Billy Witz, Inside the Lakers

One of the several areas the Lakers have taken large leaps this season has been in their outside shooting. The Lakers shot 35.3 percent last year on 3-pointers, 16th in the league. This season, they’re up to 37.5, good for seventh in the NBA. I talked yesterday with special assistant coach Craig Hodges, the former NBA 3-point shooting champ who works with the perimeter shooters, about the progress of Jordan Farmar and Sasha Vujacic, who have become markedly more consistent this season.

Farmar, in his second season, is shooting 39.3 on 3-pointers, up from 32.8 percent last year. He’s coming off a career-high four 3-pointers against Portland. Vujacic has improved each of his four seasons with the Lakers from 27 percent to 34.3 to 37.3 to this season’s 44.1, which leads the team.

Farmar’s improvement has been helped by better mechanics, which they spent his fiirst 7-8 months working on vigorously.

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