When he holds the ball longer, he’s shooting just 38.5 percent. As The Athletic’s Seth Partnow noted before Game 4, Adebayo is shooting 65.9 percent this postseason when firing within two seconds of receiving a pass or grabbing an offensive rebound. And Adebayo, for all his prodigious two-way talents, is much better at creating open looks for others than himself. In the regular season, Butler and Adebayo combined to make just 0.5 3s per game in the playoffs, they’re at 0.8, all from Butler.īutler is passive at times for an ostensible lead option, taking single-digit shot attempts three times this postseason. The Heat’s two best players aren’t able to stretch the floor-a spacing disaster in the modern game if they aren’t surrounded by knockdown shooters like Crowder, Duncan Robinson, and rookie sensation Tyler Herro.
Given Miami’s personnel, this sort of offensive distribution is necessary. Scoring Distribution for Heat Conference Finalists Heat Team A little extra 3-point threat goes a long way in the modern NBA.
Most elite guards are closer to the mid-30s, where Murray resides the median for that 20-guard group-of which Murray, never an All-Star, is not a part-is 35.8 percent accuracy, precisely Murray’s career mark.īut if Murray wants to become the kind of player who warps opposing defenses by virtue of his own inescapable gravity, and if he aims to create a perpetual advantage on the offensive end by teaming with Nikola Jokic, this playoff run is a worthy, necessary step. In the past three seasons, 20 guards have been All-Stars, and Curry and Thompson are the only members of that group who are 40 percent 3-point shooters in their careers. That’s not an easy task for guards who have to take difficult shots and create much of their own offense. Murray won’t make half his long-range attempts going forward because nobody can stay that hot for long, but he will still raise his long-term ceiling significantly if he can boost his accuracy well above the average rate at which he’s hovered so far in his career. The need-to-know outcomes, analysis, and esoterica from Orlando This postseason, he’s up to 47.7 percent-a smidge away from the most accurate high-volume playoff campaign in league history.īubble Blog: Your NBA Playoff Tracker Getty Images/Ringer illustration In his regular-season career, the Nuggets guard is only a 35.8 percent 3-point shooter, and he hit just 33.7 percent in the playoffs last season. (After all, Curry took a whole lot of 3s, too.) At just 23 years old, Murray is also canning his 3-point attempts with frightening accuracy, even as he takes most of them as pull-ups rather than easier catch-and-shoot opportunities. In the first two rounds, Murray had 14 games to make 3-pointers, while Jae Crowder-who’s making almost as many per game as Murray in this postseason-had only nine games.īut that’s only a minor caveat.
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Now, that designation comes with a caveat: We’re looking at total 3-point makes, so Denver’s perpetually long series gives Murray an advantage.
With at least two games left to play, Murray should easily pass Smith for the top spot in league history for a player not named Curry or Thompson. The leaderboard for most 3-point makes in a single postseason is unsurprisingly populated by two names at the top:ġ0. The NBA Mid-Playoffs Survey Big Men Have Two Paths in Today’s NBA: Be Special or Be a Specialist Tyler Herro Has Arrived-Way, Way Ahead of Schedule Denver: Jamal Murray’s Climb Up Yet Another Leaderboard
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