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25 shot attempts for mills. Dude thinks he's Kobe.
Well I can't sleep, so I'll address this.
Patty's job isn't to facilitate to others. His primary function is to be instant offense off the bench, and share the ball handling with Manu and Marco. Tonight, Mills wasn't very efficient shooting the ball, but without Tony and Manu playing horribly, we needed someone to get their own shot to open up the floor for everyone else. And that's exactly what Mills did. Also, he shot poorly from inside the arc , but was 6-11 from 3. If you're making that many 3s at that high of a clip, keep shooting. Off the top of my head, I don't recall bring frustrated with Mills shot selection and he never stopped the flow of the offense because he got trigger happy.
In normal circumstances, Patty is playing behind Parker and Ginobili isn't coughing it up every time he touches it, so he can play more off the ball and knock down open 3s.