I’m worried about Spencer Dinwiddie’s three-point shooting. He’s shooting 28% on a career-high volume. While the rest of his game is just as it ever was, his regression in this facet of the game definitely has me, if not wallowing in a tar-pit of despair, at least dipping my toes into the despair-pit.
I don’t want to throw around phrases like “team of world-renowned sports psychologists”, but when do Dinwiddie’s continue three-point shooting woes necessitate the intervention of a team of world-renowned sports psychologists who get locked in a featureless white room with him for 24 hours straight so they can break down his psyche and rebuild it? That might seem like a drastic measure, but you know what else is drastic? Dinwiddie’s worsened shooting from outside. So if you get the opportunity to somehow hypnotize or condition Dinwiddie into being a 40% three-point shooter (something he’s never been in his career), I think you take that opportunity ever time.
The only problem with this plan is that the most proimenent sports psychologists presumably don’t have a ton of free time in their schedules. They’re booked nonstop with high-profile clients who are looking to overcome their psychological issues as they pertain to contests of sport. To get all of them free for 24 hours so they can gang up on Dinwiddie, reduce him to a childlike state with no memories whatsoever, and turn him into the next Magic Johnson through the power of suggestion, would be very tough to accomplish from a logistics perspective.
Wait, what’s that? You’re telling me that Dinwiddie’s three-point shooting has nothing to do with his psychology at all and is just a random but expected blip for a player who’s never been a very consistent long-range shooter? GTFO outta here with that. I’m trying to really solve his problems and you’re sitting here attributing his shooting to random chance. It’s like you don’t even want the Nets to have Magic Johnson 2.0 while Cryrie Virgin cries about it and demands another trade.