J. Kyle Mann

Who has taken the biggest jump in the league?

It might be Wemby.

Baylor Shireman?

I'm sorry for the Baylor Shireman erasure.

The number of Celtics who have just become oddly relevant, I'm not equipped to deal with it this time.

I'm sorry.

This has been kind of in the air stewing for a minute now.

Yeah.

Can you make heads or tails of it?

Do you have any grand unifying theory on the state of three-point shooting?

I mean, I think a lot of that stuff isn't mutually exclusive.

Like the version of Smash Mouth basketball that is played in 2026 still involves a lot of three-point shooting.

And if you're going to maximize the possession game, a lot of those teams also still take a lot of threes.

And so it's one of these things where I think you nailed it that anytime there's like a big strategic shift, there's a period of catch up.

And in that window, the teams that dominate are the ones that understand the value of the new thing.

There was clearly a period of time where more teams understood how useful three-point shooting was, and some teams didn't.

And the teams in the former category just had an enormous edge.

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.