[Source](https://www.nba.com/stats/players/pullup?CF=PLAYER_NAME*E*tatum&DateFrom=12/26/2023&DateTo=03/10/2024)
Over this time span if you filter to guys taking at least 5 per game (which leaves only elite volume 3pt shooters, [I mean look at the names lol](https://imgur.com/rtEA4s7)) he is 2nd in effeciency on these shots behind Harden. Tatum is at 38.9% and Harden is at 39.6%.
Pretty promising considering it’s a pretty decent sample size at 32 games and 180 total shots. If he were forcing the issue more to get his early on in games he’d be averaging 30+ and be a pretty realistic MVP candidate instead of a distant 4th/5th but I’ll take the wins lol.
If he is able to carry this shooting into the postseason we should be pretty unbeatable in the east. A big reason we struggled through rounds 2 and 3 to the finals in 22 is that Tatum wasn’t hitting these shots efficiently. 30.4% vs Milwaukee’s smothering paint defense on 6.6 attempts, 33.3% vs Miami on 3.4 attempts, which isn’t too terrible but not great either. He was randomly hot in the finals despite stinking it up otherwise, hitting 43.5% of them on 3.8 attempts.
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41.2% overall from 3pt in the last 31 games
Hopefully it carries over to the playoffs cuz I remember him shooting like shit especially against Miami last year
Our fans want him to have a Giannis shot diet
the 2022 finals always strikes me as an odd outlier, he only shot 36% from the field, but somehow shot 45% from 3
What about wide open catch and shoot 3s
https://twitter.com/DrewHanlen/status/1759662847934472540?t=3RqdvBSaZ8JJeM5URmGNmg&s=19
“His shot pocket was too high on his off dribble jumpers. We lowered it back to normal when he came to LA around Christmas.
Was shooting 29.9% off dribble 3s. Since then, shooting 38.4% off dribble 3s.”
I think from a fans perspective it’s the clutch factor in tight games against tough competition I’d like to either see improvement or a change of approach. If sinking the game winning shot is not his thing and won’t be his thing then mazulla needs to scheme around it.
The biggest thing I want from the team and Tatum very much in particular is late game pace. Tatum needs to attack. Their defense is too good to not trust it.
[pull up shoot](https://youtu.be/2c403dZ4jX8?si=jpTbRV1MqYsN5Ql_)
The doomers who were convinced he should shoot less 3s were and have always been total morons. It takes a special kind of idiot to look at Tatum, probably the best 3 level scorer in the league, and say that he should stop shooting and only drive/post up