With that, the percentages have not fallen. Unlike when Allen was playing his high school ball in South Carolina, or his college ball at UConn, every player now grows up practicing threes - including big men. And they’re not, because guys grew up watching and imitating Ray Allen and others. It’s great to see so many shooters, but I don’t want to see bad percentages.”Ĭoaches don’t want to see bad percentages, either. “I don’t want it to go completely in that direction – I like to see the big men in the game, to play in the post and play inside-out every now and then. But early in my career, a lot of my coaches – if you took the 3 – were like, ‘You don’t have to settle. “And if we had a good shot available, we’d always take it. “When George Karl came in, we played faster,” Allen said. Speaking to Steve Aschburner of NBA.com, Allen talked about the change and if the pendulum has swung too far. It’s part of the reason that in a week he will be a member of the basketball Hall of Fame. And more shots didn’t mean worse shots, teams averaged 36 percent from three in 1996, 36.2 percent last season.Īllen was part of that evolution in thinking, he left the game with 2,973 made threes, the most in NBA history. That’s 24 more threes a game total, on average, then when Allen entered the league. Last season, teams averaged 29 threes a game, 33.8 percent of their shot attempts. In 1996, when Ray Allen entered the NBA, the average team took 16.8 three pointers per game, and it made up 21.2 percent of their shots.
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