Hopefully the midrange game returns next season

[King Harlem]

I get the midrange game, but why don't teams post up big men anymore?
I watch entire games where teams don't even throw the ball down low anymore and in theory if you get a post player going it gets (1) teams in foul trouble and (2) provide open threes for their team mates.

 

[Left.A1]

Shooting 40 3’s Worked fine for the Warriors tonight

 

[jerzboy]

Once again, white people removing the feeling of everything and making it an equation, lmao

 

[tremonthustler1]

7 for 44.

All that math has to go out the window, and common sense has to kick in at some point. There's no justifying missing 37 threes.

Missing 37 threes is inexcusable.

A bunch of those three point shots came off kickouts where the player at least had a foul ready to be drawn on them before passing. Analytics would tell you that's stupid too.

 

[DPresidential]

They gonna have to move the 3 point line back.

I would be for this.

 

[the cool]

Make a 4pt line

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

I get the midrange game, but why don't teams post up big men anymore?
I watch entire games where teams don't even throw the ball down low anymore and in theory if you get a post player going it gets (1) teams in foul trouble and (2) provide open threes for their team mates.

Because you don’t have to wait for someone to have the ball to send a double team post 2001 and can cross the lane to close the passing lanes. It takes a while to get the post up set and you need good floor spacing to even make it viable to try.

 

[Big Boss]

Mid range game is underrated

 

[ALonelyDad]

difference between Warriors and Rockets is if Warriors shots are not going, they do go to midrange with KD and Klay..Rockets refuse to do that, Harden and Paul would be great doing that

 

[who_better_than_me]

D'Antoni/Morey would've had him jacking up 3s too

Lies. The midrange jumper is a lost art. If you show you hit it at a good respectable rate. They give you the green light to shoot it. CP3 shot the midrange at will. So did Beasley, Terry and Lin when they played for houston.

 

[ryderldb]

Shooting 40 3’s Worked fine for the Warriors tonight

It helps that the Warriors got 3 of the best shooters of all time.

 

[NoMorePie]

Chris Paul and LaMarcus aldridge are mid range kings.


Ironically enough, they both are gonna be on the same team next season

 

[TrebleMan]

Not trying to bash the amount of threes a team makes. If it works, great stick to it.

That said, you need a fallback plan when it doesn't work.

The best scorers can beat you in a number of ways and don't keep trying the same thing when it's not working. They take what the defense gives them.

KD is a great 3 point shooter, but dude mixed it up tonight by hitting mid-long 2's and was draining them in Gordon's face. Dude didn't get the mismatch pass out and try to set-up a 3, instead he took the high percentage shot right there. Putting up 2 points on the board > missing 3 three point shots in a row.

NBAsavant.com: Your Source For Advanced NBA Analytics

 

[BrothaZay]

not unless you make the midrange shots worth 3 pts as well

if youre a volume shooter and shoot 50% from the 2 youre getting the same amount of points as if youre shooting 33% from the 3...you gotta understand that math doesnt lie...and making 3s at 33% if you have a shot is generally easier than shooting 50% from the midrange

nikka shut up

If Houston was shooting 2s instead of 3s they would be in the finals right now

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

My nikka fukk the numbers, basketball isn’t played like that. If your threes aren’t falling, continuously shooting them contested isn’t going to work. In fact it’s one of the dumbest things you can do. Do you play ball? If so, what Is the first thing you do? Not threes! You start with Form shots and work your way back. Same thing. If your shots aren’t falling what do you do? You go to the free throw line and work on your form, free throws off? You get on the block and do form shots. Also long 3s equals long rebounds which means fast break opportunities for the other team. AND Ariza for example was putting a lot of energy on defense which was taxing his knees, analytics don’t factor that shyt. do you think launching 3’s with tired legs is good? There’s too many factors involved in basketball to break things down into numbers and run with it.

I couldn't have said this better myself. The stat nerds & analytics geeks don't understand this.