Mavs 108, Bulls 118

[SleepingHero]

Maxi 48% / 4.2 3PA
Burke 35% / 3.3 3PA
Richardson 33% / 6 3PA
Powell 33% / 0.5 3PA
Brunson 33% / 3 3PA
Johnson 33% / 1.5 3PA
THJ 33% / 8.2 3PA
DFS 27% / 5 3PA
Doncic 16% / 6.2 3PA

The Mavs lost Curry but that  doesn´t explain why the entire team except for Maxi is shooting worse than last year and well below their career averages.

Maxi Career 3pt%- 35.9, 13% up this year
Burke Career 3pt% 34.5, 0.5% up this year
Richardson Career 3pt% 36.3, 3.3% down this year
Powell Career 3pt% 29.4%, 3.9% up this year
Brunson Career 3pt%- 35.1, 2% down this year
Johnson Career 3pt%- 31%, 2% up this year
THJ Career 3pt% 35.3, 2.6% down this year
DFS Career 3pt% 32.8, 6.1% down this year
Doncic Career 3pt% 31.7, 15.6% down this year

The main things that stick out to me is that besides Maxi and Richardson, everyone on the roster has been a career below average 3pt shooter. No one is elite. To go even further, 4 of those players are nearly sub 30% for their career, which is horrible. 

Another thing is that 3 (Burke, Powell, Johnson) of those 9 players are actually shooting above their career averages, but thankfully besides Burke, they shouldn't be taking a lot of 3s anyways. 

Maxi is going to stabilize, there is no way he can sustain nearly 50% from 3 for an entire season. Luka will also stabilize, as he isn't a 16% 3pt shooter. Our main shooters, Richardson and THJ should also hopefully stabilize to their career averages, but I have less hope for THJ because if we take his entire career before he got to Dallas, he was a career 34.3% 3pt shooter. 

Basically 7 of the core 10 man rotation are pretty bad shooters. No wonder teams are just packing the paint against the Mavs and daring them to shoot. Hopefully KP can rectify some of that spacing, but one things clear to me is that we desperately need an elite shooter.