Head coach JJ Redick said Sunday that the Los Angeles Lakers will not force additional three-pointers unless the shots fit the team’s offensive structure.
Speaking before the game in Utah, Redick acknowledged the club’s current ranking of 26th in three-point attempts (32.3 per game) and last in makes (10.9). He stressed, however, that volume will grow only through paint touches, kick-outs, corner fills and transition spacing—plays he believes maximize the roster’s strengths.
“The volume will rise,” Redick said, according to the Orange County Register, “but we’re not sacrificing good offense just to shoot more threes.”
The approach contrasts with last season, when the Luka Doncic trade immediately boosted Los Angeles from 33.8 long-range attempts per game to 40.4, a top-10 figure league-wide. That spike came from Doncic’s own willingness to shoot, the defensive attention he commanded and the smaller lineups deployed around him.
Redick noted that league-wide three-point frequency has leveled off, with teams emphasizing what their personnel do best. For the Lakers, that currently means excelling inside the arc; they lead the NBA in efficiency at the rim, in floater territory and in the mid-range.
Even so, the coach said he is comfortable if the Lakers eventually return to roughly 40 three-point attempts per night—as long as those looks “make sense for this roster.”
Source: Hoops Wire
