Los Angeles Lakers forward Anthony Davis said Monday that new coach JJ Redick spent the offseason encouraging him to take more 3-pointers.
“He’s been on me all summer about shooting threes,” Davis told reporters at Lakers media day, according to House of Highlights. “Even in the Olympics when I made the three, he texted me, ‘That’s what I want to see.'”
Davis, who went 1-for-2 from deep at the Paris Games, averaged 27.8 points last season while attempting 1.4 threes per game. He struggled from that range, converting 27.1% of the time.
The Lakers big shot a career-high 3.5 threes per game in 2019-20, his first campaign with the Lakers, but his attempts and percentage have diminished since then. He drained 33% of his 3-balls in that 2019-20 season, which ended with the Lakers winning the NBA championship.
Redick, a sharpshooter during his playing career, is entering his first season as Lakers coach. Los Angeles made the playoffs in the last two seasons but got knocked out by the Denver Nuggets both times.
