At the beginning of the season, the Lakers' overall three-point shooting rate was close to 45%. While this isn't a normal shooting percentage, it seems to me that it's a big improvement from the under-35 percent performance of the previous two seasons.
But as the game progressed, especially after the game with the Blazers, the Lakers' three-point shooting rate has dropped to 35.4%.
Finally here it comes!
I mean:
Although it cannot be said that the overall three points of the Lakers are short-lived, there are still problems after all. After all, turning over the lakers' player list, no player except Anthony and James can hit two three-pointers per game, of which James's three-pointer is less than 35%.
To some extent, the three-point problem still needs to be solved by the Lakers management. From the perspective of the game, once the overall three-point shooting rate of the team is less than 40%, the team record is 3 wins and 5 losses, it seems that the quality of the three points still has a direct impact on the team's record.
In fact, the Lakers are very much expected to get Buddy Hield this summer offseason.
Just take this season as an example.
Hield averaged 4.5 three-pointers per game, second only to Curry in the league, and even shot 41.7 percent more from three-point range than Curry.
In my opinion, hilde is comparable to Curry's presence in terms of three-point projection alone. Of course, there is definitely a gap between the two in terms of efficiency and stability, but they all have the ability to score three points.
So, from three points, I think the Lakers will lock in a sharpshooter who can rival Curry.
The first is that, as just said, the Lakers are very likely to get Hield this summer, and even made a preliminary deal with the King, but in exchange for Wei Shao at the last moment.
Based on this, it is obviously easier to restart the transaction than other transactions.
Second, Hilde is not a non-seller for the King, which further promotes the possibility of a deal for the Lakers.
Third, and in my opinion, the most important. In the case of not having many chips at this stage, it is still difficult for the Lakers to change other elite shooters. Relatively speaking, Hield's hope is the greatest, the key point is his contract of more than 20 million, but it is relatively only a single pitcher, which is more or less a bit of a garbage contract.
However, for the Lakers, this is not unacceptable, after all, from the transaction to Wei Shao, it can be seen that the Lakers are betting on this year or two. In other words, as long as Hield maintains his three-point efficiency, the Lakers will not lose.
Finally, it is precisely because of the above three points that in my opinion, the Lakers still have a good chance of getting Hield. If the team's three-pointers will not improve for some time to come, then Hield may really be wearing a Lakers jersey.