Are one-legged 3-pointers the future of the NBA? Probably not for Steph Curry

The first person who intentionally tried to run three was Juan Carlos Navarro. He makes every name – “Juan. Carlos. Navarro.” – Out of obvious respect for one of the players who inspired him.

But outside the all-star game, Curry didn’t really take part in the trend. He did not try three in a real game this year in a real game, and the last one he scored was in 2021 over the Great Guard de’anthony Melton.

Warrior’s Sharpshooter Buddy Hield said he had practiced the one -legged shot since the training camp and drained one in October.

“You have to find this fine line,” said Hield. “If you do it, if you do it, it’s good, but if you miss it, it is a whole, as everyone says: ‘Buddy shoots a damn streptback one -legged friend.’ So you have to do it if you do it.

Curry sat on the sidelines after a morning shootaround in New Orleans and looked at the Tatum video again, then a third time – studied it and broke it off.

“I don’t know why he tried that,” said Curry. “Yes, it is almost as if a two-foot stop is more difficult to create rhythm, especially when the ball hangs. As soon as it came off the screen, he knew how much space he had, and he had to make a shot on the clock, so … that’s nice.

Curry does not work specifically for its three current threes, but tries a variety of recordings to work on different equilibrium and leg work patterns. “I will sprinkle one from time to time,” he said.

In the league, however, these sprinkles become splashes.

“Everyone I show to love it,” said Hauselman. “I don’t think we would see lady (Lillard) and Steph and LeBron – we would not see these boys without knowing that it was viable.”