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Originally Posted by mcb33f
i think there's plenty of scope for boston to improve kyrie's effectiveness, basically changing his shot distribution so he's shooting more off the ball should do plenty to earn him and brad well deserved praise. in particular, kyrie is a really good 3pt shooter who doesn't shoot enough of them, his attempts could go up by 20-30% imo
There is a decent chance they go up by more.
IT had 5.2 3PA per 36 minutes in Sacramento, 7.8 as a Celtic, so his attempts went up by 50%. And he had 9.1 his second season in Boston.
Irving had 5.2 3PA per 36 minutes in Cleveland.
Some of IT's increase just comes from taking more shots, but the percentage of his shots that were from behind the arc went from 36.2% to 39.8%. Irving has taken 28.6% of his shots from three-point range for his career. That number has been increasing, so he was at 31.1% last season.
One interesting thing about Irving is how his eFG cratered in the 4th quarter last season. Here is how it was split last season by quarter: .548/.551/.547/.468. How much of that was caused by being next to Lebron or by bad coaching and how much was caused by Kyrie's flaws as a player? How much was due to randomness?