Despite not scoring as many points off spot-ups as other players in the NBA, Young’s efficiency from those plays put him ahead of the likes of Seth Curry, J.R. Smith, Patrick Beverley, Eric Gordon and Wesley Matthews. He’s coming off a season in which he checked out as one of the best pure shooters in the NBA — not only one of the best out of this summer’s free agents — even though his shot selection is still questionable at times.Putting that weapon alongside Curry, Thompson, Durant and NBA Live Coins Green will only give each of them more room to operate when he’s on the court because his defender won’t be able to abandon him on the 3-point line similar to how some players approach guarding Iguodala and Livingston. Young was an efficient scorer in transition and off screens last season as well. He ranked in the 79.1 percentile with 1.26 points per possession in transition and the 62.1 percentile with 0.99 points per possession off screens.Together, they made up an additional 37.6 percent of his offense.With the amount of attention Curry, Thompson, Durant and Green command in both the open court and half court, it’s no wonder the Warriors scored more points in those categories than any other team last season. Young fits into that picture by giving them another shooter who can run off their split cuts, for example, while also being a legitimate option in transition when one of Curry, Thompson, Durant and Green draw an additional defender. While signing Young might seem redundant on the surface, the Warriors weren’t actually as dominant from the perimeter last season as they were the season before. They went from making 13.1 3-pointers per game at a 41.6 percent clip in the 2015-16 season to 12.0 3-pointers per game at a 38.3 percent clip in the 2016-17 season.Replacing Harrison Barnes, Brandon Rush, Leandro Barbosa and Marreese Speights with Durant obviously didn’t prevent them from winning another championship, but Young and Omri Casspi will help them regain some of the wing depth they were missing last season when they had to make financial room for Durant.Young even had a decent season on the defensive end of the floor with the Lakers. Following an Achilles injury in December, Lakers head coach Luke Walton — who likely put in a good word for Young as a former assistant coach of the Warriors — told the media they’d miss Young’s defense because he usually guarded the opposing team’s best perimeter player.“It’s not just the shooting we’ll miss,” Walton said.“We’ll miss the defense, the energy he brings and the confidence he and his teammates get when he hits big shots.”It was a side of Young we hadn’t seen consistently throughout his career, and it’s one the Warriors are expecting him to maintain next season. Being able to make 40.0 percent of his 3-point attempts would make him a great addition to the Warriors, regardless of how he performs defensively, and he has the potential to become a valuable bench player for them if he continues to guard players at a high level. He won’t be expected to do it as often as he did for Nba live cheap coins the Lakers — he won’t get the minutes to do so and he might not see much court time against starting units — which should help him make a difference in shorts spurts like we saw with JaVale McGee last season.
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