Cam Reddish will be unhappy on the New York Knicks

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Cam Reddish’s potential role on the New York Knicks

New York ranks fourth in the league in pick and rolls, spending 20.7 percent of their possessions in this offensive set, averaging 22.3 per game through 42 outings. Head Coach, Tom Thibodeau, has split the pick and roll possessions amongst Kemba Walker, Derrick Rose, RJ Barrett, and Evan Fournier.

These four players take up 83 percent of the team’s pick and roll possessions, as they combine to average 18.5 per game. Consequently, there are only 3.8 possessions to split amongst Immanuel Quickley, Cam Reddish, and Alec Burks.

When the team is not in pick and roll, they’re either running isolation or post-up. New York is currently eighth in the league in isolations, averaging 9.2 per game. Julius Randle has taken the lion’s share of those possessions, as he is averaging 4.8 isolations per game.

Randle has also been the focal point of the team’s post-ups, as New York averages 4 per game – 19th in the league. Randle currently accounts for 72.5 percent of those possessions, averaging 2.9 per game.

New York usually likes to have multiple players standing behind the arc when they are running these offensive sets. For instance, Barrett, Walker, Fournier, and Burks have taken at least 38 percent of their shots from behind the arc, averaging a minimum of 4.7 attempts per game.

Unfortunately for Reddish, he does not have a good track record as a three-point shooter. Reddish shot 33.3 percent during his lone season at Duke University on 7.4 shots per game.

Reddish’s struggles from behind the arc have continued in the NBA as he has a career shooting percentage of 32.9 percent on 4.5 attempts per game. Consequently, he is set up to struggle on the offensive side of the ball in New York based on their offensive structure.

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