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For Mike Budenholzer, the important thing is the 3-points

At the Hawks then at the Bucks, Mike Budenholzer has always pushed his teams to shoot 3-pointers. And that’s what he also plans to do with the Suns, especially since he has a few shooters in store…

“He advocates a lot of 3-points”, confirms Grayson Allen. “I know it’s something we want to do more of. That was one of the weak points of our team last year, the number of attempts. We have a lot of good shooters. We just need to find a way to increase the number of attempts. »

Leader of the league in terms of 3-point skill last year, with 46.1% success (5.9 attempts per game), Grayson Allen is undoubtedly not opposed to this desire.

5th at address, 25th in attempts

But if the Suns were “only” 25th in terms of long-range attempts (32.6 per game) last year, they were nevertheless 5th in terms of address (38.2%). Enough to push Mike Budenholzer to try to convince Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal to take fewer mid-distance shots, even if the three players appreciate this zone.

“We have no choice”explains the former Wizard. “Coach Bud called me into his office the other day and showed me five or six sequences where I was literally missing 3-pointers, rushing into the defense and losing the ball. Or rush into the defense and take a long 2-pointer. He told me: “Shoot 3-pointers”. It's going to be difficult because K (Kevin Durant) and Book (Devin Booker) shoot 60 or 70% 2-point success. So we'll keep taking it, but when you look at the championship teams, they're first, second or third in attempts, completions and percentages (by far). For us to be in the race, we have to start getting more out of it.”

Moreover, Jusuf Nurkic should also take more outside shots this season in Phoenix.

Shots Rebounds
Players MJ Min Shots 3pts L.F. Off Def Early Pd Bp Int Ct Party Pts
Kevin Durant 75 37.2 52.3 41.3 85.6 0.5 6.1 6.6 5.0 3.3 0.9 1.2 1.8 27.1
Devin Booker 68 36.0 49.2 36.4 88.6 0.8 3.7 4.5 6.9 2.6 0.9 0.4 3.0 27.1
Bradley Beal 53 33.3 51.3 43.0 81.3 1.0 3.4 4.4 5.0 2.5 1.0 0.5 2.4 18.2
Grayson Allen 75 33.5 49.9 46.1 87.8 0.6 3.3 3.9 3.0 1.3 0.9 0.6 2.1 13.5
Eric Gordon 68 27.8 44.3 37.8 79.7 0.2 1.6 1.8 2.0 1.1 1.0 0.4 1.2 11.0
Jusuf Nurkic 76 27.3 51.0 24.4 64.0 2.9 8.1 11.0 4.0 2.3 1.1 1.1 3.3 10.9
Royce O'neale 30 25.1 41.1 37.6 69.2 0.7 4.5 5.2 2.7 0.7 0.9 0.5 1.8 8.1
Bowl Bowl 43 10.9 61.6 42.3 78.9 0.7 2.4 3.2 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.6 1.0 5.2
Drew Eubanks 75 15.6 60.1 100.0 77.4 1.4 2.9 4.3 0.8 0.8 0.4 0.8 1.5 5.1
Chimezie Metu 37 12.1 50.8 29.4 88.4 0.6 2.3 3.0 0.5 0.7 0.5 0.2 1.1 5.0
Jordan Goodwin 40 14.0 38.9 28.8 86.2 1.0 1.9 2.9 2.0 0.7 0.6 0.2 1.1 5.0
Josh Okogie 60 16.0 41.7 30.9 74.5 1.2 1.3 2.6 1.1 0.6 0.8 0.4 1.1 4.6
Keita Bates Diop 39 15.3 42.7 31.3 72.2 0.8 1.8 2.6 0.9 0.3 0.6 0.5 0.8 4.5
Yuta Watanabe 29 13.2 36.1 32.0 66.7 0.4 1.2 1.6 0.3 0.6 0.3 0.2 1.2 3.6
Nassir Little 45 10.2 46.0 30.0 85.0 0.3 1.4 1.7 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.9 3.4
Saben Lee 24 7.7 36.4 12.5 74.4 0.4 0.9 1.3 1.3 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.5 3.0
Thaddeus Young 10 8.9 52.4 0.0 33.3 1.7 1.1 2.8 0.7 0.4 0.5 0.2 1.1 2.3
Udoka Azubuike 16 7.1 69.6 0.0 23.1 0.7 1.3 2.0 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.4 1.1 2.2
Isaiah Thomas 6 3.2 30.0 50.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.3
David Roddy 17 3.7 43.5 12.5 100.0 0.1 0.5 0.6 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.2 1.3
Theo Maledon 4 3.3 25.0 0.0 100.0 0.0 0.3 0.3 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 0.8 1.3
Ish Wainright 4 4.1 16.7 25.0 0.0 0.8 0.5 1.3 0.3 0.3 0.5 0.0 1.0 0.8

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