Three-point field goal

That's the number one thing about last night.

I know everyone was discouraged about the loss and the 13-point blown lead in the third quarter.

I get that.

It's frustrating, but Your number one overall pick made his debut, and he looked like the number one overall pick.

Do you think this evens out over time, or are they just not built to be a great three-point shooting team right now?

I'll tell you one thing.

If they're the second worst three-point shooting team for the rest of the year, and on top of that, they can't rebound, there's going to be a lot more losses than I anticipated heading into this year.

I think if you can get in the 18-20 range...

The number one point that I made throughout the summer, Abdullah, was that these kind of things will sort themselves out by people playing well and people not.

And at the end of the day, when Michael Winger said himself, president of basketball operations for Monumental Basketball, they're not in the business of just handing out minutes anymore if that is truly the case middleton should be playing his way out of the rotation at this point in time and maybe he'll have a couple more opportunities we'll see maybe not to the extent that he did last night but if this is truly the idea we want to have here in washington where you are earning your minutes and how you play will dictate how much you play then these things should work themselves out and maybe the door will open for a player Like Will Riley, now that you have an injury to Champagny, this should be the opening off the wing for a player that can create his own shot off the dribble and maybe give you some resemblance of a spark in three-point shooting.

I know the defense isn't quite there, but it's not there for Middleton either.

That's what I'm saying.

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The lack of three-point shooting is killer for this team right now, and it certainly was in the second half.

The Wizards under 30% from three as a team through the first five games of the season, 29th in the NBA.

So, yeah, point of attack still sucks, right? Defensive rebounding, very much need to improve in that area.

What else did we complain about? We complained about three-point shooting, right? So, we start the game.

By the way, the first quarter was very, very fun, very fast-paced, very exciting.

Pretty much everybody on both teams were hitting all of their three-pointers.

Just because we're not connecting at 35% or whatever the league average is, that doesn't mean you should stop shooting threes.

That's what we did last season, right? That was the recipe that continued to make us lose games and we ultimately finished with only 26 wins.

Because we just were like, okay, well, we're not a good three-point shooting team, so we're just not going to do it at all, right? Or we'll top off at like 16 attempts per game or something crazy.

I think there were very few games last year where they shot more than like 33s in a game.

One thing I do want to focus on here in the what we're talking about segment is also a turning point in the game because this game really came down to a couple of elements, but one of them reigns supreme.

The Knicks, one of the best three-point shooting teams ever.

Throughout the postseason and regular season last year, tonight, they didn't guard it well.

They didn't shoot it well.

And I'm going to also talk about somebody else more qualified.

That's Mike Breen and Clyde Frazier on the MSU broadcast, pretty much saying what I felt about this entire night.

This came down to the three-point shooting.

Orlando nailing 18 threes.

It's like,

yeah like that that's the vision here right like you've got you got to pick your poison with kade in the pick and roll and either one of them is going to dunk it on you so good luck right like that that's really what they want and like you said he brings the three-point shooting i thought that the uh the defense even i mean even against the celtics while he may not have been fully capable of staying in front of Paul George which I you know that's kind of like having the fish climb the tree right and it's like you know what are you asking him to do here what is our expectation really he did he was disruptive he had that block he also had a steal in that game and I think if you're if you're John Collins and you're kind of outmatched in your perimeter matchup for that night if you can turn it around and at least be disruptive in some other ways where he wasn't actually disruptive against the Heat.

I think that's a big win for him.

So I've liked the effort.

That was one of those key areas of development that we were hoping for coming into this season, and seeing it early is rad.

this team be a good three-point shooting team

i think it's gonna have to be at least the way that it's currently set up right um but yeah i d look they're looking for it um right uh dixon obviously has a green light which he should uh caleb loves that uh left corner

yeah he

He's looking a lot more confident.

Right.

Yeah, this is not going to be last year's team in terms of three-point shooting.

It's going to be a much more productive three-point shooting