#3ptshooting

[raulgranadoss]

#3ptShooting 🏀 #DroneFootage 🤓 #FisheyeLens #HolystoneDrone #Autopilot https://www.instagram.com/p/BvIkPWWH1KH_-eImhzRP-fjTVYDz_ig47MTzhs0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ey7oz2959h52

[prodbyrickb]

Look at dat #FlickOfDaWrist. #SundayService x #3ptShoots (10×5) (at Poinsettia Recreation Center)

[stag28]

"It’s easy to get swept up in the narrative that 3-point shooting has been long-undervalued and that smart sharpshooters are finally taking over the NBA. Teams that shot the most and the best from beyond the arc last year dominated like never before. The correlation between a team’s rate of attempting threes and its winning percentage was the highest it has ever been (.47). [..] the midrange game — which has historically been a strong indicator of success in the NBA — might still be important once defenses adjust to the new offensive math and a new equilibrium is reached. But Curry kills all that. Curry isn’t a product of the math; he’s so good that he has his own math. Indeed, the math is so far in Curry’s favor that the Warriors — and even basketball in general — may not fully understand what they have yet. [..] The deeper you dive into the data, the more you realize that Curry isn’t just a deadly efficient shooter, but he’s also virtually immune to burden. As he has been asked to produce more and more, he hasn’t gotten any less efficient. [..] the data doesn’t show even the tiniest hint that Curry is anywhere near his limits yet. [..] Curry is making his 2014-15 MVP season seem practically pedestrian. Curry is playing better in a number of ways — among other things, he is on pace to set career highs in stealing and rebounding, and he has his best defensive rating to date. He is also hitting a career high in shot attempts per 100 possessions (29.0 this year vs. 25.1 last year) and 3-point attempts per 100 possessions (15.5 this year vs. 12.1 last year). Most importantly, even though he’s taking all these extra shots, his shooting efficiency has gone up! [..] Some shots are better than others. Sometimes a defense breaks down and leaves a player an open look, and sometimes the clock runs down and a player has to heave up a prayer despite being tightly defended. A good offensive scheme is one that generates a lot of good shots. But of course this is relative to who takes them [..] how good is Curry at bad shots? Very, very good. [..] Curry shoots threes about as well with a defender 2 to 4 feet away (classified as “tight” by NBA.com) as an average NBA shooter does with the nearest defender 12 feet away. [..] aside from the rare smothering, Curry seems fairly immune to defense [..] if Golden State could replace its entire offense with just the bottom quartile of Stephen Curry’s 3-point attempts — without him ever being fouled and with them never collecting an offensive rebound — they would have the best offense in NBA history by a wide margin. [..] We normally expect a flat to negative relationship between these two variables: Players with a small burden are more selective and tend to be “sharpshooters” taking wide-open threes and such, while high-volume shooters have to do the dirty work of taking shots that aren’t open and aren’t easy but are better than nothing. Incidentally, this is one reason why some great players with heavy shooting burdens may appear less valuable than they are: If they’re forced to take all the bad shots, they could be doing better on those than average but still have low efficiency. With Curry, we have no such problem [..] Curry demolishes the trend by taking an absurd number of shots efficiently. [..] being able to play a very fast-paced offense when necessary (such as Curry taking quick threes early in the clock) allows them to extend the game as much as possible when they’re behind, just as being able to play a slow-paced offense (such as holding the ball unless you have a clear shot and then letting Curry shoot under pressure) is valuable for shortening the game when they’re ahead. [..] Curry has taken on additional shot-making responsibilities throughout his career, yet his true shooting percentage has been getting better and BETTER. [..] Curry comes only in shades of good, better and best [..] when considering Curry’s potential, [..] Rodman is perhaps an even more important precedent than Chamberlain or Michael Jordan. Rodman came into the league as a reasonably well-rounded player but had an incredible talent for rebounding. As years went by, his teams leaned on this skill more and more. He took on fewer and fewer offensive responsibilities, and he started gathering larger and larger shares of his team’s rebounds. In the 1993-94 season, he gathered nearly 29.7 percent of all available rebounds — at the time, the highest by any other player was Moses Malone, with 23.4 percent in 1976-77. [..] fully exploiting a game-breaking skill can lead to unthinkable results. [..] Curry himself is a microcosm of the revolution that we’ve already seen. Just as the math suggests that good midrange jump shots should often be exchanged for worse 3-pointers if possible, so the math suggests that good non-Curry shots should be exchanged for worse Curry shots."

[therudegentleman]

Bombs over Baghdad #3PtShooting #HoopsForHope #BeatCancer

[jerrster]

Playing Ball at JH with @jusswetruss my deadly,lethal,3 ball..... Novakaine!!!! #lethal #basketball #3ptshooting (Taken with instagram)

[jerrster]

Eyyoooo my cousin twice removed Novak makin the sports headlines!!!! Leggggoooo #3ptshooting #knicksnation (Taken with instagram)