As the old saying goes ?even if a shooter if off they still believe that their next shot is going in?.  If you are after a case study to see if this theory rings true then look no further than Kerry Kittles of the New Jersey Nets.  With his side down with 22.5 seconds left in Game 3 it was Kittles, 1-for-10 to that point and shooting 28% in the series against the Pacers, who found the ball in his hands.  Kittles rose and hit the shot for his team, setting up the win and now an opportunity to close out the series.  There is no doubt that it was a big shot, but exactly how big a shot was it?

"I've seen bigger shots and I've hit bigger shots," Byron Scott said yesterday, laughing. "For this franchise and for this season, the way we've been playing, that was the biggest shot that I've been associated with. Everybody in Indiana would probably be a little indifferent because of the shot against Orlando that I hit . . . but that was the biggest shot that I've seen in a long, long time."

"To make a shot like that on the road, in the playoffs in a crucial game for us, it's a big shot," Kittles said. "I know I was struggling, but there was no use in me sitting on the bench getting down about a bunch of missed shots. I gotta think, ?Hey, if I get an opportunity to get back in the game, I gotta go out there and make something happen.' "