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First off, I'm sure Hal meant mid 80's Lakers squad.
If an NBA player is left open at the 15 foot range the shot will go down most of the time. You put a hand in his face and the shooting percentages drop drastically. It's a fact. I can knock down a shot from 12 to 20 feet at around 60% when nobody is on me. Put some tight D and a hand in my grill and it drops down to 20%. Why? Defense! For the record. In my hoops career I shot over 55% from the field, over 40% from 3, and just over 80% from the line. That's because I didn't try to do things I wasn't capable of.
Just because the Lakers and Celtics had great shooters doesn't mean that every team was full of jump shooters. Because they weren't.
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