Suns’ opponents are shooting 28% from deep so far. That’s just variance. Low sample size nonsense.
The best defensive teams last year still had opponents shooting 34%.
10th best team in defensive 3P% allowed 36%.
Assuming the Suns are a top-10 team in limiting opponent 3pt% and regress to a mean of 36%, that’s 2.5 more 3pt makes per100, which is 7.57 points per100.
That would boost their current defensive rating of 104.5 to 112.1 which would rank 18th so far this year.
For reference, at this point last year the Blazers had the second best defensive rating in the league.
Suns’ opponents are shooting 28% from deep so far. That’s just variance. Low sample size nonsense.
The best defensive teams last year still had opponents shooting 34%.
10th best team in defensive 3P% allowed 36%.
Assuming the Suns are a top-10 team in limiting opponent 3pt% and regress to a mean of 36%, that’s 2.5 more 3pt makes per100, which is 7.57 points per100.
That would boost their current defensive rating of 104.5 to 112.1 which would rank 18th so far this year.
For reference, at this point last year the Blazers had the second best defensive rating in the league.