
#164: The best shooters ever
Thinking Basketball
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Kevin Durant and Dirk Nevitsky
Dirk Nevitsky had more of a long mid range diet so how do you balance these things because we're talking pure shooting. Dirk took three threes per 100 at his peak and he made them at 41% but I don't think people quite realize that he was a really good outside shooter from 2002 to 2011. Kevin Durant is one of the all-time great long two point shooters 51% over a multi-year stretch on high high volume this is one of those guys that when you look it up in the old days you're like what do you mean you took 800 jumpers from 18 feet in a season.
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