Nah your assessment is just flat out wrong. Denver 3pt shooting is closer in line with their actual regular season shooting our starters are legimatey shooting 14% and below from 3 and almost 70% from the line. Even shai is shooting 9!% from 3
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IVE SEEN HIM
MAKE LEFT HANDED HOOKS
IN THE PAST WHEN
HES BEEN ON FIRE
SO HES CAPABLE OF DOING IT
BUT HE CLEARLY HAS NO
CONFIDENCE IN IT WHEN
HES NOT ON HEAT CHECK TYPE OF TIME.
HE BETTER SHOOT NOTHING
BUT LEFT HANDERS IN BETWEEN GAMES
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What the fukk are you even talking about?
My assessment isn't wrong.
The fact of the matter is this -
Denver were up 2-1 coming in today's game, and if Jokic or Murray shot at an even average efficiency (in a two possession game), they could easily be up 3-1 right now.
OKC's lucky that isn't the case, especially since rarely ever is Jokic this inefficient for 2-3 games in a row. OKC's fortunate they're playing a clearly fatigued, injured and frustrated version of him, where he's having a hard time replicating what he showed in Game 1.
And as I need to reiterate, Denver is fortunate too that they aren't down 1-3 in this series either (they've had a number of breaks go their way where they aren't in that hole). Both teams have had their own struggles in this series which the other hasn't completely capitalized on as of yet. I really don't know why you're arguing against something which is obvious to see.
We haven't shot average efficiency in no game outside of game 2 , we literally haven't shot no where near efficient. Not one player on okc is efficient from the field our best 3pt shooter right now is caruso, Murray and Gordon still shooting well from 3
Okc shot 39% from 3 vs 32 % this series
82% from ft vs 78 this series
Denver shot 37 from 3 vs 34% this series
77 from from ft vs 78 this series
Please tell me how efficiency would benefit denver more than us especially considering they're running zone defense which efficiency breaks. You remove game 2 we probably shooting in the 20s from 3
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Y'all are correct series could be 3-1 for either team because the games have been so close except for game 2. I just think OKC doesn't pass the eye test for me, you could really tell how important experience and confidence is especially down the stretch. OKC had lapses again in their offense. When the Nuggets play zone, Shai doesn't know what to do. He's also not a good passer and never drives or breaks down the defense to create but rather to score because in the regular season he's usually getting the and 1 call. JDub is inconsistent, Chet was non existent today, etc. If their 3 main guys are consistent on offense they're the best team in the league. The reason they won tonight was because of Caruso. He made a few 3s when it seemed the team was ice cold, then got a few tips and steals to break momentum and most importantly he was setting screens late in the 4th to get Denvers zone out of position which it worked because Wallace and Wiggins made a few 3s out of them.
Shais play making is fine, the problem is we're playing terrible lineups that have both bigs often in the dunker spot.
Dort cant shoot for shyt.
Chets flat shooting every 3
Hartenstein basically irrelevant on offense.
The starting lineup is literally unplayable at this point on offense, it shouldn't be relied on to close out games im fine starting it , but to close out it shouldn't be the line up because you can just double shai all game leave the 3 i listed.
