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Kyle Lowry sets franchise record for 3s in a season

Over Everything, including himself.

The only Toronto Raptor who can touch Kyle Lowry is Kyle Lowry.

Lowry broke his own franchise record for 3-pointers in a season on Friday, hitting his third of the night in the third quarter to give him 213 on the season.

Lowry previously set the franchise record of 212 in 2015-16. He also owns the third- and fourth-most prolific 3-point shooting seasons in Raptors history, with 193 (2016-17) and 190 (2013-14). Needless to say, Lowry’s 1,041 makes as a Raptor are the most in franchise history (he passed Morris Peterson last season). Lowry has hit 38.4 percent of his attempts as a Raptor and 41 percent over the last two seasons.

That Lowry’s set a new high-water mark in just his 69th game of the season – in a year he’s averaging his fewest minutes since 2012-13 – shouldn’t be all that surprising. He’s taking a career-high 62.8 percent of his field-goal attempts from beyond the arc, good for a career-high 8.6 attempts per-36 minutes even despite a sizable drop in usage rate.

(Via AustinClemens.com)

“He’s made himself into a great 3-point shooter,” Dwane Casey said before the game. “The guy works on it, we run a lot of sets for him to get ’em, and he takes ’em. I remember when he first got here, I was still old-school a little bit, his pull-up threes were a first confrontation we had. But then, too, he’s proven that he’s one of the best in the league at doing that. So he’s got the green light to do that and does a great job with it.”

Lowry may be able to add enough threes down the stretch run here that not even Lowry can touch hisĀ new record.