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Who replaces Korver as the 3 point specialist?

rainhut said:
CJ the hacker. So what if he closes his eyes and shoots half the percentage of Korver. The jazz have never had, nor will they ever again have a better 3 point shooter than Korver. But no Korver is great news for Sloan and Miles. Sloan can use CJ to prove the 3 point shot is a bad idea.
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One great season in which he shot two 3's per game. There ought to be an asterisk by that record. The two pevious seasons, Korver shot 39%. Good, but not great. In fact, Bell is a better CAREER 3-pt shooter than Korver. Okur is pretty close. So is Deron.

Korver could only do TWO things: shoot 3's and FT's. His FT% had tailed off the last couple of seasons and down the stretch he was more interested in protecting the record than helping the team win - I remember him passing up a lot of looks when the Jazz could have used some offensive punch.

Kyle was not an essential core-8 player. Another one of those guys like Boozer and AK who is only good on 1/2 the court. Let someone else overpay him at the MLE. Hayward appears to have a much better overall game. Maybe he'll never shoot 40% on his 3's but he can drive, pass and on defense, get a few steals. I'd rather have a much cheaper, developing Flash than a $5M/per player who has already hit his ceiling and is being oberpaid based on a "contract year" season.
 
Korver seemed extremely streaky last year. Going 5 or 6 for 6 three or four times really bumps up an average when you only shoot 110 3-pointers the entire season. By the numbers: a 4-5, 4-4, 5-6, and a 5-5. He made 18/56, or about 1/3 of all his 3's for the entire season in 4 games. He scored the remaining 38 3's in his other 48 games played. I guess I'm not too worried about the Jazz needing to make up less than 3 points per game.
 
I expect the following percentages:

Bell 40%
Miles 38%
Hayward 33% (just looking at his college numbers, I don't know how you could expect him to be a great 3pt shooter instantly coming into the league)
AK 33%

Based on these projections, you would want Bell/AK to start and Miles/Hayward to come off the bench to maintain a solid shooting threat at all times. However, I really don't like Miles/Hayward together, as it will be pretty bad defensively. Perhaps starting Miles/AK, and then bring Bell/Hayward off the bench would be best. I suppose if you had Okur out there you could play Hayward/AK together, but which of those guys is going to play the 2?

Personally, my hope is that Miles continues his strong play from the playoffs, and blossoms into a legitimate 2 guard playing 32 mpg on good percentages from 3. If only he could defend 2 guards. Hopefully though with AK and Milsap behind him we can work through that weakness. I'm betting that Dwill/Miles/AK/Sap/AlJeff will be our best lineup next year.
 
My question is who was the 3 pt specialist when Korver was on the team? Did he ever hit one that really count? My money's on Raja. He plays big in big moments.
 
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