Miami Heat: Is Ray Allen Battling Ankle Injury Again?
January 19th, 2013 by Joshua J Vannuccini Leave a reply »When the season began, there was much controversy surrounding Ray Allen's arrival in Miami. Boston fans called him a traitor, while South Beach welcomed the once-hated assassin with open arms. Allen's first two months with the team went exactly as expected, becoming their primary three-point threat and late-game weapon.
With clutch threes against Denver, Cleveland and San Antonio, his ability to come off the bench and knock down big shots was essential and storied around the league. Recently however, this has not been the case.
Through October and November, Allen was converting an insane 57.9 percent of this long-range shots. While one wouldn't necessarily expect that trend to continue all season, it has been done in the past. Kyle Korver, now with the Atlanta Hawks, finished the 2009-10 season with Utah on an NBA-record 53.6 percent from three.
Comparatively, most would declare Allen the supreme shooter over Korver, so it isn't far-fetched to once expect him to accomplish a similar accolade with Miami. Yet 37-year old seems to be either in a shooting slump, or battling an untold injury.
As of today he is sho ...
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