Zion's SECRET STRATEGY For The Season (Insane NBA Stats)

This is a regular 3 point shot by Zion. But what’s interesting about it, is that it’s his only attempt from downtown so far this season.
In fact, if we look at his shooting chart, this is how it looks. He has just 2 shots outside the paint.
And it’s very logical to have a guy who’s unstoppable going to the rim, just do that all the time.
Heck, even Lebron couldn’t stop it.
So, although in his first 2 years he attempted some shots from midrange and 3, it seems like he’s doubling down on what works best this season, and that is bulldozing through everyone all the way to the rim.
Almost 10% of the season is behind us. And we got some very interesting stats from it. So let’s go through them. What up everybody, my name is Stefan and this is Heat Check. Let’s get into it.
Luka Doncic is leading the league in scoring at the moment while shooting a terrific 51.4% from the field. This becomes astonishing when I tell you that he maintains this percentage from the field
despite shooting a miserable 23.7% from downtown.
Yup you heard that right. Luka is firing away 8.4 three pointers per game and hitting 2.
At the moment he’s the least efficient high volume 3 point shooter,
and some other great shooters who are in this group are C.J Mccollum at 27.7% and Kyrie Irving at 28.0%.
Of course this is early in the season so I feel like they will soon find their groove.
A player that has found his groove however is Desmond Bane.
In his third season he’s taking yet another leap, going from 9 to 18 to now 25 points per game, but Bane’s 3 point shooting early on is unbelievable.
Desmond increased his attempts from 6.9 to 9.1 a game which is a lot and so far is hitting them at a whooping 46.9% up from last year’s 43.6.
So more volume translates to a better percentage for him. Amazing.
And Kevin Huerter’s early success is even more astonishing.
Last year he shot 38.9% on 5.6 shots from outside, which is close to his career average.
So you can understand the excitement of Kings fans watching Kevin hit a mind boggling 51.8% of his threes on 8 shots per game. That’s really a big increase both in volume and efficiency so we’ll see if he’s able to sustain this wild pace that he’s on.
1 team that surprised the entire NBA world is definitely the Utah Jazz. They are playing great and part of their secret is their ball movement and unselfish basketball.
Last season the Jazz were 27th in assists per game and so far this year they've jumped to number 5 in the league. An insane jump of 22 places with 6 more assists per game from last season.
This is by far the biggest assist improvement from last year to this one. For a team that we all thought would lose a bunch of games, right now is number 3 in the stacked western conference.
A stark contrast of that are the Los Angeles Lakers who are currently 13th in the west.
Obviously their shooting woes are well documented and they rank dead last number 30 in the league in offensive efficiency.
However what’s interesting is that the Lakers have the second best defense so far this season.
This has to be the biggest discrepancy of a team’s offense and defense and looking at these stats there’s equally as much hope as there is disappointment if you’re a Lakers fan.
And I gotta mention 2 more young players who are making huge strides of improvement.
First it’s Tyrese Maxey who went from 8 to 17.5 points last year to now starting off at 24.2 points per game.
All of this while shooting a blistering hot 46.8 from downtown on 6.9 attempts. He is really taking on a bigger role in Philly and taking his game to the next level.
Speaking of next level, that’s certainly the case with Shai Gilgeous Alexander who is having a phenomenal start to the season
with 32 points per game and 6.3 assists on 54.5% from the field.
An all around offensive explosion for Shai and if the Thunder don’t shut him down in their attempt to tank and lose as many games as possible he will have a monster year.
Lots of these fun statistics at the start, so let me know in the comments if I missed some. That’s it for now, subscribe and talk to you in the next one. Peace out.