J. Kyle Mann

Everyone has caught up to the point that the 2015 Warriors, who ostensibly started the three-point revolution, would be dead last in three-point rate this year.

Everyone is shooting at that level or more in terms of frequency now.

I think where we are now, it's not three-point attempts that make you a good offense.

It's not even three-point percentage that makes you a good offense.

It's do you have the credible spacing to do other stuff with it?

If you have enough shooters on the floor, if you have that space to run high-functioning offense, that's the prerequisite.

It's not really about how many threes you get up.

It's like, do your guys have to be guarded?

And that's where you see kind of like the magnifying glass, or I guess microscope kind of case studies, right?

It's like three-point shooting on the whole,

may not be the thing that is driving winning and losing at the level that it was eight years ago.

But can Alex Caruso hit enough threes in this crucial moment?

Can Steph Castle hit enough threes in this crucial moment?

It still determines which players, supporting and otherwise, can stay on the floor in those games.

I also think that those players are coming into the league having been in a basketball ecosystem that has been so shooting heavy.

for some of the formative years of their developmental careers.

And so it's not really an accident, right?

That those guys had the downhill runway that they've had and have become great drivers because they've grown up with all the shooting.

This is our time.

Justin can't stop us.