In mid-December 2015, I wrote a long piece about then-Wolves guard Ricky Rubio being, at least by one statistical measure, the worst shooter in modern NBA history.
At that point in his career, Rubio had the worst field-goal percentage (36.5) of any player in the NBA who had played more than 5,000 minutes since the adoption of the three-point shot in 1979-80.
But Rubio’s game was as full of dualities and complexities as anyone in recent Timberwolves memory. To underscore that: Just a couple weeks after that piece was published, Rubio embarked on one of the strangest, most impressive streaks of shooting in NBA history.