Shooting regression is coming for the Mavericks. Or is it?

Robert Hanashiro-USA TODAY Sports If you listen to Tyron Lue, Paul George or Skip Bayless you would believe that the Dallas Mavericks are an average to bad 3-point shooting team that has simply been lucky so far in the playoffs. To an extent that is true. No team is going to shoot 50 percent from three over a long sample size. That being said, the Mavericks are not due for as much regression as it might appear.

The Mavericks shot 36.2 percent from three for the regular season. This was 18th in the NBA. However of the 2,744 threes the Mavericks took during the regular season, 657 threes were taken by Josh Richardson, Dwight Powell, Trey Burke, Willie Cauley-Stein, James Johnson, Josh Green,…