Dear Alan Hahn, pt.2

I've been writing this guy an email every morning, so I figured I'd just post it here as well. I'll cut and paste any responses i get. If this becomes too much or starts getting annoying, let me know and I'll stop posting them. Until then . . .

Quick question, completely unrelated to this post (my apologies in advance). There was a ton of talk this summer about D-Lee working hard on his jumper. I read articles and heard interviews from him saying that he was putting up a few hundred shots a day from the baseline, foul line extended, etc. Watching last nights game, it looked like he still couldn't shoot his way out of a paper bag from anywhere beyond 10 feet. Do you have any sense whether or not his jumper is going to come around? Obviously, with Z-bo and E-City down low, David is going to need to play a lot of the 3 and it is even more important than last season that the defense respect his shot enough that they are forced to come out and guard Lee instead of sitting on the bigs. This was really magnified in the waning games of last season with our deplted lineup when sometimes three of Jeffries, Malik, Ro Show and D-Lee were on the court with Eddy. There were essentially three extra defenders who didn't need to guard the perimeter and could just collapse on Eddy when he received the ball or even deny the inbound pass. Speaking of which, why can Jamal so effortlessly throw his patented alley-hoop to Eddy from the top of the key, but can't make the simple pass to feed the post without turning it over? Isn't ballfake-step across the body-bounce pass one of the most rudimentary functions in the game?