Alex Wolfe

There was a three point.

Did you hear when I said that they introduced it 79, 80 seasons?

Yeah, that's crazy.

Okay.

Okay.

So I'll start from the top.

Come on.

So the three-point shot is longer than a two-point shot.

There's a line that defines where you do it, and it's worth, as the name implies, three points instead of two points, right?

So teams for decades still ran most of their offense inside the three-point line because that was previously what was considered, like, real basketball or whatever, and that's just what teams were used to.

But...

Around 2014-15, Steph Curry's rise with the Warriors and they're getting Steve Kerr as head coach, teams finally did some math and realized that three is greater than two.

So I'll explain how this works percentages-wise, right?

So the nerdy math that has basically defined the NBA for the last decade is this.

Every possession in the NBA is dictated by the amount of points you can get per possession, right?

So possession is each time you hold the ball and bring it down the floor and try to score, right?

A good point per possession number is generally anything over one.

If you're scoring 50% of the time on a two-point shot, that's one point per possession, right?

So shooting 60% on two-point shots has generally been kind of the line considered good for shooting a two-point shot.

If you shoot 60% of the time you make it, that's considered good.