Now, did the mid-range jumper abandon the forwards late? I mean, after all, the dudes shot 50 percent on jumpers in the first quarter, nearly 50 percent through the first half, and 53 percent through three quarters. Ought we chalk the fourth-quarter cold spell to an "Aw shucks!" and a "Dag nabit"?

Do you know what Carl Landry shoots from the mid-range (6-23 feet) this season? Forty-one percent. And Thompson? Thirty-nine percent.

So ought we expect these gentlemen to shoot 53 percent from mid-range for the game, as they did through three quarters? Or ought we expect them to shoot closer to 43 percent, as they did over the entire game once you account for the awful fourth?

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