Those who believe three-point shooting is critical or experience is overrated can make guilt-free picks of teams they hate.
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But not only are such shots rare, three-point shooting in general has less impact than you'd think on tournament games.
On Blindfold Brackets, each tournament team received a one-through-five rating in six categories (offense, defense, size, experience, three-point shooting and recent play).
None of this is to suggest that a three-point shooting Stoudemire would somehow make the Knicks the favorite in the East next season.
Our Blindfold Bracket gave each basketball team a rating in each of the following categories: experience, size, offense, defense, three-point shooting and hot streak.
The problem was that three-point shooting efficiency hasn't historically correlated to the thing Ezekowitz is trying to measure: unlikely success in the NCAA tournament.
Knicks shooter Steve Novak said those changes were already afoot, and that they helped explain the Knicks' 19-for-44 three-point shooting night against the Kings.
So his recent play, namely his three-point shooting, has been a pleasant surprise for Knicks fans and it probably would be worthy of even more buzz if not for the intergalactic megastardom of one Jeremy Lin.
When questioned about Kevin Martin's awful three-point performance on 1-for-10 shooting, Durant offered that he needed to be more encouraging to the sixth man.
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.
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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Those were all steep statistical improvements from the 27.5 points, 43.4% shooting and 36.3% three-point connection rate he'd posted from November to March.
According to SportVU player-tracking technology, which provides specialized data to NBA teams and has analyzed 28 Knick games, Anthony shoots 46% from three-point range and nearly 49% overall when catching and shooting.
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.
His cold spell from Nov. 28 to Dec. 28 saw him shoot 29% overall and 19% from three-point range down from the 46% overall and 41% from distance he was shooting before that.
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