Rudy Gobert showcasing improvement on three-point shot

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Timberwolves’ Rudy Gobert back in lab showcasing improvement on three-point shot

By Jeff Smith | Last updated 8/12/23

Just over a week after Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert knocked down his first-career three-pointer while playing with France in a FIBA World Cup exhibition game, he's back at it, showing off even more improvement.

Gobert, who's never been known as a player capable of stretching the floor out to the arc, appears to have spent plenty of time this offseason getting ready to showcase his new skillset in the upcoming season.

While the first bucket looked good, a new video surfaced on Friday highlighting Gobert knocking down threes with even more consistency and in numerous ways. Gobert made a few catch-and-shoot threes, along with corner threes, doing so from different spots on the floor.

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Gobert's first-ever three came off an inbound play, but from the look of it, he may be more than ready to do some damage going forward in numerous ways with his newly-found outside shot. While the 31-year-old big man has attempted just 14 three-pointers in his NBA career (going 0-for-14), if he's able to knock them down with any consistency, it'd make arguably the league's most intriguing big man duo even more interesting.

Fellow Timberwolves big man Karl-Anthony Towns has had a three-point shot as part of his arsenal since first joining the league in 2015-16. But that year, he attempted just 1.1 per game, proceeding to improve his outside game over the years while averaging as many as 7.9 attempts per game in a single season back in 2019-20. Towns shot 41.2 percent that year and has made at least 36.6 percent in each of the past seven seasons, with the only year before that being his aforementioned rookie season.

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