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Sikma?
Off the top of my head:
Bill Laimbeer
Sam Perkins
Sabonis (newer old school)
Sikma?
Divac sometimes
Manute Bol had 6 threes in a game
Bol. Period. Next question.
Divac is a good one.
Ewing and Alonzo hit them every now and then.
Larry Johnson
Cliff Robinson
Schrempf
Brad Miller
I though of Schremp but wasn’t sure if he’d qualify as a big. But that’s a good one.
Channing Frye .403 career.
Antoine Walker
Rasheed Wallace would shoot a 3 and then back you down in the post. If he wasn't so damn lazy he could have been one of the best ever he was that talented.
Only in the baby three-point line two-year era, tbh.
Ewing hit a few in the playoffs and 1 in the Finals before the shortened 3 pt era
It's funny how quickly conventional wisdom melts away when systemic changes occur. In this era, everybody should work on the three point shot as a fundamental basketball skill. So many people over the past 40 years sincerely believed the concept that bigs couldn't/shouldn't shoot threes. Bird was an anomaly, Dirk was a weird Euro guy... A guy like Brook Lopez has transformed himself from a mediocre high usage rate center to a valuable low usage rate center by simply shooting 6 threes a game at a respectable rate.
Troy Murphy and Mehmet Okur.
Dan Issel
Robinson shot a few during the Lucas years
Brad Lohaus
Zydrunas Ilgauskas (not sure if he qualifies as old school)
Bob McAdoo could shoot from deep although he played most of his career prior to the three-point shot.
tbh
conventional logic was to have bigs down low to create an inside-out game and free up other shooters, and keeping bigs in for offensive rebounds. but its pretty valuable having them shoot 3's because you pull opposing bigs out of the paint (and long rebounds make for a good wildcard that could generate offensive rebounds) plus allowing the center to get back in transition D
Yeah, one thing I think Popovich and others recognized was how some people overvalued offensive rebounding, and how getting back on D could set you up for more success than crashing the offensive boards. It's less exciting for highlights, but more conducive to wins. Having a big beyond the top of the key gives him a 20' headstart on getting back defensively compared to a traditional post player.
Suns are so stupid. The spurs need a three to tie. So they kept following manu in the paint with two guys draped over him and leaving duncan wide opened.
yeah how dare they leave a career, 18% 3 point shooter (14% in playoffs) with no real history of taking regular attempts from 3
Classic D'Antoni defense. They were up three, so double teaming Manu in the paint only increases the chance that they foul him and give the Spurs a chance at a 3 point play if he doesn't pass out to a wide open Duncan. It's just a bad defensive decision. Parker was also wide open for a three, meaning the Suns left two guys wide open for threes in a game they led by three with only a few seconds left to play-- why? To have four guys packing the paint to stop a two?
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