The Spurs currently rank 29th in three-pointers attempted and lead the league by a mile in attempts from midrange, thanks to a throwback triptych of LaMarcus Aldridge, DeMar DeRozan and Rudy Gay. It’s a stylistic choice that many observers of the league would not only consider outdated but objectively flawed in a new NBA.
“The midrange is dead,” proclaimed former Spurs analytics expert Kirk Goldsberry.
The Spurs are falling behind the rest of the NBA, wrote SBNation’s Kristian Winfield.
“It’s one thing to coach to your personnel,” Zach Lowe said in a recent episode of the Lowe Post podcast when touching on San Antonio’s low volume of threes and attempts at the rim.