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The 2-point shot is less and less used in the NBA. The debate about whether the good anger is

By Tim Reynold's AP basketball author

The NBA is about to achieve something that it has never seen before. The jury is still not whether it is a good thing.

With about seven weeks in the season, 2-point shots make up 49% of the rating. And if these statistics no longer occur-there is no indication that this is not the case-this is the first season, in which 2-pointers make up less than half of the point production of the league.

The current collapse: a record depth of 49% of the rating comes from 2-pointer, a record high of 36% comes from 3-hitherto, and an almost record depth of 15% comes from the foul line. These figures are just proof of how the 3-point shot penetrates the game, and that's why many people wonder loudly when the league has a real problem in their hands.

“I have no problem with boys and teams shooting a lot of 3,” said Stephen Curry von Golden State, the league of the league in 3-horserons and someone who takes 4,000 career for his regular season. “Of course I play like this and I love this factor in the game. But they also have to put the work behind the scenes to take full advantage of them. “

This is not a new phenomenon.

Apart from a big change in the way the game will be played in the next seven weeks, the league is up to date to break the record for 3 points in one season (it will be the 15th season in a row Being in which the 3S-Per-Per-Per season in a row in which the 3S-Per-Game Record Falls) and 3 hands who tried in one season will be (a new brand becomes 19 . last 22 seasons set there).

Boston is heading the 3-point attack this year, although the Celtics are hardly the only 3-happy team. But the defending NBA champions are clearly more dependent on the shot than any other, and 46% of their points this season come from beyond the arch. You will almost certainly be the third team in NBA history, which ends one season with more points from 3S than 2S and follows the Houston Rockets 2018-19 and UTAH Jazz 2020-21.

“Everyone can't play the same,” said Celtic's all-star striker and twice Olympic gold medalist Jayson Tatum. “You have to have the right staff. But you know how we play works for us. So we play for our strengths. “

The Celtics are the only franchise in NBA history that makes eight different players in one season 100 3. You have done it in the last two seasons and are up to date this year. For them, the 3 pointer is the golden ticket; You are 33-6 this season if you earn at least 17 3, and only 8-10 if you don't do so many.

They had five 3-point shooters together on the floor last season and the result was an NBA championship. Sometimes it was impossible to protect. The Golden State rode in its years as “Splash Brothers”, a duo that has initiated a new era with 3-point confidence. And mathematics is simple: shooting 40% to 3S brings you more points per experiment than 50% to 2S.

“At the moment I think that the defense has to catch up and maybe NBA teams will shoot less 3s” shoulder. “But analytics give it, so it makes sense.”

Wembanyama had an average of 8.8 3-point attempts per game this season, the best of every center of the league, and his 403 attempts in the season of Beyond the Arc are still more than some of the best shooters in the game this week -A list of players are Phoenix 'Devin Booker, Austin Reaves from Los Angeles Lakers and Duncan Robinson from Miami.

But the numbers say it's a good shot. So Wembanyama took her. Many of them. The Spurs were a team for years that did not prioritize the 3 pointer. And now it's a weapon for you and everyone else in the league.

“The game developed,” said Golden State coach Steve Kerr, an elite shooter in his match days.

It continues to develop. At the beginning of this month, Commissioner Adam Silver said that during the All-Star weekend at the Tech summit he heard a conversation between Kerr and broadcaster Bob Costas on the Tech summit, who invited a kind of keynote for those who invited to this event became. Silver later announced that Kerr admitted that there could be a little too many 3-point shooting in today's NBA, but that he might like the current status of the game and would not recommend any changes.

Silver finds everything cyclical. He said when the all-star weekend in 2000 last came to the Bay Area: “Many people said it was too physical, we were too dependent on the dunk that the players were not sufficiently sent as in the old ones Days. “”

Everything is very different now.

“The fact that you cannot play in this league now if you cannot shoot that even 7-footers have to be able to shoot nowadays and be able to shoot, to be able to shoot I actually think that it is a nice thing. Said Silver.

The Associated Press contributed to this article