The three-pointers are coming! The three-pointers are coming! The NBA’s three-point revolution may not have the same geopolitical implications that the American revolution once did. Nonetheless, it’s had a widespread, sweeping impact on basketball.
All around the globe, young men and women are launching three-pointers from a range that the NBA’s past stars would only have shot from with a second left on the shot clock.
The impetus for the league’s revolution doesn’t rest on any complicated logic.
Three is more than two. With that simple math in mind, NBA teams launched more threes than they have at any point in the history of the NBA.
Of course, that means that teams target players who hit them at a high rate. Philadelphia 76er Matisse Thybulle, for all of his defensive prowess, does not do that.
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On the other hand, New York Knick Cam Reddish has fared better in that area despite other flaws in his game.
Here’s a deal that finds the two switching sides this summer.
