Los Angeles Lakers See Post-Break Rise in 3-Pointer Range Percentage

The latest news from the NBA.com’s famous reporter John Schuhmann revealed the key stats for the teams in top of the list in the upcoming league in 2018-19 seasons. As of Lost Angeles Lakers, there is improvement in the stats of this particular team in the current season. The Lakers witnessed both the highest post-All-star break increment in 3-Point shot success percentage and its biggest post-break variations in the increased percentage of 3-Pointer shot. Earlier, Lakers ranked in the bottom ten of the all team stats whereas after the break in the top 10.

The gradual change resulted them in 7.8 more points per game from beyond the arc. It favored them to score 4.6 points more in 100 possessions after the break which is much better than they did before the break. Earlier, LeBron James was the best team in 3-Point hit and achieves percentage but Las Angeles Lakers is upcoming to be a complement to it with the gradual increase and improvement in 3-Point Range. James was still the best with 344 assists in 3-Point range (average 4.2) per season with the help of 15 different teammates. The Lakers with their improved states hit the roaster of teams as with their 27^th rank after last year season it came up to 15^th rank this time. The only Lakers who made at least 10 threes after the break and are no longer on the roster are Brook Lopez (40) and Isaiah Thomas (29). Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, termed as to be the Lakers' top-seven player, saw the highest increase in 3-point percentage, shooting 42.3 percent from beyond the arc just after the break, while before the break it was just 36.1 percent. Kyle Kuzma also went from 35.8 percent before the break to 38.5 percent after the break. Both Caldwell-Pope and Kuzma also came up with an increase in the percentage of their shots that were threes pointer range.

By: Anuja Arora

Link: http://www.nba.com/article/2018/09/25/one-team-one-stat-los-angeles-lakers-3-point-shooting?collection=news