It’s not about your pg being able to pop the 3s, but it’s about playing smart and within the offensive scheme — meaning, KNOW YOUR ROLE. You don’t have to be a lights out 3pt shooter nor do you even have to shoot 3s at all, as long as there’s a system that works and you abide by it. Isiah Thomas won 2 rings in a row, and he doesn’t come close to being a 3pt threat.

In response to AKDave, I have to say J Williams was a horrible pg, but solid play coming from the other role players in Shaq, Haslem and Posey, more than made up for J Will’s shortcomings.

Now of course if a player can shoot the 3ball, it’d be a tremendous plus. But as long as there’s a solid offensive scheme available, EXECUTION is what will prevail in the end – a la the SA Spurs and little TP.

Do you remember what I told you you would find when you posted your last “study’s results” here? … re: the relationship between effectiveness and 3FG% [and the lack of a correlation between effectiveness and 3FGA]

Hopefully you do.

Trust that I have not done a formal study of this data yet either … except, of course, that which occurs each game in my own mind’s eye.

There has yet to be a computer [statistical?] program yet written that can duplicate [never mind supercede] the effectiveness and accuracy of a well-trained eye in terms of being able to assess the goings-on on a basketball court correctly.

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re: “However, it makes sense that a player that can shoot threes not only efficiently but also often will be even more effective.”
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Actually what makes complete sense, from a “Basketball Acumen standpoint”, is that Point Guards with a high 3FG% on as few 3FGA’s as possible have the greatest positive effect on their own team’s ability to WIN games.

Although this might seem counter-intuitive at first to those who do not know and understand how the game actually works, for those that do already, it’s as staright-forward as 1 + 1 = 2.

Don’t forget Jason Williams (Miami 2006). He was pretty efficient with his floor game once Pat Riley knocked the showtime out of him. But his 3pt shooting was atrocious. And his D was suspect; especially on athletic 2′s.

Also worthy of mention is that Parker does not handle point-guard duties in the true sense of the word. He’s a weirdo. An ultra-quick undersized guard who can’t hit a 3 reliably, set up teammates, or defend. He walks the ball up the floor like a PG, but then passes it off to Tim or Manu and lets them actually make a play. So, he doesn’t turn the ball over much, but that is because he is playing off the ball or just plain ballhogging most of the time.*

In both of these cases, the team had an athletic 2 (Manu/Wade) who handled the ball most of the time on 1/2 court offensive sets.

(*disclaimer: I don’t like Parker- I know he scores lots of points and has a hawt wife and more money than me and is probably a nice guy- but I don’t like his game.)

So if I’m looking to win a championship, the guard I’m drafting (or trading for) is strong, smart, can shoot the 3 a bit (for spacing), but most importantly can defend and not turn it over.

Allen Iverson is pretty much the opposite of this player.