Lucas: Tough Love

BROOKLYN—Just so you're aware—he heard you.

You know what we're talking about. All those times Theo Pinson hoisted a three-pointer over the past couple of years, and as he loaded up the shot, you drew in your breath, or even muttered, "Nooooooo!" he heard you.

Pinson was talking to a small group of Rams Club members a couple months ago and let them in on a little secret. "I hear you," he said. "What I want to know is, how do you expect somebody to make a shot when as soon as they go up, everyone is saying, 'Noooooo!'"

Not that you were wrong, necessarily. Pinson made five of his first 35 three-pointers this season. That stretch goes through the Notre Dame game on Feb. 12. Since then, he's…