LeMelo is shameless. lmao

Trey Murphy holy smokes

Trey Murphy would be so so so good for any good team

What a weird year for Derrick White.

Under 30 feet: 32.4%

Over 30 feet: 36.6%

And yes while the sample size is a huge differece, he still took a bunch.

The fact you actually have to guard the PP end of period heave is so goddamn funny to me.

So 4 out of 10 players on this list hit 30 footers with enough consistently it can be considered a good shot for them to take and another 2 on the borderline.

Then you got whatever the fuck LaMelo is doing.

Derrick White the next Steph confirmed

If Desmond Bane went for 5 firsts then Trey Murphy deserves to get like 7 at this point

My Lawd trey Murphy 

How does Reed have the green light to shoot so many 30 footers

The reason for 2 Suns on that list is it felt like their offense at times was just lost and they would toss it to Allen or Royce with 2 seconds left to just chuck a shot at the rim. Dont really blame them taking the shots or the low %

All of prichards were full court heaves

Charlotte Hornets = Chino Hills

LaMelo did whatever the fuck he wanted lmao

LaMelo is the prototype of “not a winning player.”

Ant gonna scream for a trade by the deadline 🤣

My biggest concern with Ball is his bad efficiency.

Reed Shepard is not an NBA player holy crap

21.3% … which is also apparently the maximum % of functioning brain cells in LaMelo’s head at any given time

Reed Sheppard needs belt

You hear a lot of comments like, “30 feet used to be considered a bad shot, now it’s part of the game”

But these stats show that it’s basically still a really bad shot.

6 out of 10 of these players should never been shooting from 30+ feet based on these percentages. 3 are borderline. Murphy is the only one who definitively makes a positive contribution shooting from 30+ feet. 

The way Maxey gets to the rim, 35% from out there makes him even more dangerous on tight close outs.

I get the sense that Suns offense bogged down a lot last season

Melo shooting 80 of those is exactly the kind of person he is. And also, can someone free Trey - wasting his years in NOLA

These stats, like many other stats touted by analytics fans, lack context.

If most of these shots were taken just before the shot clock ran out, then at that point in the possession it’s a choice between a 30+ foot shot and no shot at all, so if there’s a problem it’s a team failure to get a better shot earlier in the possession, and not a player failure for taking the shot.

OTOH, if all of these 30+ foot shots were taken with 10+ seconds left on the shot clock, that’s bad offense for anyone shooting under 30% from that range.

So more context would have to be supplied for these statistics to be meaningful.

Damn, I knew Allen chucked it up from deep but I also wasn’t expecting O’Neal to be on that list, as well.

Trey!! 😲😲😲

prichard, the dribbling guy, is insame

my math no good but this translates to 16 makes for lamelo and 14-15 makes for trey on less than half as many tries/possessions.

lamelo makes 40M trey makes 28M

From his highlights I’m surprised Tre Johnson isn’t on here lmao

LaMelo Ball = Daryl Drain

Tbf samples sizes for all others are pretty small lol if Trey missed 1 more 3 his percentage drops 3% 

I’m pretty sure Lamelo won’t be doing this on the Wolves, he has never been on a team that good who can actually win.

It’s hard to judge Lamelo when we have only seen him on a tanking team, things like this might literally be asked for by the coach to increase loses without looking like the team is actually throwing games, just helping increase the odds to lose. No one thinks twice about a guy like Lamelo shooting shots like this so the league couldn’t call them out for throwing.

For injury issues it’s also incredibly likely they sit him out longer and more often than he actually needs to be in order for them to keep losing games, we will have to see his health on the Wolves to really judge him.

oh lord i need trey murphy so bad

Trey Murphy: 37 (40.5%)

Trey Murphy come to the Spurs pls

Curry still god tier

I feel like 30-40 feet would be a more telling number.