If EG has the drive ability the rest of the way... it’s game over for the league. That means we will have 2 Westbrook’s.
He copies westbrooks method to shoot 2 better than last 3 years vs warriors keep missing a lot of 3 points. Other 6 players can shoot 3. The small ball is now perfect. Harden in the middle, left and right side has 2 people to drive and low court corner has 2 people to shoot 3. This is the super offensive mode in basketball. I am surprised the team grabs 55 rebounds today. If MDA wants to get champion, he should ask Gordon to shoot 2 only. He can reduce his 3 points shooting within 5 to 6 times, it can give the maximum performance and output to the team.
I think never....or before they introduced 3pt line in NBA...you gotta love it... compare this to the game 4 when his 4-4 3rd quarter hot shooting streak gave us the unsustainable 15 pt lead that we lost due to being trigger happy under the influence of that very same shortlasting 4 for 4 streak...3s are the fools gold 2 is greater than 3
Just because 3s have higher variance doesn't mean they are not still better than most two point shots, especially if your offense generates as many open ones as the Rockets' offense. One of the benefits of taking as many threes as the Rockets do every game is that you will generally regress to your mean and not have too many big surprises on a full-game scale. On a micro scale during a game, sure, you'll get a 15 pt lead, and give it up soon after on occasion (or dig a 15-pt hole and climb out of it soon after). But getting frustrated with that is an irrational fan behavior. I think/hope the players are taught to accept that as something that comes with the territory in this [effective] strategy. They shouldn't treat their next three point shot any differently whether they made the last four or missed the last four. All that being said, sure, 2 pt baskets are great if you have the offensive ability to get to the rack for a good look and/or chance at a foul. And that's a big part of the Rockets offense, too. But we can't just replace all our threes with layups. It's obviously not as simple as "stop taking threes and just drive every play".
had rockets not got frustrated they would have lost last nights game... they werent frustrated with 3 points variance in game 3 and 4 so they afforded themselves opportunity to lose and they have lost it... 2 is greater than 3 btw in general i liked your analysis but its lacking in psychological perspective and fine tunning details as most of the analytics analyses do these days... too much tunnel-visioned
Getting to the rack has improved a lot, from just the 3 and D formula. The only consistent mid range shooter is Russ. Harden can shoot mid range shots. If he can get open, he should take them when the opportunity is present.
I don't agree with the analysis. I don't think our formula was ever shoot 3's only, I mean Morey has always said the most efficient shot is Layup, foul shots and then 3's in that order. We can theoretically play a game doing layups only, but obviously that's not realistic. I think it's bad when you turn down layups to go for a 3, especially when you know you are cold.
I don’t mind his threes. i do mind that every one is 5+ feet behind the 3 point line. I firmly believe that’s why he sucks so much at them now. Because we know he’s a solid 3 point shooter. Historically. When he shot then AT THE LINE like most NBA players not names Dame, Steph, Harden or Luka
Don't mind a bad night because he's more or less a third or fourth wheel. But play that role. If you are 6-24, you've taken too many shots. He's a role player. He's not the star. I expect him to get hot one out of every four games. But I don't expect him to lead the team in FG unless he's smoking hot.
Your thoughts seem a bit scattered here to me, so I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say, but I'll try to address it. We don't shoot only 3s. We take a lot, especially without Russ, but we get in the paint and take a lot of layups, too. We generally take what the defense gives us, and OKC gives us a lot of open 3s, and those are ALWAYS good shots, no matter how badly our team was shooting over the last 10 minutes of game time. The only better shot than an open three for a decent shooter is an open layup, and those are very rare. "When you know you are cold" is a lie that old school sports commentators and such try to teach you. Just because you missed your last four 3s doesn't make you statistically any more likely to miss your next shot, and data backs this claim up. Turning down layups for a 3 is only a bad thing if you're turning down an open layup, or forcing contested threes. The Rockets don't do either very often, but no offense is perfect, and mistakes will be made. For the most part, we are generating highly efficient shots, which is why we consistently have one of the best offenses in league history. It's just easy for fans to get irrationally upset and blow things out or proportion when we go on a cold streak at a bad time in a big game. This strategy is still sound.
