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I guess the first question is what is considered a "knockdown" shooter? Given that the mid-range jump-shot is looked at as a "bad" shot in today's basketball, I have to think you are considering a "knockdown shooter" to be a good three point shooter.

To that end, Carlos Stewart shot 40% on nearly 5 three point attempts per game. Cook was 35%. Baker was 36% (albeit on limited attempts).

On the current roster, Wilkinson has proven he has the ability to knockdown an open 3 (8/18 last season for 44%). Tyrell Ward was 39% in conference play (again, in limited shots).

While LSU wasn't a great 3 point shooting team last year, it wasn't their biggest weakness. They were horrible finishing around the basket and were a poor defensive team. Getting a bit better from behind the arc is not suddenly going to make this a great team. If the same defensive struggles are there next season all that added 3 point shooting will mean is you lose double-digit SEC games by a slightly lower margin.

If you look at 90% of the post in here they are all about offense. Part of that is because of the nature of the game, but other aspects like defense and rebounding are absolutely necessary to be great. For all of the Will Wade fans, his WORST three point shooting team was his best team at LSU (18-19). That's because LSU was decent defensively, and great on the offensive glass and converting at the FT line.

IMO, the biggest part of being a great three point shooting team is getting good shots. Outside of KJ last season, LSU's offensive structure was so bad that they had far too few good looks from deep. If that changes this season, I think LSU has enough with the new players and few of the returnees to be fine from an outside shooting perspective. My concern now is defense and rebounding. Without it, there is a cap on how good you can be.

I disagree that 3 point shooting wasn't our biggest problem, but 2 point shooting was also a problem. Even defense was a problem. We had lots of problems, but our 3 point shooting hurt our offense as badly as our 2 point shooting. When you're bad at 3 pointers, it allows teams to sag, which makes 2 pointers tougher. We only had 1 player that we could rely upon to hit at least 35% of 3 pointers while taking at least 3 per game. Ward didn't play until late in the year, and didn't take many shots. Mwani never takes many, and didn't play half the year. Miller was terrible at under 32%, and he took the vast majority of the shots. He had many tough looks, but most of the offense was geared to set him up for three pointers. A lot of his tough shots would've been easier if Miller had driven to the basket more frequently, which would've forced defenders to respect that. Only KJ got easier shots, and it was his volume that kept our numbers decent, but having your center taking nearly half of your 3 pointers is bad. Fountain was also decent, but again, you don't want to rely on your bigs to take most of your 3 pointers, because that kills rebounding. KJ should've been no more than 4th on 3 point volume behind Miller, Hayes, Justice, Williams, Ward, or Hannibal, but none of them were good shooters. Next year, Cook and Stewart should lead the team in 3 point volume. They should get easier shots, because they can both create on drives, which will force defenses to respect the drive and kick to the 3 point line. Hopefully someone else like Mwani, Ward, Williams, Hannibal or someone else should be 3rd in volume as they benefit from those drives from Cook and Stewart, rather than Baker or any other big. That would make us a good 3 point shooting team, and should also help our 2 point shooting.