For me, it’s Dame Lillard’s shooting.
I recently saw a post of Twitter asking who is the best shooter of all time not including and Steph, and just as I suspected I saw a bunch of people saying Dame.
I routinely see him put in the same category with guys like Steph, Klay, Ray Allen, Reggie Miller etc and it just blows me mind that people put him at the level.
Dame is a good shooter. An above average shooter. He is not a great shooter, nevermind an elite shooter.
He is 226th all time in 3 point percentage at .3707%
The league average is usually around 36%. So he is a slightly above average three point shooter.
I will give him credit as he is good at creating his shots and hitting difficult or deep ones, but why is it that people think he is elite?
Is it because he is known for taking deep 3s? Is it because he hit a couple of clutch threes in the playoffs?
I recently asked and someone said it’s because he won multiple 3 point contests. To me, that’s like saying Ichiro is one of the greatest power hitters of all time because he hit home runs at will in batting practice. It literally doesn’t mean anything in the context of real NBA games.
It has to be the long shots right? Because I’ve also seen people say Trae is an elite shooter but he is a below average shooter so it’s got to be the depth?
What aspect of a players game do y’all think is the most overrated???
Kinda. 3 and Ds real value on offense is gravity. Its the idea of them making a 3, rather than actually shooting it that makes them valuable cause most of the time they dont actually shoot many 3s.
What they do instead is allow for good spacing by making their defender focus on them. The catch is that when they do shoot, they need to make it at a decent rate, but their overall duty on offense is minimal at best and sometimes straight up they are just there to keep their defenders busy.
On the flip side, they are charged with defending some of their opponents best players so that the stars dont have to and can focus on actually playing offense.