It isn't unprecedented for a player of Stoudemire's caliber to move to the three-point line.
Somehow they were worse the closer they got to the backboard 3 of 31 inside the three-point line.
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The first was to push Michigan off the three-point line, and the Wolverines shot 2-of-7 from deep in the second half.
He's Steve Nash from the three-point line on his sixth-grade basketball team.
Maybe the three-point line could be moved in a couple of inches.
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If the Knicks could extend him just beyond the three-point line, it'd give the perimeter-shooting club yet another option to space the floor.
They only shot 37.5% (15-for-40) from the field, but finally found some efficiency from behind the three-point line, where they shot 50% (4-for-8).
And then there was a spin-move James did at the three-point line, followed by a pass under his legs, then a hook-shot-toss off the backboard.
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Occasionally playing in the corner around the three-point line would allow Stoudemire to spot up and occasionally make backdoor cuts, both of which he excels at.
The Hawks' Kyle Korver saw Anthony shoot 8-for-10 from the three-point line without dribbling at all, only to see Anthony drive hard to his left past Josh Smith for a game-winning layup.
With 8:16 left in the first quarter against the Jazz the only game Lin and Anthony have played together since Lin became a starter Lin threw a crisp pass to an open Landry Fields outside the three-point line.
Anthony secured the scoring crown by recently overtaking Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant with a dominant month of April, in which Anthony averaged 36.9 points per game on 54% shooting overall and 46% accuracy from the three-point line.
To make a basketball analogy, it's a bit like when your tin-armed, non-jump-shooting center gets the ball near the three-point line: You know he won't shoot or thread the ball into the post, so you have a moment's respite while he looks for a guard to bail him out.
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"In college, you get defended much harder, there's no defensive three seconds, you can sit there and camp on somebody, the court is not big, the three-point line is closer so there's not much room, the floor is compact, " says Josh Harrellson of the New York Knicks, who played on Wall's Kentucky squad.
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When the report comes back, often the morning after a game, coaches can click on a player's number and view video of every play he was involved in, as well as intimate measures of his performance that include a breakdown of where his assists were received: close to the rim, for instance, or in the paint or out near the three-point line.
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Rivard was 5 of 9 from the 3-point line, with three coming in the first half while Harvard was holding a small lead and, more importantly, answering every Lobos (29-6) surge.
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Donovan, one of three guards Pitino made take advantage of the new 3-point line, became familiar with leading a team to the Final Four himself almost two decades later when he coached Florida to consecutive national championships.
He kept scoring efficiently (and was 7-for-10 from the three-point arc), scoring both off jump shots and from the line, to bring his total to 42 heading into the fourth.
Vegas has the Patriots around a three-point Super Bowl favorite, but nobody's paying attention to the line.
Bookmakers agreed, saying the line on the game currently the Patriots are three-point favorites would almost certainly tighten if Gronkowski were ruled out of the game.
European skipper Nick Faldo had seen his side reduce Friday's three-point deficit to two after a rallying performance on Saturday and he decided to select a bold line-up for the Sunday singles.
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