5 overreactions from the first Kansas basketball scrimmage of the offseason

1. This team is going to colossally struggle from three-point range

From the stats compiled on Rock Chalk Sports Talk, both teams shot a combined 15-for-47 (31.9 percent) on three-pointers. That number dips to 10-for-38 (26.3 percent) if you don’t factor in walk-on players. If there’s one thing that this team is missing, it is knockdown outside shooters.

Nick Timberlake was an elite jump shooter at Towson, and that shouldn’t change when he plays for Kansas. Hunter Dickinson also shoots threes at a high percentage, albeit on few attempts. Besides those two, every other player’s shooting is a question mark or downright mediocre.

Scoring from beyond the arc is not a necessity when you have a dominant point-guard-center duo like Harris and Dickinson. Look no further than KU’s 2019-20 squad, which had just one consistent contributor shoot above 35 percent from long range and two starters who didn’t make a three all year. However, it certainly could become an issue when the Jayhawks go on scoring droughts and can’t get anything going for them. How well players like Arterio Morris and Timberlake shoot it from downtown could play a huge factor into this team’s success.