Analytics Nerds watching CP3 and Booker destroy Denver with the Mid-Range

[firemanBk]

Funny enough the Sons both took and made more 3s than the Nuggets in this blowout game

The midrange thing was fine. Points are points especially when the efficiency is out of this world. What wasn't fine was Monty playing these dudes like 45 minutes every game with them having absolutely insane usage rates. Unsurprisingly they completely wore down at the end of the series and that was all she wrote

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I know this is talking about the series from a couple years back but this "the Suns don't take enough 3s" thing was a big talking point going into this series and it wasn't as big a problem as them having no depth and being old and brittle

 

[statuez]

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[DraymondT]

You can win if your top star is a midrange killer to bail you out and get buckets hell even Jokic is lowkey a top 5 midrange bucket but having your whole team offense based around midrange and not takin 3s in 2020s is suicide and we saw how it ended for Phoenix b2b years. I think Monty gone. Phoenix needs an entire revamp.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Funny enough the Sons both took and made more 3s than the Nuggets in this blowout game

It was a blowout because the spacing given by an elite three-point shooting team forces defenses to pick their poison, and this time around that meant Denver got to the rim at will. Phoenix still was a lot more focused on the midrange than Denver was, and missed them this time around, and they paid for it.

The midrange thing was fine. Points are points especially when the efficiency is out of this world.

The thing is, for midrange to work your efficiency HAS to be out of this world. That's what I said earlier in the thread. When you have elite midrange shooters like Booker, CP3, and KD, you can win games on the midrange when they're hitting. Booker had two of the greatest back-to-back midrange efficiency games ever and they still just barely squeaked by in those games, and like we said at the time, that shyt ain't sustainable.

The midrange can be a tool if you're very good at it, but building around it is rough. Teams that can get to the hoop and then space with the three have a distinct advantage.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

And it ultimately cost Monty his job. Go figure. One of the biggest backfire threads in Coli history.