<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">With his next two successful shots from behind the long-distance line, perhaps coming when Utah visits Miami tonight, Mehmet Okur will be the Jazz's single-season record holder for 3-point makes. Utah's starting center didn't always fire away from the outside, though. "When I was (a young teenager, playing in Turkey) they didn't have any big guys," Okur said, "so they put me on the block and let me do my thing (there)." By the time he was about 17 or 18, though, Okur had developed a comfortable outside stroke like so many European big men. How did he do it? "I shot every day, stayed in the gym every day, shooting, shooting, shooting, over and over and over," Okur said. "If I didn't stay in the gym, maybe I'm just an inside player right now." Instead, the big Turk and 2007 All-Star has an inside-outside game so consistent he has a green light from coach Jerry Sloan to shoot at will.</div> <div align="center">Source</div>
