Otherwise, even Pat Riley, who has always been generous to shooters, wouldn't have let go of a shooter who had a 42% three-point shooting percentage and averaged 2.7 three-pointers per game.
Donnell Marshall was getting older and lacked stability. Ronald Murray and Pavlovic were stand-still shooters, and their shooting percentages weren't high when they were contested.
For the Knights, those players were leftovers picked up by other popular teams, and the Knights spent a lot of money to sign them back.
Mike Miller, Battier, Chalmers, James Jones... Those Miami Heat players, in an era six years later when three-point shooting became ever more critical, were quality shooters coveted by all teams.
The Bobcats managed to regain a 3-point lead by the end of the third quarter.
After the break, Zhang Yang, Felton, Matt Carroll, Jumaine Jones, and Okafor went back on the court.
