{"id":841,"date":"2009-06-20T10:37:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T15:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/?p=841"},"modified":"2009-06-20T10:37:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T15:37:04","slug":"kapono-knows-his-range-is-key-to-this-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"Kapono knows his range is key to this team"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can’t accuse Jason Kapono of not understanding his role.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yesterday, Kapono, the 76ers’ brand new designated shooter – acquired from the Toronto Raptors last week in exchange for rough-and-tumble power forward Reggie Evans – spoke about how he might help the Sixers.<\/em><\/p>\n

Although clearly an exaggeration, Kapono said he realized he was a shooter when he was 6 years old – because he “couldn’t really run, dribble or dunk.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Of course, Kapono’s skills are more polished than that, but it will be his precise outside shooting the Sixers most covet.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kapono said his outside shot should spread the floor for a Sixers team that finished the previous two seasons as the worst three-point shooting team in the NBA.<\/em><\/p>\n

“When things collapse and tighten up and the defense allows you to get three-point shots off, it’s my job to make those,” said Kapono, whose career 45.4 percent three-point percentage is tied with Steve Kerr for the highest in NBA history.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kapono said the trade surprised him, and although he knew he might be a guy Toronto moved, he hadn’t heard Philly as a destination.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kapono said he has spoken to new Sixers coach Eddie Jordan.<\/em><\/p>\n

“We didn’t specifically talk about what type of role, minutes-wise . . .” Kapono said. “It’s too early in the process.”<\/em><\/p>\n

In Toronto, where Kapono’s three-point shooting percentage dipped last season to 42.8 percent – still better than any steady player on the Sixers’ roster – the Raptors had fewer athletic, explosive penetrators than the Sixers.<\/em><\/p>\n

And because the Sixers – specifically guard Lou Williams and forwards Thaddeus Young and Andre Iguodala – can get to the rim, Kapono might find himself with more open outside shots.<\/em><\/p>\n

“It’s a two-way street,” Kapono said. “More likely I’m going to benefit more because I’m not a guy who’s going to create my own shot.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Basketball is played at its best when you put the defense in a position where they have to choose. When you make the defense get caught in a bind . . . as long as you have a balance, you have to have the shooter to counter that, that’s what allows a team to go far.” -philly inquire<\/em><\/p>\n

Well glad to see that he knows hes to just throw up 3 bombs and that we finally got someone that can do that.\u00a0 I personally liked this move a lot and think that Kapono has a lot to offer us here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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