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Message: [QUOTE="methodology, post: 4145857, member: 3012"] And you’re doing the same exact thing you’re accusing me and the others of doing. We aren’t saying to draw up only mid range shots and not shoot 3s. You take the best percentage shot in the flow of the offense and sometimes that’s the mid range Was Rip and the pistons dumb? [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.vintagedetroit.com/never-still-rip-hamilton-deadly-two-point-range-detroit/[/URL] [I]During the Pistons’ six-season stretch of ECF appearances, the University of Connecticut product made 47.5 percent of his two-point shots while also shooting 46.3 percent from the field. Secondly, Pistons fans will never forget the dynamic duo that he formed with fellow Pistons backcourt mate [URL='https://www.vintagedetroit.com/2016/11/17/chauncey-billups-mister-big-shot/']Chauncey Billups[/URL]. To no surprise, the three seasons when Rip proved to be the most efficient from two-point range (from 2005-06 until ‘07-08 when he shot no worse than 48.3 percent on his mid-range shots), his backcourt partner Billups put together the three finest seasons of his NBA career as a facilitator. [URL unfurl="true"]https://fadeawayworld.net/.amp/nba-media/rip-hamilton-on-mj-teaching-him-the-mid-range-game-thats-the-hardest-play-in-the-game-of-basketball-to-guard[/URL][/I] [B]“That was a kid getting the opportunity to play with the GOAT, the guy you looked up to as a kid. One that sticks out for me is playing against him in practice. People look at my mid-range game and say I have one of the best of all time, but a lot of that came off of being in the practices with MJ. I remember one time I was playing against him and he took two hard dribbles to the basket and pulled up and he was like ‘Rip, add that to your game.’ That’s the hardest play in the game of basketball to guard. And I was like, why? And he was like, because as a defender they are backpedaling so he can’t jump to the highest point to block your shot. He’s always off-balance and you’re always on-balance. People all across the league kept hitting me up like, ‘How did you get your medium-range game so good?’ From the tools of Michael Jordan. From the opportunity to be around him for the two years I was in Washington.”[/B] [/QUOTE]

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