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USA Today Sports Media Group
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Robert Marvi

The Lakers’ 3-point shooting has been historically bad

It’s no secret the biggest bugaboo for the Los Angeles Lakers to start the new NBA season has been their 3-point shooting.

They’re hitting just 22.3% from beyond the arc, and they’ve failed to reach even the 30% mark in any of their four games this season.

Not coincidentally, Los Angeles is 0-4, and the mood is slowly starting to take on a desperate and possibly even ominous tone.

But the team isn’t just struggling from downtown — it’s struggling in a way that literally no other NBA team has ever struggled before.

Perhaps the one piece of hope for them is that they rank fourth in defensive rating and second in pace. If they just find a way to start hitting an adequate number of 3-pointers while unleashing their fast break, maybe they can start stringing together wins.

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