In the All-Star Weekend three-point contest, Towns scored 29 points in the final, successfully winning the championship, becoming the second big man to win the three-point contest after Luck. Between Towns and Love, the three-point contest winners are all defenders. It is worth mentioning that Towns and Love are also Timberwolves players.
In general, defender players have better projection ability than interior players, and the same is true when it comes to three-point shooting. Interior players are mainly attacking on the inside, so the projection ability is very general, the projection range is at most to the middle and long distance, and there are very few interior players who can shoot three points.
Of course, as the three-point trend has become a trend, the inside players have also begun to shoot three points, and many interior players have a good three-pointer, such as Towns, Embiid and Jokic, the three major centers have three-point ability, and Towns is the best of them.
This season, Towns has averaged more than two three-pointers per game and a three-point shooting rate of 41%, which is already a good shooter, and many defender players do not necessarily have such a level.
So far in his career, Towns has averaged 4.1 three-pointers per game, hitting 1.6 goals and shooting 39.6 percent from three-point range, the highest of any center (averaging three three-pointers per game in at least one season).
It is worth mentioning that even Ray Allen, as a top three-point shooter, has only 40% of his career three-point shooting rate, and It is indeed very rare for Towns, as a center, to maintain such a high three-point shooting rate, compared with Ray Allen, he can be said to be the most capable of shooting three-pointers among all center players, so it is not surprising that he has become the champion of the three-point contest.