we've had this discussion. I went back and looked and he took more 3's per minutes played than anyone on the team if I recall. Your argument was that he didn't have enough attempts, but again, I ask you what "shooter" ever went through a 2-22 stretch? I've said all along that if he'd stop worrying about shooting and just play, I think his game would come around and I think it is. I just looked and last year he was putting up a 3 for every 6.25 minutes played (Kopp was 1 every 7.5 minutes played as a comparison) and this year it's 1 every 12+ minutes played. He may be a higher volume scorer/shooter in the future, but for now he's shooting much better while taking fewer (better?) shots and focusing more on D and just playing.
CJ only played in 20 games last year. So in over 1/3 of their games, he didn't play a second. I've been there, that unknown creates stress and tension every game, that regular rotation guys don't have. He literally didn't know game to game whether he was going to play or not. So when he did check in, he's amped up.
In 5 of those 20 games, he played 10 minutes or more.
In 15 of those 20 games, he played 10 minutes or less.
His PPM in the 5 games he played more than 10 minutes was 0.293.
His PPM in the 15 games he played less than 10 minutes was 0.213
In the 2 games where he played close to 20 minutes, his PPM was 0.411
A strong case could be made that CJ became more comfortable, and more effective scoring wise, the more playing time he got.
2-21 isn't very good, obviously. But its not like he was shooting them consecutively. Most nights it was 1, maybe 2 of them, jammed in to a low amount of playing time. He had a lot of 0-1, 2 minutes of playing time, type nights.
I think the anticipation probably got to him. And once he had a few games in a row of 1)not playing at all 2)not hitting the shot or two he got...it probably started to snowball and his attempts became more and more stressful.
I don't know why he hasn't earned many extended minutes of playing time on the court. But it seems when he gets them, he settles in and does fairly well. There's a reason why announcers and coaches a like tell kids not to come in and chuck up an outside shot the first couple times you touch it. Probably over half those 21 three point attempts fall in to that category.