Heading into the Boston Celtics’ two-game road trip against the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder, Jayson Tatum’s three-point shot was off.
For a month straight from November 22 to Christmas Day against the Los Angeles Lakers, Tatum was shooting just 30.7% from distance on 8.1 attempts per game. And much to the chagrin of many Celtics fans, the majority were pull-ups. Of his 114 attempts from deep, 80 were pull-up threes, and he shot 23.8% on those looks.
Since then, he’s turned things around. And when asked about the three-point struggles after the Celtics’ win over the Utah Jazz on Friday night, Tatum told CelticsBlog that it’s a matter of reading the game and not settling.