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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
As you might suspect from me noting it here, I think the complete dependence that many teams have developed on the three has to be part of it. There's always exceptions and even moreso in limited samples like this one but typically teams don't shoot the three as well as they shoot the two. But there's quite a few teams that are shooting close to half of their total shots from out there, it has to drive total FG% down. Granted, watching Tennessee persist at it all season is influencing my perception of the problem (and they're pretty much the poster children for it) but it has to be a pretty decent impact for a lot of teams. I understand why teams do it, you can't just shoot twos when the other guy keeps hitting threes and "4 of 10 from 3 is the same number of points as 6 of 10 from 2" and all that but it does make for more missed shots.
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I think the same could be said for all of basketball. The NBA has a lot of teams/players that shoot way too many 3's. Even stars like Lebron are chucking up 4-5 3's a game when they are not good 3-point shooters.