Improvement: Baylor Scheierman’s Critical Third Season | Camp Kumbaya?

Let's start with Baylor Scheierman.

He exceeded my expectations last year.

He played 77 games, five and a half points a game, three and a half rebounds.

He shot 45, 40, and 90.

I mean, that's pretty incredible, right? 45 from the field, 40 from three, 90 from the free throw line.

Uh, maybe you want him shooting better than that from the field, but still.

If you're shooting 40% from three, 90% from the free throw line, you feel really good about Baylor Scheierman's future.

And when you look back at his rookie season, he played only 31 games, averaged three and a half points, about two rebounds.

And his shooting percentages in his rookie season, they were much lower than last year.

35 and a half percent from the field instead of 45%.

He shot less than 32% from three, which was my biggest concern.

You know, he just did not shoot well from three in his rookie season.

He did not shoot great in his first summer league.

He did not shoot great in his second summer league.

But he was so much better from three, going from 31.7% to 40%, a massive leap.

And even his free throw shooting, from 75% to 90% last year.

But that huge improvement from three means so much.

As we know, Joe Mazzulla, Mazzulla ball, all that stuff, three-point attempts drives people crazy, but you're gonna take threes.

You're gonna take threes, and if you're gonna take threes, you want guys that make threes.

And Scheierman, that's a completely different basketball player.

A guy that's making 40% of his threes versus a cat who's making less than 32%.

That's a completely different universe in the NBA.

And what we saw from Scheierman from three was he was more consistent.

He also had more variety to his three-point attempts.

He added the, uh, no dip three that we saw a few times.