THJ for the bench!

[Kammrath]

He was an elite shooter for the 19/20 regular season. He fell off in the bubble and in the playoffs. It's possible the fall off was environment based and not regression. A 3 game sample size, for me, is not enough to consider last season an anomaly. 

So I was not speaking to shot selection and the label of "chucker" just that I think calling him a "40% three point shooter" is speaking to only one season worth of data (and really about 60 games worth of data if you don't include the bubble). 

Here are THJ's catch and shoot (what we would ALL say is the shot he should be taking most) numbers for 3P%:

2020: 42.1%
2019: 32.3%
2018: 34.2%
2017: 36.1%
2016: 35.3%
2015: 35.2%

So FIVE full seasons before last year was 34.6% on catch and shoot threes. Then last year he jumped to 42.1% or 7.5% (!) from his career average.

My point? I want to see MORE data before concluding that last year was anything more than an aberration, especially because his last 140 attempts has been more in line with the five seasons before last.  


Note: In case anyone is wondering through all of these seasons he is basically shooting the same amount of open and wide-open shots, so it is not like he got a ton more open looks last year than ever before.