Los Angeles Lakers: 3 reasons why fans should stop hating on Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

2. He’s been consistent

Last season that wasn’t the case. In 2018-19, there were only two months where KCP shot at least 35.0 percent from 3-point range: December and March.

In fact, he shot less than 32 percent last season in October, January and February.

This season, on the other hand, he’s shot at least 35.0 percent from downtown in both November and December.

After missing his first nine 3-point attempts in the first two games this season, KCP hasn’t had any real slumps. He’s had only one stretch so far where he shot less than 30 percent from downtown in back-to-back games, and that came in early November.

If you take out his first two games where he missed all of his treys, he’s shooting 40.2 percent from behind the arc this season.

It’s one thing to able able to get hot from the outside. But it’s even more important to be consistent because when you’re a consistent outside threat, teams will be more reluctant to leave you to double-team someone like James or Davis.

If KCP were always as inconsistent as he were last season, coaches would probably leave him open to help on one of his teammates and make him hot some “prove it to me” shots from downtown.