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Posted on 2/14/13 at 6:58 pm to dukke v
so what you think Jordan was a good outside shooter the first half of his career??
He developed into a really good outside shooter but not until he needed it. He was always good 15 ft and in but he was like 20% at the beginning of his career from 3.
Like I said I'm not saying Lebron is a great outside shooter, just that he's pretty good and for Jordan's first half of his career he was a pretty bad 3 point shooter
He developed into a really good outside shooter but not until he needed it. He was always good 15 ft and in but he was like 20% at the beginning of his career from 3.
Like I said I'm not saying Lebron is a great outside shooter, just that he's pretty good and for Jordan's first half of his career he was a pretty bad 3 point shooter
Posted on 2/15/13 at 4:15 am to dukke v
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NBA.com: You were close to Wilt after he retired. How often would you talk to him?
Harvey Pollack: All the time. Wilt was big on stats. One time he called me up and said, 'You know, Harvey, Michael Jordan can't hit a shot beyond 15 feet?'
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So, during the height of Michael's career, I got the play-by-play of the first 20 Bulls games and I checked the distance of every shot Jordan took during the season and sure enough, he was shooting under 40 percent from 15 feet back.
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Another season, Wilt said that the refs never called any traveling violations on Jordan. Wilt was after Jordan for some reason. I checked the play by plays and Wilt was right. Jordan was called only for four traveling violations.
People remember whatever they want to remember about players. For reference roughly 40% from deep 2 is what LeBron and Kobe shoot from there. And LeBron has easily become a better 3pt shooter than Jordan ever was. Jordan's only good 3pt shooting year was when the NBA 3pt line was only 22ft as opposed to 23'9". Jordan was amazing, but there's no need to exaggerate his greatness. He had flaws in his game just like everyone else.
This post was edited on 2/15/13 at 4:17 am
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