1. Become a 40 percent 3-point shooter
Over 213 career games, Johnson has now converted at a 37.1 percent clip from long range. Having averaged 3.3 attempts per game over this time, this is clearly a more than respectable return.
Last season, “Bumpy” launched a career-high 4.5 attempts per game from 3-point range while converting at a 36.7 percent clip. Therefore, rounding out the overall consistency in his success from long distance will be the key to him breaking through the elusive 40 percent barrier over the course of a season.
In 72 games last season, Johnson had 16 games in which he failed to nail a triple, and a further 19 games where he connected just once from long range. Therefore over a 35-game span, the former undrafted Fresno State star shot at an atrocious 15.7 percent clip.
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On the flip side, Johnson had 17 games in which he nailed at least three triples, including a career-high five on two occasions. Over this span, Johnson shot at an elite 52.2 percent clip. Clearly, this represents an enormous discrepancy in returns, and is just one of several reasons why Heat followers have such an uneasy time watching Johnson when taking into consideration his exorbitant salary over the next two seasons.
However, given a more settled role in the second unit, and another year of natural growth under his belt, there’s no reason the 26-year-old Johnson can’t match his teammates in Goran Dragic and Wayne Ellington in having his own 40 percent season from long range.