Tag: 3-point shooting

How do the best players break a shooting slump? Ask Lethal Shooter

Lethal Shooter breaks down how he helps Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown and the rest of the NBA’s best players work through a shooting slump.

What should you do when you can’t hit the broadside of a barn with your shot some days? Chris Matthews, also known as “Lethal Shooter,” has the answer. In a recent interview with the folks behind the Heat Check YouTube channel, Matthews breaks down how he helps Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown and the rest of the NBA’s best players work through a shooting slump.

He also explains the importance of tailoring workouts to individual players based on their playing style and system.  The interview also touches on Matthews’ own basketball skills, where he modestly describes himself as a catch-and-shoot player. Lethal Shooter notes that in today’s NBA, shooters who create their shots, like Damian Lillard and Stephen Curry, are considered the best.

To hear more from the Association’s most popular shooting coach, check out the clip embedded below.

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‘The reality is that I am an elite shooter,’ admits Celtics’ Al Horford

The Boston vet forward was indeed irked by a reporter’s doubtful laugh in a recent scrum.

When someone laughed in response to Boston Celtics big man Al Horford referring to himself as an elite shooter in a recent post-shootaround interview, Horford seemed irked.

It is not be clear whether Horford was joking with his original statement or with his reaction to the laughter.

What is clear: The Florida alumnus is indeed an elite shooter on the 3-ball. Horford had the second-highest 3-point rate (44.6%) in the regular season.

“I just thought it was funny,” said Horford to the Boston Globe’s Adam Himmelsbach. “It got kind of carried away. It really has carried a lot. I’m hearing from a lot of people I haven’t heard from in a while sending me things about it. It is what it is.”

Asked if he was bothered by the laugh, the Dominican forward nearly wriggled out of a direct answer before sliding it in at the last moment.

“I mean, we’re just trying to keep it light, man. … I’m excited for this opportunity that we have. And, yeah. (T)he reality is that I am (an elite shooter), said Horford. “So, that’s kind of that.”

Given the exchange seemed to spark a 5-of-7 shooting night for the Boston forward in Game 3, we hope Horford finds more perceived slights for every game of the 2023 postseason.

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Who takes the shot if your life is on the line: Larry Bird or JJ Redick?

While there may be no actual executioner there to do the deed if they guess wrong, it certainly put a different spin on an old debate.

It seems to be a personal pastime of former NBA player and current host of the “Old Man and the Three” podcast JJ Redick to get himself embroiled in conversations about the basketball abilities of past stars in the league.

Though the latest furor involving Boston Celtics Hall of Fame forward Larry Bird and his 3-point shooting abilities has died down, others ensure it continues to simmer on the back burner.

The host of the eponymous “Dan LeBatard Show” recently had his guests debate whether they would prefer Larry Legend or Mr. Redick to take the 3-point shot if their lives were on the line.

While there may be no actual executioner there to do the deed if they guess wrong, it certainly put a different spin on an increasingly tired sort of question in terms of crapping on our NBA elders.

Take a look at the clip embedded above to hear what they had to say about who they would prefer to take the shot.

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Do the Boston Celtics need a Plan B for when their 3-pointers don’t fall?

The bulk of Boston’s losses come on nights when the ball club is shooting below league average from deep.

It is hard to say the Boston Celtics need to shoot fewer 3s given the shot has lifted them among the NBA’s elite this season under new head coach Joe Mazzulla. But on nights when the Celtics can’t hit the ocean with a pebble, can their offense survive bricking shot after shot from beyond the arc?

While the Celtics do not have many losses to choose from, the trend of ice-cold shots from beyond the arc is a common thread: The bulk of Boston’s losses come on nights when the club shoots below league average from deep.

To talk over whether the Celtics ought to have a “Plan B” on nights when they can’t buy a long-distance bucket, the hosts of the CLNS Media “Vitamin Cs” podcast recently put together the clip embedded below.

Take a look for yourself, and see if you agree with their reasoning.

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Are the Boston Celtics shooting too many 3-pointers?

We all know the age-old NBA adage of “live by the 3, die by the 3.”

We all know the age-old NBA adage of “live by the 3, die by the 3.”

For the most part, the Boston Celtics have been living quite well with their reliance on the shot from beyond the arc. But at times the trey-heavy shot diet has caused the Celtics the basketball version of indigestion — something that could easily doom them in a tight playoff series.

Such was the concern among fans and analysts in the worst such example of this 3-point shooting drought that has hit Boston thus far this season. The Celtics connected on 21% of their treys against the New York Knicks in late February.

This begs the simple question of whether the Boston Celtics are shooting too many 3-point shots.

And that was asked by the hosts of the CLNS Media “Garden Report” podcast; take a look at the clip embedded above to hear what they had to say.

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Mazzulla: Celtics need to play with confidence when shots aren’t falling

Boston shoots the same number of 3-pointers in wins as in losses despite radically different shooting splits. Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla suggested it may be a matter of confidence.

The Boston Celtics are one of the most prolific shooting teams in the NBA, and the 3-point shot has been a major weapon for head coach Joe Mazzulla on the offensive end. Consistency, however, has been an issue for the Celtics.

Boston ranked second in the league in shots from 3 in the entire NBA and connects on 37.7% of shots from deep. Things get a little more troublesome for the Celts in parsing between game outcomes. The Celtics are No. 2 in shots from 3 during wins, launching 42.1 3-point attempts per contest. In those games, Boston shoots 40.5%, good for the No. 6 rank in the NBA.

Losses, however, are a different story.

Who were the greatest shooters ever (and which were Boston Celtics)?

Larry Legend made the cut of course — but who else?

Who are the greatest shooters in the history of the NBA? Or at least in the history of the league’s 3-point era?

Boston guard Chris Ford nailed the first ever long-distance shot in the history of the Association in a contest against the Houston Rockets that also happened to be the debut of another of the game’s greatest shooters — Larry Bird. The long-range jump shots now make the contemporary NBA what it is.

To get down to brass tacks on which players (and Celtics) ought to be on the short list of history’s greatest shooters, the folks over at the “Thinking Basketball” podcast surveyed the history of the league back to that fateful day in 1979.

To hear who made the cut (and which of them played for Boston), check out the clip embedded below.

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Who are the Boston Celtics’ top-10 all-time leaders in postseason 3-pointers?

Can you name the Boston Celtics’ most prolific postseason 3-point shooters? Better yet, can you do it in order?

The 3-point shot has become the centerpiece of the modern NBA offense in the regular season and playoffs both, but much of the Boston Celtics’ storied postseason runs took place before the advent of the 3 as an NBA phenomenon — never mind its ascent to dominance.

And while Larry Bird might have started his career in the very same game a trey was first recorded, even the Hick From French Lick did not rely too much on the shot. So the record books of which Celtics have sunk the most shots from beyond the arc is heavily slanted towards the modern era, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few surprises mixed into the list.

Can you guess the 10 most prolific 3-point shooters in Boston’s playoff history? Make your guesses and scroll down to see how you did.

Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown to both participate in All-Star 3-Point contest

The Jay Team will compete in — and against each other — in the 2021 NBA 3-Point Contest.

For the first time in their NBA careers, Boston Celtics All-Star wings Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum will be competing against one another.

They’ll do it in the 2021 NBA All-Star Mountain Dew 3-Point Contest, where they will compete against former 3-Point Contest champions Devin Booker of the Phoenix Suns and Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors, as well as Zach LaVine of the Chicago Bulls and Donovan Mitchell of the Utah Jazz, according to the league’s recently-circulated press release. The event — in the 35th year of its existence — will take place at 6 p.m. Eastern Time on March 7, the day of the All-Star game.

It will be the first appearance for both Celtic All-Stars in the event, and Brown’s first All-Star game overall.

For the unfamiliar, each competitor will have 70 seconds to shoot as many of the 27 balls as they can, with a maximum score of 40 points in a round possible.

The three participants with the highest scores in the first round will move on to the championship round, where the contestant with the highest score at the end of the round will win.

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Seth Curry — not Steph — is on pace to do something no NBA player has ever done before

Sheesh, this is wild.

Normally, when we’re talking about a Curry doing something crazy in the NBA, we’re talking about Steph. Not this time, though. It’s his brother, Seth Curry, who is actually on the verge of making some pretty incredible NBA history.

We’ve all heard of the illustrious 50/40/90 club. It’s when a player shoots at least 50% from the field, 40% from the 3-point line and 90% from the free-throw line.

Only eight players in NBA history have joined the illustrious club. Seth Curry’s brother Steph Curry has hit the mark once before.

But Seth? He’s on the verge of creating his own club. Right now, he’s shooting 50.3% from the field, 50.7% from deep and 100% from the free-throw line.

That’s the 50-50-100 club. And he’d have a membership of one.

And, to make it even better, the Sixers are winning. They’re 15-3 with him when he plays. Sounds about right. That’s what happens when you make everything.

That’s a pretty awesome stat and, if he keeps it up, it’ll certainly make for some pretty great dinner table talk between the two brothers. Sure, Steph Curry has a unanimous MVP under his belt and is one of the best shooters we’ve ever seen.

But the 50-50-100 club? He’s never been in that. Keep it up, Seth.

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