3 Positives, 3 negatives from Pacers’ Tyrese Haliburton’s FIBA World Cup

3 Positives, 3 negatives from Pacers’ Tyrese Haliburton’s FIBA World Cup: Potisive – Shooting and Efficiency

We’ll start with the good. Tyrese Haliburton displayed the same shooting touch for Team USA that he showed off in his NBA performances with the Sacramento Kings and Indiana Pacers.

Over the course of eight FIBA World Cup games, Haliburton took 4.5 threes a game and managed to hit 2.1 of them at a very impressive 47.2% clip, good enough for 23rd in FIBA play. He finished ahead of prolific shooters such as Bogdan Bogdanovic, Karl-Anthony Towns, Patty Mills, and Dāvis Bertāns.

In addition to sparkly averages, Haliburton also has the unique ability to completely take over a game with his shooting, as he did in the exhibition game vs. Germany and in Team USA’s last FIBA win against Italy, where he put up 18 points on six three-pointers, with some of them being heat-check shots from quite far out.

Haliburton’s shooting was been the reason Team USA has stayed in games at times. The most recent example was a game-tying three that helped Team USA stay in the game long enough to send it to overtime against Canada in the bronze medal game, which they would lose in overtime.

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But while Haliburton’s shooting can be his greatest strength at times, it can also be his worst enemy.