Courtney Williams is the WNBA’s most devoted fan of the midrange shot. The Minnesota Lynx point guard rolls her eyes at those who say it has no place in modern basketball. (“I already know who’s saying that,” she says. “It’s the people who can’t shoot from midrange.”) No one in the league shot more from that part of the floor this season. More than 65% of Williams’s baskets came from between 15 feet and 22 feet. She understands why the game is getting pulled both inside and far out, and she disagrees, but that’s fine, Williams says. She’ll just keep working from the middle.
“Everybody wanna shoot logo threes and have a little jelly going on at the rim,” Williams bemoaned at shootaround on Thursday. “But I do my damage one step inside the three-point line. It’s a lost art.”
