3-point shooters the Lakers could have signed but botched
By Jason Reed
2. Bryn Forbes
The Los Angeles Lakers managed to put so many point guards on one roster that Patrick Beverley has to pretend that he is a three and D small forward for the team. This is without Dennis Schroder even playing yet, as the late-offseason signing has been out with injury.
Despite adding a slew of guards to this roster the Lakers still could not find a guard that could shoot the ball well. Patrick Beverley was the best three-point shooter that the team had to offer and when that is the case, you know you are in trouble.
What makes it frustrating is the fact that there was someone like Bryn Forbes right in front of their face waiting to be signed. Forbes signed a league-minimum deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves when in reality, it probably should have been the Lakers.
On this current roster, he may not make a lot of sense but he certainly would make sense in place of someone else. Forbes is a career 41.2% three-point shooter while averaging 4.2 threes per game in his 410-game NBA career.
There are 126 active players in the NBA that have taken 1,600 or more three-pointers in their career. Forbes ranks fifth among those players, only behind Seth Curry, Joe Harris, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson.
Who ranks dead last among those 126 players? Russell Westbrook. How the Lakers didn’t see this and jump on Forbes I will never understand.