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Outmoded Opinions from Old-fashioned Basketball

      " Mehmet Okur became someone else and a player when he shots a little bit in the NBA. He escaped the harshness, wanted to play outside. Ibrahim Kutluay shoots better than you until he dies. If he misses, you will get that rebound. What if you miss, who will get the rebound?"      These words are a fragment from the interview with Bogdan Tanjevic made in January and published in Socrates magazine which one of the Turkey's leading sports magazine.  FYI, Bojdan Tanjevic was the coach of Turkey's National Basketball team between 2003 - 2014.  Tanjevic      First of all, I want to talk about the thing that attracted my attention the most in the interview. " When he shots a little bit in the NBA... "   A little??? We have to ask that little bit to Utah Jazz.  Memo is one of two or three players with the best shots in the NBA among players with 2.10 and above. I'm talking about all times, not just when he was playing. At the same time, Tanjevic probably n