Payton Pritchard is struggling to knock down his three-point shots to begin the season. The 2024 Sixth Man of the Year is converting at a 22.4% clip over the Boston Celtics’ opening nine games of the season. As such, Pritchard has shifted toward getting his buckets from two-point land, either at the rim or in the mid-range.

On Wednesday, Nov. 5, Pritchard dropped 18 points to help the Celtics smoke the Washington Wizards 136-107. 12 of his points in that game came inside the arc, as he went 7-of-12 from the field, with four of his misses coming from deep.

During his postgame news conference, Pritchard discussed his shift to a more interior-based scoring mindset.

“With me not shooting the three-ball as well to start the year, as efficiently as I would like—obviously, that will come—but

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