Ray Allen is considered one of the best shooters the NBA has ever seen. The ex-player was a lethal profile from long distance and currently occupies the first place of the ranking historic with a total of 2,973 triples scored. But strange as it may seem, he has shown his dissatisfaction with the evolution towards the perimeter that the NBA has followed in recent years.
Players like Stephen Curry and Damian Lillard have raised the 3-point shooting to a new level, exhibiting a range of shooting simply astonishing and unthinkable until recently. The triple is now one of the most important weapons in the competition and all teams associate success with it. However, Allen believes that some aspects of the game have suffered a regression because of this craze for the triple.
“I think the game is still very entertaining. But it is not so attractive to look at because there are many different situations that are being lost, “said the two-time NBA champion in the middle. ESPN. “The mid-range It is being lost. Look at Toronto a couple of years ago when they won the championship. They had great 3-point shooters, but you saw them get into the paint and shoot from medium range. Now many feint, recoil and go towards the three-point line. “
After hanging up his shoes in 2016, Allen has replaced NBA courts with benches. He currently coaches an AAU team, where he is instilling those fundamentals that he was taught and that he is trying to preserve in future players. He wants his pupils to absorb as much of the fundamentals as possible without focusing heavily on outside shooting.
“I tell my guys on the AAU team that I train to follow college basketball very closely, to play hard, and to learn the dos and don’ts from the NBA. But never be satisfied with just shooting three. “
And it is that the NBA has changed a lot since his stage as a player. Last year, all teams exceeded 2,000 attempts from long distance except for the New York Knicks (1,872) despite having fewer games due to COVID-19. In the year of Ray Allen’s second and last ring, coinciding with his stay in Miami in the 2012-13 season, only three franchises surpassed this figure: the Knicks themselves (2,371), Houston Rockets (2,369) and the Los Angeles Lakers (2,015). ).
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