The Los Angeles Lakers were not a good shooting team last season. Considering they shot just 35.4% from deep (21st in the league) this is not exactly breaking news to anyone who watched them, or even just looked at the NBA’s stats website for more than 30ish seconds.
What was astonishing, however, was just how bad of a shooting team the Lakers were. And not just bad, but seemingly scared. Visualize a scene for a moment: A hesitant Laker, alone behind the arc, wanting to do anything with the ball but shoot it, visibly shaken by the season-long evaporation of their jumper.