J. Kyle Mann

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.

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,