Victor Wembanyama has even the NBA’s best shooters 'recalibrating,' because 'when you think you've got enough space, you really don’t.'
knows what an open shot feels like. As a nine-year veteran of the league, he’s taken hundreds of them, developing a sense for space and when there’s enough of it. In early January, when Connaughton’s played the , Connaughton got that familiar feeling again. With about eight minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, drew a double team and found alone on the right wing. San Antonio’s , Connaughton’s defender, scrambled to cover him.
” According to Synergy data, 86 percent of the 3-pointers that Wembanyama has contested fall into that “wide open” label, one of the “worst” rates in the league. In other words, when opposing players take shots, he’s rarely considered “close” enough to them to affect them. But the league is shooting slightly less than 36 percent on “wide open” 3s that he has contested, noticeably lower than the 39.2 percent league average.
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