After nailing two shots from beyond the arc against the Spurs, Draymond Green is making three-pointers at his highest rate since 2017.
Contrary to the Golden State Warriors stumbling in their past two games, the team’s playing their best brand of basketball in the 2019-20 season. Over their last six games, Golden State has registered four wins, and they only dropped the past set to the San Antonio Spurs in late overtime finish with a limited roster due to injury.
Over their recent uptick in play, every part of the team’s game has grown. Golden State’s defense is playing better, they have some depth for the first time all season, but they’re still finding a way to replace Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson’s shooting appeal.
While that’s a tough task to conquer for anyone, one unlikely Warrior has been heating up from three-point range over his last four games.
Former Defensive Player of the Year, Draymond Green has hit multiple three-pointers for the first time since the 2017 NBA Playoffs. Green didn’t have multi-three point efforts across four consecutive games in all of the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons.
Green’s last four-game swing making multiple threes, lasted from game three of the opening round of the Western Conference playoffs in Portland to game two of round two versus the Utah Jazz. Green made 14 3-pointers on 53.8 percent from beyond the arc in that span.
Green’s hit two shots from beyond the arc in each of his last four games, starting with the Warriors Christmas day victory over the Houston Rockets. Green’s 3-pointers during the Holiday-tilt each came at dramatic moments in the game, swing momentum in Golden State’s favor.
Green’s second three on Christmas day felt like the final dagger the Warriors needed to complete their upset win, not to mention, the former All-Star lit the Chase Center crowd into a frenzy.
Green’s followed up his 20-point Christmas day performance, with four straight double-digit scoring nights, shooting 6-of-20 from beyond the arc in that span.
It’s no secret the Warriors are a better team when Green’s able to step out and knock a long-distance shot, Golden State has won three of its nine games when the Michigan State Spartan product can hit a three.
Green will have an opportunity to build on his hot three-point shooting in 2020, when the Warriors play Minnesota for their first game in the new decade.
