NY Knicks: The 3 biggest strengths of the Knicks’ roster
The NY Knicks look like one of the best 3-point shooting teams this year
Some would say that Shooting was a strength of the roster’s last year as well, considering they shot a blistering 39% as a team.
But they ranked in the bottom five in 3-point shot attempts per game. This season, it’s a whole different ballgame, my friends…
It seemed that during the preseason, the Knicks were making a conscious effort to shoot more 3’s this year and that effort is paying off big time.
So far, the Knicks are leading the league in both 3-point shot attempts per game with 49.5, but also 3-point shots made with 20.5.
They even broke the franchise record in both categories against Orlando in just the 2nd game of the regular season.
It’s almost like they’re trying to prove that a lot of their successes from last year weren’t a fluke or something…
It only makes sense that they’d improve but who knew it would be by this wide of a margin.
Derrick Rose who’s never really been the best shooter has shown a substantially increased willingness to shoot it from deep which is proving to be very helpful so far.
Replacing Elfrid Payton with Kemba Walker of course is going to drastically help the Knicks with their overall team shooting as Kemba is a lifetime 36% shooter compared to Elfrid’s abysmal 28%.
(He literally shot 20% from deep last year with the Knicks…yuck.)
Evan Fournier isn’t exactly Steph Curry in comparison to Reggie Bullock, but because he can do a lot more with the ball when it’s in his hands than Reggie could, that in turn has been opening up more scoring possibilities for the team as a whole and Fournier alike.
Thus, making it seem like he is in fact a better shooter.
And then we have the rest of the guys on the team who proved they were great shooters last year like Julius Randle, RJ Barrett, Immanuel Quickley, and Alec Burks.
The only guy we’re still waiting to hit his stride is Obi Toppin but he’s been able to impact games in other ways so the Knicks don’t necessarily need him to be a 40% shooter from 3-point land.
What’s important is that he has the confidence to keep shooting even though he’s missing more often than not.
In time those shots will begin to fall and then the Knicks are really in the money.
Move over Golden State, the Knicks are the new Splash Bros.