Kevin Young didn’t just add talent to BYU’s roster this offseason. He added shooting at nearly every spot on the floor.

Robert Wright III, Collin Chandler and Tyler Betsey each shot better than 40 percent from three last season. They did it in different roles, at different sizes and on different volumes, but together they give BYU something that should make a mostly new lineup easier to fit together: defenders cannot consistently leave any of them alone.

Wright remains the player everything starts with.

The junior averaged 18.1 points and 4.6 assists while shooting 41.0 percent from three in 35 starts last season. He made a career-high 57 triples and finished with 162 assists, tied for 10th in BYU single-season history. BYU’s preseason All-America announcement also notes that Wright shot 46.7 percent from the floor and 82.1 percent at the free-throw line.

That shooting changes the way teams can defend his best skill: getting downhill.

Go under a ball screen and Wright can shoot. Chase him over it and he can turn the corner. Send help from the wing and BYU now has multiple players capable of punishing the rotation. His 162 assists matter almost as much as his 57 threes because they show what happens once the first defender is beaten.

Chandler gives BYU a different kind of problem for opposing defenses.

In 36 games at Kentucky, including 31 starts, Chandler averaged 9.7 points and made a team-high 73 threes at 41.0 percent. His shooting improved against SEC competition, where he hit 45.7 percent from deep — the best mark in the league among players with at least 42 made threes.

That is real volume, not a small hot streak.

Young made it clear why BYU wanted him.

“He showed that he is one of the premier 3-point shooters in the country last season and wasn’t afraid to take and make big time shots,” Young said in BYU’s official announcement.

Chandler also had 44 steals and averaged 2.3 assists. BYU is not adding a player who has to stand in the corner and wait for someone else to create everything for him. He can attack a closeout, make the next pass and handle secondary creation when Wright gives up the ball.

That distinction could become important.

Wright is a creator who also shoots at an elite level. Chandler is a high-level shooter who can create when defenses scramble. Put them together and BYU can force opponents into uncomfortable choices before Betsey is even part of the equation.

Betsey is what makes the lineup especially interesting.

The BYU roster lists him at 6-foot-9, and he shot 40.7 percent from three during his sophomore season at Syracuse while attempting roughly four per game. He averaged 6.7 points in 31 appearances and made multiple threes 12 times.

His sample comes with more uncertainty than Wright’s or Chandler’s. Betsey played only 18 minutes per game, so BYU is betting that his efficiency can hold if his role grows.

But a 6-foot-9 forward who has already shown he can make threes against Division I competition changes the geometry of the floor.

Imagine Wright coming off a high ball screen with Chandler on one wing and Betsey on the other. Help too aggressively on Wright and somebody is leaving a 40-percent shooter. Stay attached to the perimeter and Wright has more room to get into the lane. If Betsey is guarded by a traditional power forward, he can pull that defender away from the rim and create more space for BYU’s centers to roll, seal and crash the glass.

That is where the roster construction becomes more interesting than simply saying BYU added three good shooters.

The Cougars should be able to create lineups where almost every defensive rotation carries a cost.

When Wright drives, the weak-side defender has to decide whether to help at the rim or stay home on Chandler. When Chandler attacks a closeout, Betsey can keep a larger defender occupied away from the paint. If opponents switch more aggressively to avoid those rotations, BYU can hunt mismatches instead.

The shooting gives Young options.

It does not eliminate the questions.

A Wright-Chandler backcourt is relatively small, particularly with the 6-foot-1 Wright defending Big 12 guards. Chandler may be asked to handle bigger perimeter players, while Betsey will have to prove he can hold up physically enough for BYU to use smaller, shooting-heavy lineups.

Rebounding may be the biggest concern.

Betsey averaged only 2.8 rebounds at Syracuse. Shooting five-out looks good until an opponent gets a second and third shot on the other end. Against the more physical teams in the Big 12, Young will have to decide how much size and rebounding he is willing to trade for additional spacing.

There is another challenge: making sure all that shooting does not turn BYU into a team that simply settles for jumpers.

Wright attempted 488 field goals last season and played 1,219 minutes, the sixth-most in a season in BYU history. Chandler and Betsey should make his job easier, not turn possessions into a competition for three-point attempts.

The best version of this offense will use shooting as leverage.

Wright gets into the paint. Help comes. The ball moves. Chandler attacks the next closeout. Betsey keeps a forward away from the rim. A center gets an uncontested roll or an offensive rebound because the defense has been stretched across the entire floor.

The three-point shot is the threat.

The easier shots it creates may matter even more.

BYU gets its first chance to experiment with those combinations against Nebraska in an exhibition on Oct. 16. The Cougars then visit UNLV on Oct. 24 before opening the regular season against Ohio State on Nov. 2, according to the official schedule.

The starting lineup will get attention during those exhibitions, but the more important clues will come from the combinations Young uses.

How often do Wright and Chandler split the creation duties? Can Betsey rebound well enough to stay on the floor in smaller groups? Which center takes advantage of the extra space? And how aggressively does BYU use all that shooting to attack the paint instead of simply taking more threes?

There are plenty of unknowns on a rebuilt roster.

Shooting is not one of them.

Wright made 57 threes last season. Chandler made 73. Betsey shot 40.7 percent at 6-foot-9.

If Young can keep those three on the floor without sacrificing too much defense or rebounding, BYU will have something every offense wants and every defense hates: multiple shooters who force help defenders to think twice before leaving their man.