Houston Rockets scored 140 points tonight with ZERO midrange shots made.

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

You must got me confused with @Gil Scott-Heroin I ain't into the analytics like that. But I know I believe in the 3 point shot becuz the Rockets have won Chips with that as a focal point of their offense in the past.

I think in the playoffs teams are gonna run the Rockets off the 3 point line and they'll have to take more mid range shots but they are still gonna get a ton of open 3's becuz of the way the offense is structured and becuz of Harden's court vision.[/USER]

And you too must have @Gil Scott-Heroin confused with somebody else.

 

[who_better_than_me]

Like chuck said...the nba is about talent. The best teams have the best players

all this analytic shyt was just something these weird nerds made up to fit in the game because they had no talent to play the game

there was nothing analytical about MJ, Pippen and Rodman

there was nothing analytical bout LeGM, Bosh, and Wade

So hypothetical speaking, if Dwight would chosen GS in 2013 , would the warriors have been better off with Dwight instead of signing of Iggy and Bogut.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Kobe didn't watch his points.


He went out and tried to the win the game by putting up shots

his 40 point month would argue otherwise. He was out there turning blowout wins into nail biters and causing them to lose close games chasing that 40 point mark all the time . How about when the lakers were up 20+ on Orlando with just a few minutes left in game 1 and he checks back in to heave up a bunch of shots? How about when he said on record that in crunch time he wasn't interested in passing the ball and only looking to get his ? You're on some kellyanne Conway levels of lying lately.

 

[KOBE]

funny thing is that this is one of the highest scoring nba seasons in awhile overall. Every damn near every nba game total is set > 200 in Vegas

Him back in the league + the Warriors got every team changing up

Personally I think the mid-2000's squads started it and then Spurs spread it across the league with their 2013-2014 run. The corner 3 was established as the best possible shot, 3 pointers were outright being accepted as far better than 2(as 3>2 is basic as it gets).

Not to mention most of the talented big men are still young and so the league was adapting to the poor post big men that were coming in.

I think this might be a peak for awhile before it tames down down in about 5 years. Right now we two of the best shooters of all time on the same team hitting some outrageous shyt and that's causing the spread to the lower levels.

If Embiid stays healthy and can take over we might get some more players that work out in the post and play it that way. We got some good bigs coming up, they just need the right teams around them to shine.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Personally I think the mid-2000's squads started it and then Spurs spread it across the league with their 2013-2014 run. The corner 3 was established as the best possible shot, 3 pointers were outright being accepted as far better than 2(as 3>2 is basic as it gets).

Not to mention most of the talented big men are still young and so the league was adapting to the poor post big men that were coming in.

I think this might be a peak for awhile before it tames down down in about 5 years. Right now we two of the best shooters of all time on the same team hitting some outrageous shyt and that's causing the spread to the lower levels.

If Embiid stays healthy and can take over we might get some more players that work out in the post and play it that way. We got some good bigs coming up, they just need the right teams around them to shine.

There's always room for great post players. I think the key to seeing great low post centers get their shine again is that now you'll have to surround them with shooters and they'll have to be quality passers to offset double teams so that they'll get their chances to play straight up on the low block. Allowing the zone some 16 years back made it a lot tougher for them.

 

[KOBE]

nikkaz in this thread applaudin the excessive threes are the nikkaz that chose to buy a certain CD over another one because it has more songs. The CD they decided not to buy was somethin' classic like Illmatic or some shyt.

"Bu.....bu........ bu.....But this Skull Dugery got 18 tracks!"

Rather than trying to listen to any new artists, you just got illmatic on repeat.

this is enjoying something completely different rather than everyone running the same type of shyt. Ya everybody shoots threes in the league, but no one does it like shyt which makes it fun. Rather than actual ball movement sometimes you just let the gunners go and live and die with the results. That's what's fun. There isn't a bunch of corner threes, it's whatever whenever.

 

[FakeNews]

 

[Tha_Mac]

This is what I was talking about in one of my posts. This can't happen but if your shooting 3's off of passes from Harden/Bev/Lou Will penetration or quick passes when the D is sagging in the lane there's no issues with that.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

that's not analytics. That's being 3-happy to the point of retardation.

 

[Floyd Pinkerton]

That last 3 by ariza was something else....there was like 40 seconds left and the game was getting close. This dude shot a 3 with like 17 seconds in the shot clock

Morey probably cried tears of joy when he saw that. This moreyball is something else.

Anyway. This shyt don't work in the playoffs. Once the refs stop giving you them calls you lose every time.

 

[Originalman]

You know Cavs shoot the second most 3's right?

That is true but I will admit that the Cavs brand of basketball is much prettier though. They have better movement than houston.

Even the Warriors that shoot a ton of 3s is prettier basketball than houston because they also have a lot of ball movement.

Houston is basically kick and drive with some pick and rolls. They run no flashes in the paint, no high post or low post action none of that which the cavs and warriors run.

 

[Originalman]

Also want to say that I am not surprised that Harden is doing this. Even when he was with the Thunder you could tell he was the best passer on the team and had PG like passing ability.

 

[FlyRy]

To a certain extent Lebron started this stat watching shyt, always needing that 27 7 and 7

You know what stat 27 7 and 7 is?

Nothing :smugford:

 

[DonKnock]

That is true but I will admit that the Cavs brand of basketball is much prettier though. They have better movement than houston.

Even the Warriors that shoot a ton of 3s is prettier basketball than houston because they also have a lot of ball movement.

Houston is basically kick and drive with some pick and rolls. They run no flashes in the paint, no high post or low post action none of that which the cavs and warriors run.

I don't think it benefits us to run a bunch of guys off screens when we need those guys to have energy to overcompensate on defense. Harden draws enough attention already.


If brehs want to watch something pretty I'm sure Harden can reccommend some strippers

 

[010101]

they keep defending how they defending this is how the future is gonna look jahahahahaa
offenses adjust to beat the style of defense
stretch til it's pull ups from center court

yessssssssssssssssss

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