RE: Bird's Shooting %

[Dan <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

Your right, can't argue with the stats. However there is one big
difference, he had the other two guys, Parish and McHale. They may have
made 1/3 of his shots easier. Don't think we would have won 7 games so far
if Walker didn't gun. Who else on the team has his shot selection? Seems
like one big training camp this year anyway, let him hone is arsenal of
shots. Ahhhhh, I can still see Bird's fall away, nothing but net.

>Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 16:31:48 -0500
>From: Charles Jowett <jowett_charles@waters.com>
>Subject: RE: Bird's Shooting % 
>
>C'mon Dan, there's no way Bird can be compared with Walker. One of Bird's
>best attributes was that he scored a lot of points while shooting at a
>very high percentage. This year, Walker is shooting at 41.9 %. For a
>forward, that is exceedingly low. Bird, at the time, was the first player
>in history to shoot over 50 % from the field and over ninety percent from
>the line in the same season. For the most part, Bird shot either above or
>close to fifty percent from the field while scoring over 20 points a game.
>At the tail end of his career, why people were getting on him so much,
>saying that he was only a shadow of his former self, besides his declining
>numbers, was his FG percentage. Even then, he shot about 45.4%. 
>
>=======================================================
>Birds Career %'s for regular season games from the Boston Globe, 
>Wednesday, August 19, 1992, page 66.
>
>Year   FG% FT%  Notes
>79-80  47.4  83.6
>80-81  47.8  86.3  Championship year
>81-82  50.3  86.3
>82-83  50.4  84.0
>93-84  49.2  88.8  Championship year
>84-85  52.2  88.2
>85-86  49.6  89.6  Championship year
>86-87  52.5  91.0
>87-88  52.7  91.6
>88-89  47.1  94.7  Played only 6 games
>89-90  47.3  93.0
>90-91  45.4  89.1
>91-92  46.6  92.6
>
>Charles
>
>