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Dead-eye shooters are hard to find in today's NBA

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com

Thursday, January 2, 2003

The new year starts here not with resolutions. Nor with predictions. It starts with a contradiction. It starts with a question Seinfeldians would liken to the mystery posed by a woman who eats her peas one at a time. In a word, vexing. It is a paradox that flummoxed almost every coach or player we asked. It is this: How can conventional wisdom sayeth that zone defenses will never prosper for long stretches in the NBA because the shooters are so good? If & Consensus also sayeth that shoot ...

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