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\u201cThe dream,\u201d Jeff Van Gundy said, laughing, \u201cis that you figure something out and nobody else figures it out until it\u2019s too late. That almost never happens. But I saw it happen.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
This was a few weeks ago, before St. John\u2019s ill-fated trip to Providence, and Van Gundy was ruminating about the year he spent on Rick Pitino\u2019s staff with the Providence Friars in 1986-87. In that year, the Providence coaches offices were home to a mad scientist named Rick Pitino \u2014 and his fascination with the newly adopted 3-point shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pitino hadn\u2019t invented the rule, of course; it was an integral part of the old ABA. And in 1979, the NBA adopted the rule, too; on Oct. 12, 1979, an hour north of Providence\u2019s Alumni Hall at old Boston Garden, Chris Ford made the first 3 in NBA history. Yet as that \u201986-\u201987 season progressed, an interesting thing happened. The Providence coaches started to wonder if they\u2019d been the only team that got the memo.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The first game of that season, against American University, the Friars scored the season\u2019s first points on a 3. Then they stole the inbounds, made another 3. Then they made another steal, this time on their end of the court, and this one led to a fast break. And in the previous 96 years of the sport\u2019s existence, that would\u2019ve meant a 3-on-2 or a 2-on-1 to the basket. Instead, two Providence players peeled off behind the 3-point line. Billy Donovan found one of them, Pop Lewis.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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