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#154: Mike D'Antoni on the evolution of offense

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Did You Take a Ton of Threes a Game?

Mike D'Antonio: I was able to dig up some Italian league stats from the 1980s. Oscar Schmidt, who was leading the league in threes at this point, right? Like he was taking, I think in 1988, he took nine three-pointers a game. And the number 10 guy in the league took six threes a game. So you were way ahead in Italy in this exposure to this. Did that play into your mind when you're playing as a player back then? Do you feel that carries kind of through once you switched to coaching? Because I think you went from, from, from the court to the bench immediately. Right.

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