The accuracy from J.J. Redick has increased in each of his three seasons with the Los Angeles Clippers. Redick is on the verge of becoming the eighth player to join an exclusive efficiency club.
The list of players to shoot the ball more accurately than Los Angeles Clippers shooting guard J.J. Redick is a very short one.
Only two players, Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant, winners of five out of the past seven scoring titles, managed to post a higher true shooting percentage than Redick’s 63.2 percent last season.
True shooting percentage is a metric that measures shooting efficiency by taking into account field goals, three-point field goals and free throws.
From anywhere on the floor, Redick proved to be an effective shooter, as he led the league in three-point shooting percentage, 47.5 percent, and ranked eighth in three-point field goals made at 200.
Redick has converted 200 shots from three-point range each of the past two seasons, joining just 13 other players to convert 200 or more three-point field goals in a single season on multiple occasions.
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If you put the lofty shooting totals from all over the floor together, Redick is a prime candidate to join Curry and Durant as a member of the exclusive 50-40-90 club.
Aside from Curry and Durant, only Larry Bird, Mark Price, Reggie Miller, Steve Nash, Jose Calderon and Dirk Nowitzki have ever completed an entire season shooting 50 percent from the field, 40 percent from three-point range and convert 90 percent of all free throw attempts.
Since being selected with the 11th overall pick of the 2006 NBA Draft, Redick has finished four seasons shooting above 40 percent from three-point range and has converted 90 percent of his free throws on five occasions.
While joining the rare breed of shooters is a feat he would like to accomplish, Redick realizes just how difficult sustaining the precision shooting from all over the floor truly is, as he explained to InsideSocial.com.
"“That’s always like a goal every season,” Redick said. “It’s hard because I don’t shoot a lot of layups. It’s hard because most of my shots are 3s and then long 2-point jumpers, so it’s hard to get to 50 (percent overall). I don’t want to say it’s a dream of mine to accomplish it, but it’s definitely something from an individual standpoint as a shooter that you kind of earmark and you would hope that if things work out in a certain season you could accomplish it at least once.”"
Redick has steadily improved his efficiency shooting the ball throughout his career, especially since he came to Los Angeles.
Ever since he joined the Clippers, Redick has managed to increase both his field goal percentage and his three-point shooting percentages in each of the past three seasons.
Los Angeles has managed to pile up the points of the most basic play in basketball, running catch-and-shoot opportunities.
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Redick scored 48.5 percent of his 16.4 points per game as the result of catch-and-shoot plays. The 7.9 points he posted off the play were the third most in the NBA.
No other player was nearly as effective converting shots off the play. Redick knocked down 50.2 percent of his attempts off catch-and-shoot plays, the only player in the league to shoot above 50 percent while scoring more than 4.5 points per game off catch-and-shoot chances.
The Clippers even found ways for Redick to win games off catch-and-shoot plays off inbound passes last year.
After 10 seasons in the league, Redick has solidified himself as an elite three-point shooter. The conversion rate 41.2 percent from beyond the arc throughout his career has Redick ranked as the seventh most accurate long range shooter among all active players.
He was even more accurate with his midrange jumper, converting 47.4 percent of his attempts between 16 feet away from the rim and the three-point arc last season, helping him connect on 48 percent of his attempts from the field, the highest of his career.
The 32-year-old guard remained nearly automatic at the foul line, converting 88.8 percent of his attempts, tying Milwaukee guard Khris Middleton for the eighth highest free throw percentage in the league last season.
Curry is the only active player to surpass Redick’s career average of 88.7 percent shooting at the foul line.
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The only task remaining for Redick to join the list of the most efficient shooters ever to grace an NBA court is to put is accuracy from all over the court together for one season.