The Philadelphia 76ers are off to a hot start, getting four wins in as many games to begin the season. They’ve found success exactly as we expected they would: suffocating defense and relentless rebounding. But their weakness is exactly what we expected as well, with the team unable to count on consistent 3PT production.
There are two reasonable lines of thinking that could lead us to assume the Sixers would struggle to convert from deep. No. 1 is because they don’t have an abundance of personnel who create space via their shooting gravity. Here are the Sixers’ Gravity+ rankings via Andrew Patton, and here is the explainer on what these mean.