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[SleepingHero]

The "Luka effect" does not improve guys 3 percentage by 8 percent, especially when his shot profile wasn't significantly different than normal.  Luka might have added a percent or two, but most of it was noise.

I would be willing to bet that if an analysis was done on Timmy streakiness compared to other players, the difference would be almost entirely driven by shot profile.  Guys that take more threes are going to have more streaky results because 3% is much more streaky than other shots.  Roughly 45% of Dinwiddie's shots are 3s where Timmy is around 55% so he will probably be a little more streaky, but I am guessing the actual difference is less than what is perceived (probably due to the negative reinforcement when Timmy chucks).

I believe you're discounting the sample size. 94 games at over 40% is not a streak. That's well over an entire seasons worth of games where Dinwiddie was consistently above 40%. I think Dinwiddie worked well within Kidd's iso/free lance system as it played to his strengths as a player. I also believe Luka (and Brunson) generated a bunch of high quality shots for Dinwiddie while he was here. 

Am I saying Dinwiddie isn't streaky? No. I acknowledge in KL's post if you read that, that ALL shooters are streaky. They ALL will go through periods of being cold. I am not arguing against that. But its the degree at which the streakiness and the skillset the player has that I am making note. THJ is a pure shooter that can goes streaky game to game. He either is 50% supernova Tim or useless. Dinwiddie was never like that. If he was ice cold he found other ways to affect the game while he was here. Whether that be facilitating or defending.

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