Prime Karl would dominate anytime anywhere. He could have probably been a hall of famer in a few different sports if he had set his mind to it.
I don't know how many 3s per game were shot by this team, but I seem to remember the Jazz shooting a healthy amount. Probably above average for the era.
No, the Sloan era Jazz were typically along the lowest in the league when it came to number of 3s attempted.
Yes and no. It was harder to legally pack the paint back then because of the illegal defense rules. Of course, we also know that one of the pillars of the Bulls winning philosophy was to put the pressure on the refs to call it every single time, knowing they wouldn't. And they were right.
I'm familiar with the narrative, but was somehow skeptical since Jerry Sloan isn't supposed to be an idiot.
In Sloan's defense, the analytics to break things down (what fraction of missed 3s result in fast break points, etc) didn't exist back then. It was all just kind of done via gut feelings, and looking at more general trends such as "How successful are the teams that shoot a lot of 3s?" By the end of his career that second question was starting to be answered, but for much of his career even that wasn't very clear.
