Originally Posted by
Pelicanidae
Nobody's denying that Ingram's overall FG% and 3pt% is high. He started off the season ridiculously hot.
Over the last handful of games, those numbers have dropped off dramatically. Over the last 6 games before tonight, he was shooting 43% from the floor and 33% from behind the arc. That's a slump. His overall averages have, as a result, dropped: he was shooting nearly 49% from deep 7 games ago, and he came into tonight 8% lower than that.
That's a slump. If you shoot dramatically below your averages for 5+ games at a time, that's a shooting slump. Sorry, but that's just the term for that sequence of events.