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Message: [QUOTE="SCNCHuskie, post: 5155699, member: 11200"] Depends if I get time to warm up or not. At my age, shooting cold my three point percentage would be ridiculously low. With a little warm-up time and then having to take one shot, I would probably go with the wing three. Isn’t the old saying, “750K in the hand is worth 1Mill in the bush?” Note: a student of mine entered me in a foul shooting contest at Chapel Hill during a UNC versus Virginia basketball game. When my name was called to actually shoot the free throws at halftime, I realized I was wearing an unrelated orange shirt so I had to borrow a replacement from complete strangers because I did not want to be wearing Virginia orange at a UNC foul shooting contest. I was shooting pretty decent and had hit eight or nine consecutively, but the cheerleaders were taking forever to return the basketball to me, throwing my rhythm way off. One time they even chose to chase down a ball that rolled away rather than reach back into the rack for a close one. I was begging them to speed up the passes. When they said, “Stop,” the public address announcer said the winner was Joe Smith (or something like that) I put my head down dejectedly when the UNC representative put his arm around my shoulder and whispered “No, you won, they just couldn’t say your name!” I still have a copy of the check I earned that day. Had I hit two more I would’ve been in a later contest due to the consecutive makes, plus the check would have been much larger. I attribute the failure to the cheerleaders. Coincidentally, a good friend of mine was chosen to take a halftime shot, which was a dreadful airball. The funny part was, Dick Vitale walked by and said to me, “Man, UNC could’ve used you today.” [/QUOTE]

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