The Los Angeles Lakers haven’t been the best outside shooting team this season, and head coach Luke Walton isn’t oblivious to that fact. According to Joey Ramirez of NBA.com, The second-year head coach wants his team to ease off a bit on pulling their triggers from downtown.

Walton said that the team will have “every guy scale it back till we start making some more (3’s).”

Luke Walton’s comment came after the Lakers went 7-for-25 or just 28 percent on their 3-point attempts during their 122-113 loss to the lowly Phoenix Suns on Friday. In the game before that, the Lakers took a whopping 27 3-point shots and sank a miserable total, three, for a mere 11.1 percent clip in another setback at the hands of the rising Philadelphia 76ers. As a team, the Lakers are just 22nd in the entire league with a 34.6 3-point shooting percentage.

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Walton, however, doesn’t want his Lakers team to go gun shy from the 3-point area, but rather be more patient when it comes to offense. Walton wants his players to find other ways to score, especially when opposing defenses appear to dare them into shooting threes.

“That’s not a good 3, in my opinion, for our team,” Walton said at Saturday’s practice. “And it’s not the way we want to play.”

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In fairness to the Lakers, they are tops in the league when it comes to points in the paint with 55.4 per game and third in fastbreak points with 14.9 per contest.

While Luke Walton didn’t mention any names, his comments could be a form of an indirect advice for his rookies in Lonzo Ball and Kyle Kuzma. Ball is shooting a horrendous 22.7 percent on 3-point shots so far this season, while Kuzma is 31.3 percent.

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Walton will get to see whether his players are going to heed his advice beginning in a road game against the Sacramento Kings this coming Wednesday.