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To: Thomas M. who wrote (240)7/6/1999 11:41:00 AM
From: Eddie Kim  Read Replies (1) of 2233
 
No NBA team is going to leave Steve Kerr open. His defender will not double team Duncan or Robinson. Another defender will. Yet you see this is the beauty that the Kerrs of this game bring. If a team has multiple good shooters out there, Who get's let open when the defense double teams? Do you risk double teaming and leaving the shooter open? Do you let Duncan go one-on-one? BTW, the average NBA career is 3-4 years. Kerr has been around a lot longer than that.

There is one fundamental principle of basketball that will never change: The ball travels faster than the players. Any good offensive team will be able to exploit a team that is doubling down low. Double team a low post player, kick it outside. The shooter catches and shoots the ball in one motion. How can the defender recover? The only trick is making the shot. By defintion a good shooter will.

You seem to think defenders can do it all these days. But they can't. Duke played one of the best man-to-man defenses last season, yet even they got beat by a good shooting team, UConn (.525 from the field). If Uconn shot poorly that night, Duke wins by 10 easily.

Paxton said it best: You can never have enough good shooters. They create so many additional problems for the defense.
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