If Kyle Korver were going to snap out of his extended shooting slump, a game against the Philadelphia 76ers for his Atlanta Hawks seemed as good an opportunity as any to do so.
The Sixers came into Thursday among the bottom 10 teams in the NBA in both opponent three-point percentage and overall defensive efficiency.
Korver, for his part, has made hay against the team with which he spent the first four-plus seasons of his pro career. According to Basketball-Reference, Korver canned 46.9 percent of his threes during his first 21 games opposite the Sixers.
But if the past is prologue, as the Bard once penned, the present and future for Korver and the Hawks remain murky, despite a 126-98 annihilation of the 76ers in Philadelphia.
The Creighton product finished with five points on 2-of-5 shooting from the field (1-of-3 from three). That marked Korver's seventh game this season with five or fewer points and his 18th with either one or no three-point makes. Moreover, it dropped his three-point percentage to a career-low 35.3 percent.
Compare that to last season, when Korver turned in seven five-point ...
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