Last night, the rest of the league woke up to what Rip City has known for a while: Portland Trail Blazer Damian Lillard is a bad man, and Kirk Goldberry of ESPN confirms that in an analysis of the buzzer beater. Post-game, Paul George of the Oklahoma City Thunder said that Lillard had made a “bad, bad shot.” Goldberry breaks down Lillard’s 37-foot shot to argue otherwise.
As a whole, the league made just 25.9 percent of shots from that distance, so it’s fair to say that for most dudes, shots from that range aren’t very “good.