Βy Lefteris Moutis/ moutis@eurohoops.net
Who are the best shooters in this year’s Turkish Airlines Euroleague? Eurohoops.net evaluates the players who have the best percentages behind the three-point line and reveals the top ten.
Who should receive the title of the best shooter this season in the Euroleague? A look at the list of the players with the best percentages is enough to convince you that it’s not such an objective way to judge the best shooters. This is why we limited the list to players who average at least 3 attempts from behind the three-point line in every Euroleague game so far. As such, we evaluated the most accurate among all the players who have attempted more than 54 shots in total in the competition.
Cedevita Zagreb’s Fran Pilepic marginally gets left out of the list, as he has attempted exactly 54 shots. He has made 26 of those at a 48.1% accuracy rate, so he could have been in the top ten. Looking at absolute accuracy percentages, Charles Jenkins from EA7 Emporio Armani Milan was best at 58.3% but that’s based on his 10-for-24 total, too few attempts. Behind him are two CSKA Moscow players with even fewer attempts: Cory Higgins at 20-for-37 (54%) and Andrey Vorontsevich at 26-for-50 (52%).
Several interesting facts arise from the list, like, for example, the fact that seven of the spots are held by Europeans!
MarQuez Haynes
Panathinaikos Athens
Born: 19 December 1986
Position: Guard
Country: USA
Haynes started the Turkish Airlines Euroleague season with Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari and has returned in the second half of the Top 16 after his transfer to Panathinaikos. The American guard has 25-for-60 three-pointers total, or 41.7%, although just 0-for-1 with the Greens. So, the number of shots he attempted when he was playing with the Italian champions is impressive. His best night was against his former team, Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv, when he downed 5 of 7 shots from the arc.