Predicting Who Might Reach the NBA’s Rare 50/40/90 Shooting Mark in 2014-15

October 17th, 2014 by Jim Cavan Leave a reply »

What makes a great NBA shooter?

Part of it has to do with mechanics: square body, L in the elbow and a smooth release with hand following through all the way into the cookie jar.

Part of it has to do with calm countenance and cool nerves: being able to can it with a hand in your face and the clock dropping to zero.

But if there’s one benchmark universally accepted as a true marksman’s mark, it’s 50 percent from the floor, 40 percent from three-point range and 90 percent from the stripe for an entire season—50-40-90 in basketball stat-speak.

How rare is this statistical trifecta? It’s been hit only 19 times since the three-point line was first adopted in 1979 (12 times, if you count only those players who logged more than 250 minutes in said season), according to Basketball-Reference.com.

So who, if anyone, has a chance—a realistic chance—to join these rare, righteous ranks this season? These are the three candidates we settled on.

All apologies (and a much-deserved honorable mention) to the Los Angeles Lakers’ Steve Nash. Four-time 50-40-90 ...

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