MoCo_Vol
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Man...I'm telling you, that ain't what made forget how to shoot the ball...he just absolutely lost his touch...the lessened attempts is a byproduct of that fact imo. He was a 40+% deadeye shooter until this year.
I'm not saying he shot less and that's why he hit less 3 pointers. I'm saying because he was shooting less attempts AND missed time practicing his shot was off... 16 games he took a 3 and still shot 0% the difference this season compared to previous is that in those 16 games only 1 of them did he reach 4 attempts. So if he felt it was off he just didn't take anymore shots, which actually hurt him overall because he didn't shoot himself out of the slumps.
23-24 he had 16 games where he didn't reach 4 attempts
22-23 he had just 3 games where he didn't reach 4 attempts
21-22 he had just 1 game where he didn't reach 4 attempts
20-21 he had just 5 games where he didn't reach 4 attempts
19-20 he had just 4 games where he didn't reach 4 attempts (even though he only played in 19 games)
So a mix of factors I'm sure were involved, but Santi has always been a volume shooter and hitting 35% or better from deep is a lot easier to accomplish when you're taking 7 or more shots.