(11-15-2022, 12:05 AM)mvossman Wrote: As for Kidd, he was shooting roughly 35 to 36% for a couple years before he went to Dallas. That 46 your quoting was a 29 game sample on less than 3 attempts a game. Small sample. He did raise his percentage to low 40s for the next two seasons before he dropped back down to mid 30s. That's maybe a 6% jump, huge for a player at his age, but nowhere near the 13% jump Din would have to be taking to suddenly become a 46% shooter.
Your insistent doom-and-gloom on this is not well founded at all.
SD shot almost 41 on 3s in Dallas last season. The way he was used, and the shots he was getting (combined with the shots he didn't have to force) compared to team situations for him previously changed the context for him. The workload changed also, and the players around him. Getting better looks, and in better situations, makes a difference.
I suspect he worked on skills this summer to complement the new paradigm. Why wouldn't he? And why wouldn't that work pay off?
This season, his percentages so far are UP, not down. I think it far more likely that SD is who the numbers are saying he is, than the idea he is eternally confined to the mediocre results that resulted from other team contexts. And by the way, whether or not he stays at 46% is not a defining line - the issue is really whether he can be a legit 3 point threat here, or someone whose 3 pt shot can be ignored as was the case on prior teams.