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How important is the mid-range jumper in 2024?

How important is the mid-range jumper in 2024?

Revisiting an old question by looking at the remaining Sweet 16 teams.

Jordan Sperber
Mar 25, 2024
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And then there were 16.

After a great four days of basketball, we have a fairly chalky Sweet 16 — with every one-seed and two-seed advancing to the second weekend.

Back before the season started, I wrote a newsletter titled How important is the mid-range jumper in 2023?

How important is the mid-range jumper in 2023?

How important is the mid-range jumper in 2023?

Jordan Sperber
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August 24, 2023
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The findings were nuanced.

Yes, mid-range shot attempts are generally inefficient. This season, the average mid-range attempt was worth just 0.76 points per shot.

However, the best defenses tend to force opponents into taking mid-range shots. Which leads me to one of my main takeaways from that old newsletter:

But generally speaking, having diversity in your offense is a good thing. Especially against defenses capable of taking away your strengths. A team that can score in several different ways is significantly more resilient against strong opposing defenses.

In other words, the mid-range can sometimes be a necessary tool to have in your toolkit against elite defenses.

In fact, I found that 2023 UConn relied more on the mid-range as they got deeper into last year’s tournament — especially in the championship game against San Diego State.

In today’s newsletter, we’ll take a look at the mid-range volume of the 16 remaining teams. And how much they’ve relied on those shots in the first two rounds of the tournament.

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