Originally Posted by
Troublemaker
Sample size is probably a factor here. JGold only took 44 shots all of last season and only made 12 of them, and it's not hard to imagine that he just underperformed as far as making shots in that small sample. (Maybe, if he took 44 shots a million times, he averages 20 made shots, for example). Likely, JGold wasn't nearly as bad offensively as his stats (common or advanced) suggested last season. And the defense was already good.
all getting a lot of minutes.
I'm guessing he has improved some but maybe not as dramatically as small samples would suggest.
I mean, whatever the case, glad that he's a good rotation player for Duke.