Good coaches don’t discourage mid range jump shots. They encourage winning shot quality and teach players the WHY behind it. Too many view shot quality as an insult to themselves or their kids (largely due to how we viewed/were taught the game growing up). Shot quality is synonymous with basketball IQ, on both ends of the floor. The mid range isn’t dead; the IQ around shot quality has just increased. No metric matters more than shot selection. With very few exceptions, if you shoot > 20% of your total shots from the middy, you aren’t a winning team. Data across every level/league post maturation is black and white on this.