The mid-range jumper, once a staple of the NBA and in particular the Timberwolves, has become a rare and vilified shot in today’s game.
Properly decried for its general inefficiency – compared, say, to a three-pointer just a couple steps back, or a two-pointer near the basket – it has been all but eradicated from the Wolves’ repertoire during this season of shot value maximization.
Only 4.3% of Wolves field goal attempts this season had come from between 16 feet and the three-point line entering play Monday, per Basketball Reference. Only the similarly analytically driven Rockets and Nets (both 3.