Word: three-point
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...used to like to call Bird "Kodak.") That little voice starts talking to him. He's in his backyard again. He's playing by himself." The image delighted Fitch, but only for a moment. "I don't know," he sighed, unable to blame Defender Rodney McCray for Bird's three-point plays inside and out. "What can anyone do with Larry?" What would Havlicek do? John Hondo answered confidently, "Let him get 50 points and make the other guys get six or eight...
...NCAA institutions will begin using a 19-ft., 9-in. range for their three-point plays beginning with the 1986-87 season, the 12-member committee decided...
...believe that the adoption of the three-point field goal will do much to open up the rough inside play in our game," Steitz said. "Teams will have to play more away from the basket...
Steitz said the decision came after a five-year research period in which 20 conferences experimented with the three-point shot. He said research showed coaches approved the three-point goal by a two-to-one margin...
Steitz said several conferences experimented with different distances for the three-point play, but a questionnaire of participating coaches showed the most favored range was 19 feet, nine inches...