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[QUOTE="McLovin, post: 5037450, member: 9450"]
Adama was told by the staff he needed to shoot at least 1 three-pointer per half by the staff to help his NBA stock. He also did it at a pretty effective clip - 36.5% for a center is pretty good.

Clingan maybe could have a 35% 3 point shooter this year. But given our plethora of other shooting options + Clingan's shooting 65% at the rim, he would have had to probably be a 40%+ 3pt for the 3 point shot to be worth the same mathematically. Most opposing centers choose to follow him beyond the arc to help defend the pick-and-rolls because he was a great screener and was always surrounded by 4 good shooters, we probably didn't need to profile him as a 3 point shooter to stretch the defense as much as we did with Adama (also 3 point shooting wasn't something Clingan needed to profile to get drafted, like the staff felt Adama needed).

I do think Clingan could have been a decent 3 point shooter, but mathematically it was better to have him not take 3's so the staff explicitly told him not to shoot it.
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