Is Utah the new Houston just jacking up three after three even tho they’re bricking all of them? 12-47 from 3? I love to see it
A 9 or 10 seed had to make it for the play-in to pay off. This might be the only win Memphis gets, but still.
I made a thread about this before the play-in saying the same thing. Thought it was pretty obvious sub 500 teams have no business playing for another chance.
crowd is so underratred....corona nazis ruined the basketball BTW a lot of other camera crews didnt do a great job of showing the crowd on both sides of the court like the one in this jazz game did
this isn't necessarily to you, but since i also heard barkley say it (since he never likes 3's). the jazz and rockets completely committed to shooting 3's. it made the rockets a powerful team that challenged an all-time great team with greater talent (and even made the rockets one of the best teams ever). it made the jazz the #1 seed without a superstar. i feel like people miss the mental aspect of these strategies. when you get a group of players and tell them to act in a way they are not used to, that they might themselves even be thinking "should we be doing this?", i don't think you can take half measures. part of the reason the rockets could fire away 50 3's a game, day after day, is because they didn't have any doubts. same with the jazz making like 17 3's a game this season. they knew if they were open, they should shoot. if they were in position for a long 2, they should make it a 3 and no one would question them or yell at them. that if you are 5-25 as a team, you keep shooting because, much like a casino doesn't change the rules of craps because someone goes on a hot streak, the math says it's better than the alternative. as soon as you start introducing the idea "shoot 3's, but...if we're off that day, also maybe don't shoot 3's", you have everyone questioning themselves. is 5-18 when we start shooting more 2's? is 6-23 bad enough? do i keep shooting 3's but slightly lesser shooters stop? am i the slightly lesser shooter? that's when ben mclemore's go back to being on the nba scrap heap instead of shooting with confidence and hitting 40%. and when pj tucker starts wondering if he should take that next corner 3. inflexibility may not be ideal, but indecision is a consequence of flexibility. and that's not even getting into whether there's any evidence that shooting poorly makes it any less likely that you will keep shooting poorly (the jazz finished 5 for their last 12) or whether having a bad shooting day on 3's means you will suddenly start making long 2's (as opposed to just being off on all your jumpers) or the fact that no team that misses a lot of 2's in a game ever gets criticized for not taking more 3's.
It's the point guard's job to try to get to the rim. Teams like the Rockets and Jazz play unwatchable "ball." Similar to baseball with the juiced ball, basketball manipulated itself for dollars, also openly trying to keep white guys in the game, and is now often unwatchable as is baseball.
