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Keion Brooks Jr. capitalizes on the lost art of the mid-range jumper

Jack Pilgrim

Photo by Dr. Michael Huang | Kentucky Sports Radio

In just 16 games during the 2020-21 college basketball season, Kentucky forward Keion Brooks Jr. took 28 total 3-point attempts, good for 1.8 per contest. His success rate? 21.4 percent, making just six on the year. Fast forward one season, and Brooks has attempted just 24 shots from deep in 26 games, converting on six. And that’s after taking ten 3-pointers in Kentucky’s first four games.

Since then, the junior forward has taken more than one shot from deep just twice and has failed to register a 3-point attempt 10 times, 11 in total on the year.