RE: All-star madness

["Wright, Cecil" <Cecil.Wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kestas, you are far more intelligent than this.  By this same reasoning, you should be stating cases for free throw shooting also.  Just because someone shoots 100% in practice, does not mean it will happen in a game, does it?  Peja has had some terrible nights shooting the 3.  Should he stop shooting them?  Toine has had some outstanding nights with the 3.  Should he keep bombing away?  It all comes down to what is working that night.  

I do not see any correlation between what a player does in the 3 point shootout and their performance in games unless they have a rack of balls which need to be shot rapid fire alongside them during those games.  Geez, Mason blew a dunk.  Maybe he should quit trying them.

Cecil  

-----Original Message-----
From: Kestutis Kveraga [mailto:Kestutis.Kveraga@dartmouth.edu]
Sent: February 10, 2003 11:54 AM
To: celtics@igtc.com
Subject: RE: All-star madness


--- You wrote:
Strange to make a comparison between taking balls off a rack and shooting them
uncontested, and a game situation.  An enormous difference, no?
--- end of quote ---

Why is it strange? Don't you think there's some correlation? Toine was the only
contestant whose 3-pt shooting percentage is below 40%. He was a full 5
percentage points worse than any other contestant, and his score was the lowest
by far. It just underscores what a lot of us have been claiming all along: he's
taking way too many threes for his shooting skill level.  Do you realize that
he's already taken more threes this season than in  any of the seasons before
Obie became the coach? At the same time, his rebounding is at a career low, his
assist numbers have dropped off significantly, and his overall shooting % is
also a career low. Don't you see a connection there? The three-point shot is a
drug, he's addicted to it, and Obie is his enabler and his front man and fall
guy. 
Kestas