It isn't unprecedented for a player of Stoudemire's caliber to move to the three-point line.
The Heat struggled, meanwhile, starting the game just 3 of 22 from inside the 3-point line.
But we were able to guard the paint and the 3-point line, and that's the goal.
Their last game was a close one until Calhoun started hitting from beyond the 3-point line.
Brooklyn hit six from beyond the 3-point line and shot 51.4 percent (19 of 27) in the opening half.
"We've been awful from the 3-point line, so that's not new, " he said.
And such was the case again Wednesday, when he spotted Bryant open at the 3-point line in the third quarter.
The first was to push Michigan off the three-point line, and the Wolverines shot 2-of-7 from deep in the second half.
The unquestioned peak for Lin came with 6:05 remaining, when he hit a long 3-pointer at the top of the 3-point line.
He's Steve Nash from the three-point line on his sixth-grade basketball team.
Maybe the three-point line could be moved in a couple of inches.
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If the Knicks could extend him just beyond the three-point line, it'd give the perimeter-shooting club yet another option to space the floor.
They only shot 37.5% (15-for-40) from the field, but finally found some efficiency from behind the three-point line, where they shot 50% (4-for-8).
The first is that the international 3-point line is too short for Durant, who had 14 points and hit four 3-pointers against Australia.
And then there was a spin-move James did at the three-point line, followed by a pass under his legs, then a hook-shot-toss off the backboard.
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The Pacers lead the league in defensive efficiency and align themselves in a way that limits shots from the painted area and the 3-point line.
Occasionally playing in the corner around the three-point line would allow Stoudemire to spot up and occasionally make backdoor cuts, both of which he excels at.
Lopez did most of his scoring inside but had a 12-foot bank shot and another jumper from just inside the 3-point line as the Nets built a 10-point lead.
The play was supposed to go to Steve Alford, the current coach at New Mexico, who had already made six 3-pointers in the first NCAA tournament played with a 3-point line.
Rivard was 5 of 9 from the 3-point line, with three coming in the first half while Harvard was holding a small lead and, more importantly, answering every Lobos (29-6) surge.
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Edney grabbed it out of the air in front of his own three point line, planted both feet and heaved the ball about 60 feet away just as the buzzer sounded.
The Hawks' Kyle Korver saw Anthony shoot 8-for-10 from the three-point line without dribbling at all, only to see Anthony drive hard to his left past Josh Smith for a game-winning layup.
Denver shot 23 for 41 (56.1 percent) from the field and hit 4 of 5 behind the 3-point line while the Nets made 20 of 40 from the field (50 percent) while hitting 9-of-14 3-point attempts.
Donovan, one of three guards Pitino made take advantage of the new 3-point line, became familiar with leading a team to the Final Four himself almost two decades later when he coached Florida to consecutive national championships.
Anthony secured the scoring crown by recently overtaking Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant with a dominant month of April, in which Anthony averaged 36.9 points per game on 54% shooting overall and 46% accuracy from the three-point line.
The Red Storm's difficulty from behind the 3-point line, missing all five attempts in the first half and finishing only 1 of 6 in the second, gave the Friars a big leg up as they nailed 7 of 22 attempts throughout the game.
To make a basketball analogy, it's a bit like when your tin-armed, non-jump-shooting center gets the ball near the three-point line: You know he won't shoot or thread the ball into the post, so you have a moment's respite while he looks for a guard to bail him out.
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"In college, you get defended much harder, there's no defensive three seconds, you can sit there and camp on somebody, the court is not big, the three-point line is closer so there's not much room, the floor is compact, " says Josh Harrellson of the New York Knicks, who played on Wall's Kentucky squad.
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When the report comes back, often the morning after a game, coaches can click on a player's number and view video of every play he was involved in, as well as intimate measures of his performance that include a breakdown of where his assists were received: close to the rim, for instance, or in the paint or out near the three-point line.
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