The Los Angeles Lakers need better shooting from distance, and Landry Shamet can give it to them. In last season’s playoffs, Shamet quietly hit 46.7% from beyond the arc for the New York Knicks, a level of accuracy the Lakers sorely lacked.
Last season, Los Angeles shot just 35 percent from three in the postseason, landing them squarely in the middle of the pack, and that was part of the reason they got bounced in the first round by the Minnesota Timberwolves. That is not going to cut it for a team trying to make a serious run.