Re: Poor shooting

["Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>]

Player            FGM    FGA    FG%    Highest FGAs
Jordan            65        172      .378        30 (twice)
Finley             60        140      .429        28
Mourning        28        69        .406        20
Nowitzki        46         95        .484        23
Rasheed         58        136       .426        21
Van Horn       36         88        .409        21
Sprewell         42        101       .416        21
Jamison          49        122       .406        26
Marion           51        105       .486        19
Cassell           25         68        .368        20
Antoine          49        134       .366        30
A.Rahim        32         103       .311        25

Just by comparison.  I think that Walker and Rahim will pick it up.  All
things considered, with the very bad start he's had percentage-wise and the
number of long-range shots he's taken, not as bad as it could be.

Cecil



----- Original Message -----
From: "Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>
To: "Steve and Michelle Ouellette" <redsox@westelcom.com>; "Celtics list"
<celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: Poor shooting


> The list was not meant to illustrate anything other than the fact that
> players who have had outstanding careers, even many all-stars, struggle
from
> the field from time to time.
>
> Cecil
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve and Michelle Ouellette" <redsox@westelcom.com>
> To: "Celtics list" <celtics@igtc.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 4:03 AM
> Subject: Poor shooting
>
>
> > I don't want to say anything negative about Antoine because he has taken
> > less than 20 shots in two consecutive games. But the sarcasm has been
> > dripping ...
> >
> > Everyone is going to have bad games. Almost every one of those guys
> > shoots a higher percentage than Antoine and not one of them took 29
> > shots, not even Iverson.
> >
> > The problem is that if this list was drawn up every night, Antoine would
> > be on it a higher percentage of times than anyone else -- unless he has
> > truly mended his evil ways.
> >
> > All I ask is for my power forward to make 45 percent of his shots ... is
> > that too much?
> >
> > STEVE O
> >
> >
> > > >From last night:
> > >
> > > A. Iverson - 7/28
> > > M. Finley - 5/21
> > > A. Mourning - 5/20
> > > D. Nowitzki - 5/18
> > > R. Wallace - 5/16
> > > K. Van Horn - 3/14
> > > L. Sprewell - 3/13
> > > A. Jamison - 2/13
> > > S. Marion - 3/11
> > > S. Cassell - 3/10