Here’s a thought experiment for you: is Dewayne Dedmon a BETTER three-point shooter than Trae Young? I’ll give you their respective shooting stats so you don’t have to look it up yourself.
Trae Young: 0/3 this game, 69/239 (28.9%) for the season
Dewayne Dedmon: 5/7 this game, 42/110 (38.1%) for the season
Keep in mind that Dedmon will literally only shoot threes if he’s open. He will also only ever shoot catch-and-shoot shots. Rarely he might dribble into one, but he’s mostly just catching passes from his teammates and launching them up there. Meanwhile, Young will take any three-pointer that presents itself, even if it’s a few feet behind the line, and even if he just dribbled twenty times to get to his spot.
I guess it boils down to: what makes a “good” three-point shooter? Is the one who hits more in an empty gym the better shooter? Or is the one who knows how to take them and make them in the flow of the offense the better shooter? I don’t have an answer here. This is a legitimate question that gets frighteningly close to some larger philosophical themes that I would rather not think about right now.
Cast your votes below. Type “Trae Young is a midget chucker” if you think Dedmon is the better three-point shooter, and type “Dewayne Dedmon should go back to being a Jehovah’s Witness because he really sucks at basketball” if you think Young is the better three-point shooter.