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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 2871083, member: 40"] Clearly, Battle is more comfortable shooting a step inside the three point line than he is from three. Not that he can't make threes, but he doesn't even hesitate to pull the trigger when he's just inside the line. And he makes such a high percentage of them, clearly it is a distance that he is comfortable from. Obviously, all of the analytics disfavor those type of shots. But as long as he's making them... I used to feel exactly the same way about CJ Fair taking mid range shots his junior year. Then he proceeded to drain about 80% of them -- not exaggerating, much -- and I eventually became surprised when he'd miss that kind of shot. I think Battle is cut from the same cloth with that 18 footer -- I cringe every time he takes it, or steps back into a shot from that distance, but he is practically automatic from that range; it's like a go-to move at this point. [/QUOTE]