The Painted Area: A Deeper Look at Spurs' Signee Gary Neal

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Why someone hasn't put together the fact that, simply by stepping a few feet inside the 3 point line, a player's shot percentage increases drastically enough to justify the "loss" of points between a 3 and a long jumper... is all beyond me.

If you mean someone in the Spurs organization, I agree wholeheartedly. It's been mentioned around ST many times.

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Why someone hasn't put together the fact that, simply by stepping a few feet inside the 3 point line, a player's shot percentage increases drastically enough to justify the "loss" of points between a 3 and a long jumper... is all beyond me.

Pretty sure it has to do with spacing...the spacing on the floor is compromised when players are taking 2's versus 3's. That's one of the reasons why Jefferson seemed to have trouble playing with Duncan last year, because he preferred to spot up for long 2's instead of going out past the 3 point line to give TD more room to operate.

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Pretty sure it has to do with spacing...the spacing on the floor is compromised when players are taking 2's versus 3's. That's one of the reasons why Jefferson seemed to have trouble playing with Duncan last year, because he preferred to spot up for long 2's instead of going out past the 3 point line to give TD more room to operate.

No.

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I'm sick and tired of the Spurs relying on making three pointers in order to win games. The three pointer used to be punishment for bad defense, and now they're running their offense with the specific purpose of launching shots that go in just over a third of the time in the best of cir stances.

What's the difference in making 33% of your 3-point shots versus 50% of your 2-point shots? (outside of the long rebounds the misses can produce? )

Long shots lead to long rebounds and easy baskets for the other team. Especially if team shooting is not a very good rebounding team.

Yeah, I know the answer and you are right. I was asking OV to see what he would say. Thanks, though.