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I have set up a Pinterest in order to better consolidate the material I am finding. The website can be found here: http://www.pinterest.com/jshapiro252/the-role-of-3-point-shooting-in-basketball/.

I also published an article in the sports spread of the Campanile (Palo Alto High School's newspaper) on the topic of three-point shooting and the different teams who are pushing the envelope. One of those teams happened to be the Paly Girls Varsity Basketball Team just this last season. With both seniors on the team out with ACL tears, a team of mostly underclassmen and sharpshooters was able to advance to CCS semi-finals by having incredible efficiency from behind the three-point line. At one point in the season they ranked 1st in California for threes made per game and 2nd in the country.

Please check into my Pinterest periodically as I will be updating it with more information, articles and videos I find as I continue to research this interesting topic.

Until next time...

Photo credit: bleacherreport

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1602329-how-the-three-point-shot-has-changed-nba-playoff-basketball

Project Week Something or other...

It's been a while...but I'm back Internet world. While I have forgotten to submit my blog posts multiple successive times, I have been making quiet progress on my project. One of the most promising articles supporting my point is this here: http://grantland.com/features/nba-dleague-rgv-vipers-houston-rockets-future-of-basketball/

It tells the story of the NBA D-League's Rio Grande Valley Vipers, who shoot more threes than anybody in the D-League or the NBA...by far. Their offensive efficiency rating is off the charts, and it is not uncommon for one of their players to shoot 17 threes in one game. He averages 14 attempts! Some would say this is unheard of, but he makes over 5 of those attempts, for a field goal percentage of 41%. An incredible efficiency.

The Vipers have been to the D-League Finals for the last three years and won the last two. Teams are still reluctant to go all the way to the pure three-point shooting theory, but is this proof it would work in the NBA?

http://www.fotopedia.com/search?q=basketball&human_license=reuse_commercial_modify