Warriors’ Kristaps Porziņģis still believes in his 3-point shot – NBC Sports Bay Area & California
Warriors ahead Kristaps Porziņģis is trying to snap out of a capturing droop that ended his 2025-26 NBA common season on a tough notice.
Despite his current struggles, particularly behind the 3-point line, Porziņģis still believes he can get again right into a groove and begin making his photographs once more.
“I’m going to still shoot it,” Porziņģis informed reporters Monday during Golden State’s practice forward of the crew’s NBA play-in tournament matchup in opposition to the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday.
“I all the time consider the subsequent shot goes to go in. You need to have that perception, you already know. Even if the shot isn’t feeling excellent, I can still make photographs. I do know it. So, hopefully the timing will line up completely, and I can have a great capturing recreation [on Wednesday].”
In his final 4 video games, Porziņģis solely made certainly one of his 15 3-point makes an attempt and shot 38.1 p.c from the sphere. In the 2 video games previous to his capturing droop, the one-time NBA All-Star choice made 10 of his 16 3-point makes an attempt and shot 54.8 p.c from the sphere.
Porziņģis missed all 4 of his 3-point makes an attempt and solely shot for 37.5 p.c from the sphere in the Warriors’ 115-110 loss against the Clippers on Sunday.
In 15 regular-season video games with Golden State this season, the Warriors’ huge man averaged 16.1 factors, 5.3 rebounds and a couple of.3 assists per recreation and shot 43.3 p.c from the sphere and 31.1 p.c behind the 3-point line.
With Golden State’s upcoming play-in tournament game in opposition to the Clippers, the Warriors will want as a lot firepower as they’ll get in order to advance to the playoffs and face the defending NBA champions, the Oklahoma City Thunder, in the primary spherical.
If Porziņģis will get again right into a rhythm and his shot for the play-in tournamenttogether with Steph Curry returning to common kind after lacking time resulting from harm, the Warriors would have a significantly better probability of advancing to the playoffs.
