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One Of The Best Three Point Experts Ever - Dale Ellis
One of the best "catch and shoot" basketball players of all time, Dale Ellis dropped countless long distance bombs on opposing ball clubs in the 80s and 90s.
When Dale Ellis entered the league in 1983 shooting from downtown was way less popular than it is now. The 3 point shot was introduced only a few years ago and it took some time for it to achieve popularity. Dale Ellis was one of the first players who started using 3-pointer as one of his most important weapons.
Dale wasn't recognized as a shooter while playing for University of Tennessee but he always had the long ball in his arsenal - he was just forced to play center as a boy because of his height. He played his first 3 seasons in Dallas and never averaged more than 10 points per game. In his 2nd and 3rd season he combined for 1175 points and 315 of them came from 3-point shots. During those two years only 3 players (World B Free, Bird and Hodges) knocked down more threes than Ellis.
In 1986 he was moved to the Seattle SuperSonics and it turned out to be a career defining trade for him. He had without any warning converted into one of the league's top scorers as he averaged almost 25 PPG. It didn't come as a surprise that he additionally won the NBA Most Improved Player Prize that season. Notably, Seattle went as far as the Western Conference Finals after missing postseason the previous year.
Following season Ellis was one of three Seattle players who averaged more than 20 points (Ellis at 25.8 ppg, McDaniel at 21.4, and Chambers at 20.4). It was the first season when Dale made more than 100 threes but still he demonstrated that he has become a much more versatile scorer - barely 16% of his points came from threes. Sadly, SuperSonics lost to the Denver Nuggets in the opening round of the playoffs.
1988-1989 was almost certainly his finest season. He made his only All-Star game and won the 3-point contest. Just Micheal Jordan and Karl Malone averaged more points in 88-89 than Ellis (27.5 PPG). That season he made 162 3-pointers while having an outstanding 0.478 rate from behind the 3-point line. Sonics made it to the second round of the playoffs in 1989.
He played only 55 games in the next season and then he was traded to Milwaukee. Dale's playing time was significantly diminished there but it was still solid - not far from 30 minutes per game. His minutes went up again when he was playing for the San Antonio Spurs from 1992 to 1994. Dale was a pretty efficient scorer in San Antonio shooting nearly 50% from the field but he wasn't getting any younger.
Following these two seasons in San Antonio, when he was 34 years old, he signed with the Denver Nuggets. Many players end their careers once in their mid-30s but Ellis quietly managed to produce a sequence of 3 quite good seasons in Denver. In 1996-1997 he averaged almost 17 points every night and that was his second best scoring season since leaving Seattle in 1990. The bad side was he wasn't shooting very well - 0.414 from the field. Dale really fell in love with the three ball that season as he knocked down career record 192 3-pointers.
In the twilight of his career, Ellis came back to Seattle to play there for two seasons. Dale was just a couple of years away from his 40th anniversary but he was still good for 10 points every night.
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