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Bobcats Sign 7 Footer Justin Hamilton

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Pretty ordinary name for a Croatian dude.  Sounds like a weak 7 footer who shoots to many outside shots to me I really don't like the european style of play at the 4 spot considering we already have a stretch 4 that can't shoot.  First Mullens, then McRoberts, now this guy.   Yes you want a guy to hit a 15 to 20 footer relatively consistently, but not a guy that gets easily rooted out of the post and has no put back strength.

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The NBA's high priest of lineup data was the first person to point this out to me, in 2009; Wayne Winston's theory of NBA lineups is basically if you play two or more guys who can't shoot, the lineup is very likely to perform poorly, even if it's loaded with good players. More recently Winston looked up lineups with four shooters, and found they were almost all excellent. 

And that's against any and all defenses. 

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A few years ago Dwight Howard and a bunch of otherwise unremarkable 3-point shooters had one of the best offenses in recent NBA history.

The Warriors' playoff run only took off when an injury to David Lee forced them to start four 3-point shooters.

The Heat haven't lost a playoff series since they adopted a strategy of playing 3-point shooters with their superstars.

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Pretty ordinary name for a Croatian dude. Sounds like a weak 7 footer who shoots to many outside shots to me I really don't like the european style of play at the 4 spot considering we already have a stretch 4 that can't shoot. First Mullens, then McRoberts, now this guy. Yes you want a guy to hit a 15 to 20 footer relatively consistently, but not a guy that gets easily rooted out of the post and has no put back strength.

you need guys who can shoot. Read the excerpt I posted from "live by the 3, or die"

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7 foot and only 9 rebounds in the D league?!?!?!? He must be soft.

That would make him the league's second-highest rebounder (since Dedmon has also been called up), there just aren't a lot of rebounds there. He also has twice the sample size (37 games) that Dedmon has (15), and also has a sizeable advantage on Howell (20).

http://basketball.realgm.com/dleague/stats/2014/Averages/Qualified/trb/All/desc/1/Regular_Season

He CAN shoot threes, but he's no Mullens. He only shoots two per game. Most of his damage is from underneath the basket. He's also eighth in D-League scoring. Pretty nice pickup.

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