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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 10:03 am    Post subject: It’s good to finally have a team that knows how to make the 3

It seems like it’s been forever that we have had a team that can knock down 3pt shots, Monk/Bradley/Ellington/Carmelo are all reliable 3pt shooters and we still haven’t seen what Ariza and Nunn/THT can do beyond the arc, all this early season drama about the team not being good enough but if you really look at it we are in a position to have a really good team when it all starts to click.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 10:12 am    Post subject:

Most of them are streaky shooters. I wouldn’t consider anyone really a lights out shooter. In any case, as long as we about ~40% from 3 collectively, they would be huge.

The bigger problem is defense. Doesn’t matter if you make 3’s if you give up 120 points a game like this lakers team does every night
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 10:12 am    Post subject:

And if Bron keeps it up and AD finds his bubble touch...
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 10:13 am    Post subject:

and we know how Bron works with shooters,
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 10:14 am    Post subject:

They are up a made 3 over last season, that is a good trend. But they are still 17th in the league.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 10:16 am    Post subject:

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Most of them are streaky shooters. I wouldn’t consider anyone really a lights out shooter. In any case, as long as we about ~40% from 3 collectively, they would be huge.

The bigger problem is defense. Doesn’t matter if you make 3’s if you give up 120 points a game like this lakers team does every night


Ellington isn’t considered a streaky shooter he’s been a reliable 3pt shooter for most of his 3pt career, Monk can do the same but Vogel needs to find a way to get him minutes when everyone returns from injury.


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 10:18 am    Post subject:

Can you believe that was a concern before the season started?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 10:18 am    Post subject:

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They are up a made 3 over last season, that is a good trend. But they are still 17th in the league.

lebron, AD taking too many of them. also Russ and Baze
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 10:48 am    Post subject:

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They are up a made 3 over last season, that is a good trend. But they are still 17th in the league.

in made 3s? they're 6th in percentage
https://www.teamrankings.com/nba/stat/three-point-pct
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 10:59 am    Post subject:

I forgot to mention Austin Reaves that’s how deep we are when it comes to making 3pt shots... it’s a breathe of fresh air for all of us.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 11:20 am    Post subject:

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I forgot to mention Austin Reaves that’s how deep we are when it comes to making 3pt shots... it’s a breathe of fresh air for all of us.

Nunn is at 37% range which is pretty decent.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 11:21 am    Post subject:

Carmelo averaging 17.2 PPG on 50.0% from three-- higher than his overall FG percentage of 49.3%. Insanely efficient for a guy who spent most of his career as a low efficiency volume scorer.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/anthoca01.html
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 11:25 am    Post subject:

mad55557777 wrote:
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I forgot to mention Austin Reaves that’s how deep we are when it comes to making 3pt shots... it’s a breathe of fresh air for all of us.

Nunn is at 37% range which is pretty decent.


Ariza can end up being a solid 3pt shooter as well, he’s gonna get A LOT of open looks from Westbrook and LeBron, I don’t know about you guys but if this team figures it out, it’s gonna be very exciting.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 11:25 am    Post subject: Re: It’s good to finally have a team that knows how to make the 3

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It seems like it’s been forever that we have had a team that can knock down 3pt shots, Monk/Bradley/Ellington/Carmelo are all reliable 3pt shooters and we still haven’t seen what Ariza and Nunn/THT can do beyond the arc, all this early season drama about the team not being good enough but if you really look at it we are in a position to have a really good team when it all starts to click.


Right now, we are shooting 3s at a high percentage. However, we take far fewer 3s as a percentage of our overall shots than most other teams.

That, our poor free-throw shooting, and our propensity for turnovers are contributing to us being only #21 out of 30 teams in offense. So there's a lot to work on.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 11:32 am    Post subject:

Inspector Gadget wrote:
I forgot to mention Austin Reaves that’s how deep we are when it comes to making 3pt shots... it’s a breathe of fresh air for all of us.


Reaves is only shooting 32% from threes.

Right now, our good 3-point shooting is mostly because Carmelo and Bradley are shooting so well. They are both well above their career averages, so I expect they will level off at some point.

Hopefully, the guys who are now shooting poorly will improve and make up for them when/if they return to their career norms.
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I forgot to mention Austin Reaves that’s how deep we are when it comes to making 3pt shots... it’s a breathe of fresh air for all of us.


Reaves is only shooting 32% from threes.

Right now, our good 3-point shooting is mostly because Carmelo and Bradley are shooting so well. They are both well above their career averages, so I expect they will level off at some point.

Hopefully, the guys who are now shooting poorly will improve and make up for them when/if they return to their career norms.


Reaves hasn’t really taken a lot of 3pt attempts once he starts getting more comfortable his 3pt % will Improve.
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I forgot to mention Austin Reaves that’s how deep we are when it comes to making 3pt shots... it’s a breathe of fresh air for all of us.


Reaves is only shooting 32% from threes.

Right now, our good 3-point shooting is mostly because Carmelo and Bradley are shooting so well. They are both well above their career averages, so I expect they will level off at some point.

Hopefully, the guys who are now shooting poorly will improve and make up for them when/if they return to their career norms.


Reaves hasn’t really taken a lot of 3pt attempts once he starts getting more comfortable his 3pt % will Improve.


We'll see. He came into college with a reputation as a shooter and shot 45% from three-point land his first two years at Witchita, but then he transferred to Oklahoma and only shot 28% in two season there for three-pointers.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 12:52 pm    Post subject:

When was the last time we had a good 3pt shooting team
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 1:07 pm    Post subject:

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When was the last time we had a good 3pt shooting team


It’s been a while, I’m not sure if the Kobe/Pau championship teams were good at shooting 3’s but that’s probably the only time we had a good shooting team, this is probably the first time in a long time we have a team loaded with relevant 3pt shooters.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 2:40 pm    Post subject:

levon wrote:
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They are up a made 3 over last season, that is a good trend. But they are still 17th in the league.

in made 3s? they're 6th in percentage
https://www.teamrankings.com/nba/stat/three-point-pct


Yes, I should have added made 3’s per game. Percentage doesn’t mean much, would you rather have 50% at 2 per game or 33% at 20 per game?
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2021 5:55 am    Post subject:

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They are up a made 3 over last season, that is a good trend. But they are still 17th in the league.

in made 3s? they're 6th in percentage
https://www.teamrankings.com/nba/stat/three-point-pct


Yes, I should have added made 3’s per game. Percentage doesn’t mean much, would you rather have 50% at 2 per game or 33% at 20 per game?


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2021 5:55 pm    Post subject:

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When was the last time we had a good 3pt shooting team

I've been a Lakers fan since I was a little kid in the 90s, and I can't remember us ever being an elite or near-elite 3-point shooting team.

We're 6th right now in 3-pt shooting %. If that's not elite, it's pretty close.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2021 6:03 pm    Post subject:

danzag wrote:
venturalakersfan wrote:
levon wrote:
venturalakersfan wrote:
They are up a made 3 over last season, that is a good trend. But they are still 17th in the league.

in made 3s? they're 6th in percentage
https://www.teamrankings.com/nba/stat/three-point-pct


Yes, I should have added made 3’s per game. Percentage doesn’t mean much, would you rather have 50% at 2 per game or 33% at 20 per game?




Exact same reaction.....
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danzag wrote:
venturalakersfan wrote:
levon wrote:
venturalakersfan wrote:
They are up a made 3 over last season, that is a good trend. But they are still 17th in the league.

in made 3s? they're 6th in percentage
https://www.teamrankings.com/nba/stat/three-point-pct


Yes, I should have added made 3’s per game. Percentage doesn’t mean much, would you rather have 50% at 2 per game or 33% at 20 per game?




So it is your belief that you win games with percentages, not points scored? The final 4 teams in the playoffs last season were all in the top 5 in 3 pointers made, it is a reflection on winning. The Lakers are 17th in 3’s made per game, about where they were last season. They are making about one more 3 per game.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2021 6:15 pm    Post subject:

venturalakersfan wrote:
danzag wrote:
venturalakersfan wrote:
levon wrote:
venturalakersfan wrote:
They are up a made 3 over last season, that is a good trend. But they are still 17th in the league.

in made 3s? they're 6th in percentage
https://www.teamrankings.com/nba/stat/three-point-pct


Yes, I should have added made 3’s per game. Percentage doesn’t mean much, would you rather have 50% at 2 per game or 33% at 20 per game?




So it is your belief that you win games with percentages, not points scored? The final 4 teams in the playoffs last season were all in the top 5 in 3 pointers made, it is a reflection on winning. The Lakers are 17th in 3’s made per game, about where they were last season. They are making about one more 3 per game.


The Lakers are not an all out 3pt shooting team. All 3 of our Superstars are best in the paint by far so as long as they're shooting a good percentage on a fair amount of 3's i'll be ecstatic with it. Unless AD becomes bubble AD and Bron is going for 40% as a 3pt shooter I highly doubt we'll be top 5 regardless this or next year.
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