This will certainly not reassure LeBron James, but it is not only the exteriors of the Lakers who have regularly missed the target by 3-pts since the start of the season. On the side of the Thunder, Luguentz Dort is also in great pain when it comes to finding the target, far and near.
The proof with his statistics after four matches: 25% success in shooting and 15% at 3-pts…
“He signed for the long term, so he should be there for a long time and we want him to continue to develop,” tempers Mark Daigneault for The Oklahoman. “He is a young player who can still progress. Sometimes you have to know how to go back in order to move forward better. »
This contract of 87 million dollars over five years, initialed this summer, would he have put pressure on him? His status has changed: Dort should no longer surprise or make his place but now confirm the confidence and the greenbacks placed in him.
“I saw Lu become a good shooter, whereas he was not before,” recalls Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. “He wasn’t drafted and now we all know who he is. There are ups and downs, he knows that. We must continue to work. »
The most intriguing thing about this finding is that the Thunder guard has good shots in front of him. He takes 2/3 of his shots while his defender is more than a meter away from him. It’s not a question of quality of shots, but of skill (of clumsiness in this case) in the primary sense of the term.
“We don’t want him to shoot four times at 3-pointers to shoot four times, if it’s contested shots. We want him to take 10 award-winning shots if they’re all open,” summarizes and concludes his coach.
| Luguentz Dort | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Crew | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2019-20 | OKAY | 36 | 23 | 39.4 | 29.7 | 79.2 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 6.8 |
| 2020-21 | OKAY | 52 | 30 | 38.7 | 34.3 | 74.4 | 0.7 | 2.9 | 3.6 | 1.7 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 14.0 |
| 2021-22 | OKAY | 51 | 33 | 40.4 | 33.2 | 84.3 | 0.8 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 1.7 | 2.9 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 17.2 |
| 2022-23 | OKAY | 3 | 31 | 30.0 | 20.0 | 83.3 | 2.3 | 3.0 | 5.3 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 14.3 |
| Total | 142 | 29 | 39.3 | 32.9 | 79.8 | 0.8 | 2.8 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 13.3 | |
