Comments on: We're living in an age of great shooters

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:00:10 +0000

Two words…Pete Maravich

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:18:53 +0000

Im sorry any conversation arround great shooters would not be complete without mentioning Mark Price, Dale Ellis and Glen Rice. Thats just off the top of my head – Im sure there are a few more.

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:17:41 +0000

Im sorry any conversation arround great shooters would not be complete without mentioning Mark Price, Dale Ellis and Glen Rice. Thats just off the top of my head – Im sure there are a few more.

By: The Flying None

The Flying None — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:20:20 +0000

man problems with your missive like first defenses designed to stop stud like bernard king didnt work like one on three nets basket and one a lot wow and hey what andrew toney second tier i would have to consider a faceslap for that one he was a very tough scorer in and perimeter both before he got achilles problems bilaterally and watching coop stop him as best could was always marvelous viewing plus defense was at an alltime low then seems man cripes reading stuff about an era you werent old enough to experience and drawing conclusions from statistics is no way to go through life young man not kidding you either plus ray allen had some lightsout years and stockton well never maybe even 20ppg nevermind but a sharp whitey huh plus this nosebag like lloyd free cripes world what a loser in nba terms even a clipper proves that no kidding right is on your list but they mention nash and no 25 ppg there either so white bias and jerry west well they played defense sometimes then because stern hadnt tacitly banned defense yet because it wasnt the eighties wow man stern a whole hobo topic unto hisself there waits for guys in bathroom stalls can you say john amaeche well stern says illmeetchae in the stall bro bring it and autograph my book please you hobo plus tim hardaway must have had a small one huh

By: Ganesh's Older Brother

Ganesh's Older Brother — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:48:23 +0000

Matt Moore, don’t worry about these chumps. They’re just jealous ’cause their penises are too small and their game stinks. Great article.

By: Ganesh Dore

Ganesh Dore — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:41:54 +0000

what a waste of a stupid article with zero insight.

By: Alan Brown

Alan Brown — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:42:17 +0000

HavlicekStoleTheBall: guy writes a great piece and you destroy him?! Why?! He didn’t say “league” he said INDIVIDUAL shooters! You want to see “some” pick-n-roll in the NBA?! 99.9% of the set plays in the league are PNR! Moore, I thought it was a great piece… Dantley, Kiki, blew my mind! Dirk too! Nice piece man – hadn’t thought of it that way – which, I’m guessing, was why you wrote the piece.

By: HavlicekStoleTheBall

HavlicekStoleTheBall — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:24:24 +0000

You cherry picked a handful of offensive performers and claim we are in an era of great shooting?
Yow. You blew it, like most NBA guards blow wide-open 18 footers.
League shooting percentage last year was .461. Better than it has been in a while, not because the figure is great, but because it has been so dismal in the last decade. Shooting percentage had been as low as .447 as recently as 2004-05.
The era of great shooters? 1980s. Aside from the aforementioned Larry Bird and Adrian Dantley, the league was full of superb shooters who would destroy defenses today designed to stop the slashing to the basket. Alex English, Lloyd Free, Paul Westphal, Isaiah Thomas, Vinny Johnson, Byron Scott, James Worthy, Jeff Hornacek, Tom Chambers, Bill Laimbeer, Bernard King, Hakeem Olajuwon, Patrick Ewing, and even second-tier guys like Phil Smith, Danny Ainge, Andrew Toney, and Jeff Malone could all shoot the lights out. Excellent shooters, JUMP SHOOTERS, all. Leave them, they would bury 7 of ten before you could take a time-out.
In 1985-86, league shooting percentage was .487, with FIVE TEAMS shooting over .500, led by the Lakers at an astonishing .522. The nest year, the league shooting percentage was even higher, at .488, with three teams over .500 (led by the Celtics at .508). In case you think this was a result of oh-so careful offenses, every team but one scored more than 100 points a game (Knicks at 98.7), with a league average of 110.0.
I would like to see a motion offense and some pick-and-roll to restore interest, as the headlong drives to the basket and parades of missed jump shots leads to the 81-68 abominations that are all too common.