Milwaukee Bucks: 3 goals for Bryn Forbes in 2020-21 season

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Bryn Forbes has brought his sharpshooting talents to the Milwaukee Bucks and we look at three goals for him to achieve over this 2020-21 season.

With shooting such a premium for the Milwaukee Bucks, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that they landed one of the more underrated shooters of the last few years.

It was a couple of days in this compacted free agency where the Bucks signed former San Antonio Spurs sharpshooter Bryn Forbes to a two-year, $4.7 million deal that includes a player option for next season.

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In Forbes, the Bucks get a certifiable long range shooter that can light a spark to a Bucks offense that certainly needed more efficiency to match their let it fly mantra set under head coach Mike Budenholzer.

And as he talked about during his first media appearance since arriving to Milwaukee, Forbes recognizes the similarities in the two environments he’s played in over his growing NBA career:

"“Similarities. Similarities really to San Antonio. You know, the winning culture they have here, I thought it would be an easy transition here, and I thought it would be a good fit, and it is. It’s been a good transition, and I’m ready to get the year going here.” “Before I even made the decision to come here I know this was like a winning culture and once I made that decision I knew what I was stepping into. We’re trying to win a championship. I felt it from second one, you know. We just had our first meeting and that was a big emphasis. Not just making it to the playoffs or even the Eastern Conference Finals, we’re trying to win it all. I know what I can bring, shooting, scoring, toughness.”"

So without further ado, let’s explore three goals for new Milwaukee Bucks sharpshooter Bryn Forbes to achieve throughout this 2020-21 season.

Goal no. 1 – Maintain 3-point firepower

There’s no secret to the biggest way that Forbes can impact this Bucks team going into the 2020-21 season.

A career 40 percent 3-point shooter over his four NBA seasons, Forbes can hit triples in a variety of ways. Per NBA.com/stats, Forbes hit 39.5 percent of his 281 catch-and-shoot threes and was equally dangerous on pull up threes as he went 36-for-91 on such shots last year in San Antonio, the latter mark good for 39.6 percent.

With that pedigree and dynamism he brings to the table, Forbes enters an offensive system that is certainly far more 3-point happy than he has been used to in San Antonio after the Spurs ranked 28th in 3-point attempts per game last year.

More to than just the volume of 3-point looks he’ll get, Forbes will likely have even more space to let it fly as he looks to play off of the likes of Giannis Antetokounmpo, Jrue Holiday and Khris Middleton. Of the 381 3-point tries he attempted last season, only 103 of Forbes’ looks were deemed wide-open and hit 37.9 percent of those shots.

The combination of better spacing in Milwaukee and playing off of high-level shot creators and focal points has the potential to make Forbes’ life much easier. All it takes is for the shots to fall when the time is right.

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