Kyle Korver is trying to connect the dots on his shot again

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ATLANTA –- Kyle Korver’s shot just didn’t look quite right.

Korver had gone through a nightmarish Game 1, in which he missed nine of 10 shots, including all seven of his 3-point attempts.

Jeff Teague’s slump-busting solution? Keep firing away, Kyle.

“Don’t think about it. Just keep shooting,” Teague said. “When he just lets it fly, it is pretty much going to go in. He misses a couple, he gets a little gun shy. And we want him to shoot 30 shots.”

Korver chuckled when he heard Teague’s advice and cracked that only Kobe Bryant gets to chuck that many shots.

Thirty shots? Back in September, Korver said, he could barely get a single 3-point shot up.

“I couldn’t really shoot until September,” Korver recently told reporters. “I couldn’t get the ball to the rim from 3 until September.”

The 35-year-old sniper was making his way back from surgery to repair ruptured ligaments in his right ankle after Cleveland’s Matthew Dellavedova dove for a ball and into Korver’s ankle in last year’s Eastern Conference finals.

Kyle Korver hit five of his seven 3-point attempts in Game 2 against the Celtics after shooting an uncharacteristic 39.8 percent from 3-point range this season. Jason Getz/USA TODAY Sports

Korver also had two bone spurs and multiple bone fragments removed from his right elbow. The two surgeries were just over a month apart in May and June.

It’s no wonder Korver hasn’t looked like his normal self, shooting an …

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