Utah Jazz: 3 season goals for Bojan Bogdanovic in 2020-21
2. Join the 50/40/90 club
There are only nine NBA players who have ever been able to shoot 50 percent from the floor, 40 percent from deep and 90 percent from the free-throw line in a single season. It is one of the hardest combinations of metrics to average for a whole season.
The nine players are Larry Bird (twice), Mark Price, Reggie Miller, Steve Nash (four times), Dirk Nowitzki, Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry and Malcolm Brogdon. Only Elena Delle Donne has managed to achieve this in the WNBA. It is not easy, to say the least.
Bogdanovic has shot the ball from inside the arc at above 50 percent in four of six seasons. For Bogdanovic to shoot a 50 field goal percentage he needs to shoot above 55 percent from 16 feet or less.
From deep, Bogdanovic has shot the ball above 40 percent from the last three seasons. Thanks to his high volume, Bogdanovic needs to shoot the 3-ball above 43 percent so that he still able to hit the 50 percent field goal metric. You can see why it is so hard to get these percentages.
Bogdanovic has always been a solid free throw shooter. He has a career number of 85.8 percent from the line. In his first season with the Jazz, Bogdanovic shot the ball at 90.3 percent from the line. He simply needs to keep this going next season to get to the number required.