I feel like you're missing my point about 3-point shooting volume here. It's easy to shoot a good percentage from 3 on a few attempts per game. What really adds value is shooting a good percentage at a high volume. Look at where Love stands among the highest volume 3-point shooters last year
(can't embed images at the moment, so here's a link). The only bigs in the same neighborhood are Bertans (highly underrated player IMO), and Mirotic (whose NBA career is likely over). Maybe others will catch up in time, but they haven't yet. Put Love in a good offensive system, not the dumpster fire system we had on the Cavs last year, and he could have an enormous impact from the 3-point line.
I'm not missing your point at all. All of the guys have >5 attempts per 36. Some have 6+, some 7+
I did not include players like Meyers Leonard who shoot much less and have much higher 3pt percentage.
The difference to me between 5.5 to 6.5-7 in Love's case is insignificant.
Some players from this list will surely shoot much more 3's this season like Porzingis, Markannen even. And some that are not listed here will probably do much better in that area in the upcoming season.
What adds value to shooting volume is difficulty of shot(efficiency being guard tightly, open, wide open), and play type efficiency as well as frequency.
One player can shoot a lot of open 3's and look like a volume shooter(role players on GSW come to mind), but he does not have as much value as player like Mirotic for example who bombs away 3's on so many playtypes on any team that he is on. It's deceiving just looking at 3PA. Love shoots so many wide open 3's and he does not create much offense other than catch and shoot from those situations which again, lowers his alue to me as a volume shooter.
While Love was efficient in a lot of playtypes, especially with Lebron, he is still not a good shooter coming off screens and/or only attempts them very rarely. Love does not shoot off the dribble, He does not shoot 3's as the Ball Handler,all of that lower his value as a shooter. What Love does is shoot 3's mainly as a spot up shooter with 0 dribbles and mostly when he is wide open.
Volume shooting is great when the player has good gravity in alot of playstyles and Love does not have that. He is mostly a spacer, and is gravity his limited to spot up catch and shoot off the ball that is pretty easy to defend.
I'm not saying that Love can't add volume as a shooter in hand-offs/off-screens, whatever. He just does not do that very often at all and recently when he did attempt them he was not very efficient. Love will never be able to shoot off the dribble though or be efficienct coming off screens. Love needs to be stationary.
And last thing, what was really apparent to me and quite frankly troubled me about Love is that he was not very consistent as a catch and shoot player when wide open. Especially from the corners.
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Here is the list of guys who shot 35%+ on 3's last year, and made 1.5+ per game that were listed as either a F or a C on basketball reference:
Paul George
Karl-Anthony Towns
Kawhi Leonard
Danilo Gallinari
Blake Griffin
Tobias Harris
Brook Lopez
Kevin Love
Out of those guys, only George, Love, and Harris also did it last year.
Of those three, only Love did it in 2016-17, and he also did it every other season dating back to 2011-12 (minus 12-13 when he missed almost the entire season)
Hi Derek, what's up?
Whatever you put in the filter got it wrong.
You are missing Porzingis, Bertans, Barnes, Markannen, Ingles, Marcus Morris
And I totally forgot about Brook, Kawhi, George. Brook Lopez is more dangerous than Love as a shooter right now because he can basically shoot over you. Both Kawhi and George are obviously more diverse shooters. Not even close.
Porzingis will probably shoot 6> 3P a game this season.
I think it's unfair to not include players like Bjelica and several others who are volume shooter , but playing less than 25 minutes a game.