Milwaukee Bucks Player of the Week (Apr. 3rd – Apr. 9th)
Milwaukee Bucks Player of the Week Rankings
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- Jabari Parker
- Miles Plumlee
The former Duke Blue Devil played in all three games this week and averaged 38.0 minutes, 20.3 points (on 41.4 percent shooting), 6.0 rebounds, and 2.7 assists. He was second on the Bucks in points, tied for third in rebounds, and fourth in assists.
Jabari Parker falls into the second spot in the player of the week rankings by default. There was no player on the team who could even come close to challenging his position in the rankings even though this was an average week for Parker.
Offensively, Parker was solid. He scored at a nice clip and gave his team consistent offense in all three games this week. He did not score less than 18 points in any single game. When a young player scores that well against three good teams it says something about what kind of offensive weapon he could be in this league in the future.
Jabari’s offense was strong even though his jump shot was not falling. He attempted five three-point attempts this week and missed all of them. Parker only made 19.6 percent of the shots he attempted five feet away from the hoop or further. All together that is a really poor shooting week.
When his jumper is not falling, Parker has the ability and the intelligence to realize he is better off just attacking the basket. Parker took a significant majority of his shot attempts this week from inside five feet. He made 62.1 percent of those shots.
When you put his shooting numbers together it averages out to 41.4 percent shooting from the field. That is not that bad of a percentage. So far through his short career Parker knows where his bread is buttered, so to speak, on offense. He knows he is excellent at getting to the hoop and scoring. As his jump shot develops and he gains more and more shooting confidence his scoring potential is going to grow by leaps and bounds.
When Parker decides to attack the hoop he also earns a lot of free throw attempts. This week he led the Bucks in free throw attempts with 6.3 per game. Unfortunately, he did not connect on as many as he sometimes can, making a measly 68.4 percent. Beyond the subpar free throw percentage though he did a nice job getting to the charity stripe.
Only 13 NBA players averaged at least six free throw attempts per game in their last three. Of those players Andrew Wiggins and Jabari Parker were the youngest, at 21 years old. It is crazy to see how well Jabari got to the free throw line, with respect to other NBA players this week, when teams had no reason to respect his jump shot.
Jabari was a solid rebounder this week. He obtained just under 10 percent of the available rebounds when he was on the floor. Not a spectacular figure but not a poor figure either. Jabari is a solid rebounder. If he can get better and more consistent at rebounding throughout the course of next season and beyond it will do wonders for his overall game.
Jabari played really well on offense and that was about it. That was enough, however, to earn him the second spot in the player of the week rankings. The Milwaukee Bucks should feel very good that they have Jabari Parker. He is going to become a really special offensive player soon.
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