Steve Novak or "Vindication" (plus my Simmons Impression)

Steve Novak was the best 3 point shooter in the NBA this year.  That is a fact, from any metric.  I wrote Bill Simmons about it, here is that email verbatim:

Sports Guy,

What does it mean that Greg Popovich missed on Novak, a guy that would go on to lead the NBA in 3FG% by a wide margin? He was even 3rd in 3PM! Pop is obviously a crazy good coach, but if a guy is that good, how can anyone, let alone Popovich, let him go? Maybe the answer was, "He doesn't fit into our system" (defense and rebounding are NOT his strong suits). But let him go to another team? The 12th spot on your bench was worth more than having him play for another NBA team?

Midway through the 2011-2012 NBA season, Steve True (the ESPN radio drive time radio host and a family friend) told me Steve Novak can't be a legitimate NBA player because a coach of Popovich's stature wouldn't have wiffed on a good NBA player.

It's one thing for a coach to pass on Lin, who needed the ball and maybe turned it over too much at PG, than a plug and play guy that can score points.  It's a question around the edges of the NBA that fascinates me, and one that makes the NBA that much better than the college game.

Go Bucks!

P.S. I have been reading your column forever, so I can guess at some other possible things you might take say, verbatim, after reading this submission:
1.) Novak is a guy that I could tell was good but HATED how he was used by Dunleavy on the Clippers
2.) Mark Stein loved Novak coming out of the draft, and now I have to admit to him he was right... at least it wasn't Bucher, he gave me so much crap after that Kidd-Mavericks championship last year.
3.) Why do all Milwaukee kids end up in Chicago? What does that mean about the Milwaukee-Chicago mini-(wholly one-sided)-rivalry?
5.) It is STRANGE how much influence drive time radio guys have on sports opinion in 2012.  Writing on the internet, the guys could not be less relevant, but it's a revelation to realize how regular 9-5 sports fans get their fix.
6.) Wait, there are Bucks fans other than my buddy Chip?
7.) Speaking of Chip, I need another good Milwaukee guys weekend (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060825 and before that, the column I where I inexplicably killed Fenway, http://proxy.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/020709)
8.) Do you think the guy writing this has ever been to Beansnappers? And what would you peg his weight as? 240 lbs over/under, I'll take the over.
9.) Damn I still haven't caught a foul ball.

I will leave this incredibly long email (like you are one to judge) with a yes to number 8, and you win the over.