How the Detroit Pistons are addressing last season’s 3-point shooting woes
Galloway finds consistency
When Langston Galloway was signed by the Stan Van Gundy regime in 2016 he was signed to be the Pistons spark plug off of the bench. At times he fulfilled that role to perfection, seeming like it was impossible for him to miss a shot. Other times it seemed as if Galloway would be unable to throw a beach ball into the ocean.
This has been true of Galloway his entire career. To encapsulate the streaky nature of Galloway you need to look no further than his month-by-month shooting percentages.
Galloway tipped off last season by shooting 14.3 percent from three in the month of October. He followed up that cold streak by heating up and shooting 41.1 percent in November. The next three months (December, January, February) Galloway evened out his percentages shooting a slightly below league average 34.1 percent from deep.
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Finally, he finished out the season in classic Galloway fashion shooting 45.6 percent from three in March and falling one made three short of tying the Pistons record for consecutive made threes in a row, only to completely plummet and shoot a poor 22.6 percent to close out the season in April.
Galloway’s time may be waning with the Pistons as he is on the final year of the three-year, $21 million deal he signed back in 2016, and expiring contracts are enticing trade assets. If the Pistons elect to not deal Galloway before the trade deadline this upcoming season and let him play out the remainder of his contract he will need to find some consistency with his shooting if he hopes to help the Pistons make it back to the playoffs for the second year in a row.
Galloway’s hot and cold shooting eventually evened out to pin him as a league-average, 3-point shooter on the dot (35.5 percent from three on season).
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