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Originally Posted by longsufferingmavsfan
So basically you're saying that even though Stephen Jackson was the best player most of the time last season on that warriors team other teams defenses weren't focused on stopping him because of who he was? Seriously? What I think is that no matter who you are if you're the best player on a team Nba defenses will try to limit you. Why wouldn't they? They would say "Oh, just let Stephen Jackson kill us"?
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There's a (fairly extensive) gray area between gameplanning to shut a player down and "letting a player kill you." Of COURSE opposing teams tried to defend him. The point is that there is absolutely no excuse for him shooting a horrendous 41% from the field and 33% from three. Whatever defensive attention he was getting as the team's best player, it wasn't enough to justify those awful percentages. I guarantee you Stephen Jackson wasn't facing double teams every time down the court.
The fact of the matter is, the guy is not that great of a shooter. In fact, he's a worse shooter than Josh Howard (who is also not a very good shooter). He's decent, but Mavs fans perceptions of him are horribly tainted by the fact that he had an aberrational, fantastic shooting performance in that playoff series two years ago.