It’s looking to me like the 76ers entered the season without enough shooting. They looked at the players they had and thought to themselves “lots of these dudes can shoot threes, so I think we’re good in that area”. Which is true. Most of the players they have CAN shoot threes, everyone’s attempted some except for Jonah Bolden and… Ben Simmons. The problem is that none of them are particularly good at shooting threes (except for Tobias Harris and Mike Scott, and they’re both slumping). Anyone can shoot them. Making them is the question.
Furkan Korkmaz entered this game leading the 76ers in three-point makes, and he exited the game leading the 76ers in three-point makes, adding 3 to his total. When a somewhat marginal role-player is leading your team in an important offensive statistical category, that’s not a good thing. Because while I love Korkmaz and think he’s really fun, he doesn’t offer much of anything besides scoring. But when he’s just about the only guy who can reliably make threes, you end up having to play him way too much just to make things work for everybody else.
J.J. Redick isn’t even doing that good in New Orleans, I bet he would love to return to a team that is for sure going to make the playoffs and hit threes with all his old buddies while running around screens like a maniac. Korkmaz, he’s nice, but he doesn’t do that, at least not with same relentless intensity.