Griffin is hitting 36% of his mid-range jump shots (16-23 ft) during this past regular season, up from 33% last season, a not insignificant 10% improvement. Still -- 36% is terrible, right? I mean, he's making 54% of his shots overall, so 36% is totally unacceptable.

League-wide, NBA players made just over 38% of mid-range jump shots. So Griffin is in fact just slightly below average as a mid-range jump shooter. In fact, based on his improvement throughout the regular season, it seems reasonable to assume that he is in fact right around the league average at this point. He is, by pretty much any reasonable definition, not a bad mid-range shooter; just an average one.

It's interesting also that Griffin is singled out for this criticism. The constant comparison Griffin faces is to the more 'complete' Kevin Love. So what does the oh-so-much-more-well-rounded Love shoot from the mid-range? 36%. Actually, to be perfectly precise, Love has made 68 of 190 mid-range jumpers (35.8%) while Griffin has made 80 of 221 (36.2%) -- so Griffin has actually been better than Love from the mid-range this season.

Here's a partial list of other players who have shot a lower percentage than Griffin from the mid-range during the regular season: Ray Allen, Amar'e Stoudemire, Carmelo Anthony, Rudy Gay, Luol Deng, James Harden, Danny Granger and Josh Smith.

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