KJ Williams discusses the progression of his three-point shot

It wasn’t too many years ago that KJ Williams wasn’t a threat at all from behind the three-point arc, a fact that’s hard to square with his 48.6% mark shooting from deep through 10 games for LSU this season.

The fifth-year forward followed his head coach of four years at Murray State, Matt McMahon, to LSU this offseason. And he’s continued a career arc that started with him taking five threes his freshman year and currently has him with 3.7 attempts a game this season.

“For me, I worked on my shot ever since my freshman year in college. For me, I only made one three my first year to now. I worked tremendously throughout the summers,” Williams said.

Williams went 1-for-5 from three his freshman year. He upped his attempts to 50 and then 63 in the next two seasons, respectively. His shooting average climbed along with the number of attempts, from 36% as a sophomore to a blistering 41.3% during the Covid season.

In his final season at Murray State last year, Williams bumped his three-point attempts up significantly, taking 113 triples and making 32.7% of them.

This year, he’s on pace to shoot even more threes and is currently making them at a gaudy rate.

For Williams, he’s just happy to impact the game and help his team this way.

“My coaching staff worked with me ever since my freshman year until now, getting my shot right and helping me get my teammates open. Just because, if I make the three and they know that I can knock it down, then I have people come up to me and leave a teammate wide open,” Williams said.