I'm not much of a basketball fan, but it sure has been fun watching the Raptors on this run.
I wish the games were more about exploiting D down low (for higher percentage 2 pointers), rather than throwing up prayers from the 3 point line as often as they do.
But I imagine that's become necessary because the defences are just so good, is that correct? I don't watch enough basketball to know.
Sure hope they bring back Leonard somehow. Dominant player.
12 Team, H2H, Keep 6 (in Bold)
G, A, Pts, PPP, FW, SOG, Hits, Blocks
W, Saves, S%, GAA, Game Started
2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 1Util, 2G, 5BN, 2IR, 1IR+, 1NA
C: Horvat, Trocheck
LW: J. Robertson, Byfield (C), Guenther
RW: Pavelski (C), Giroux (C), Svechnikov (LW)
D: Fox, Makar, Bouchard, Morrissey, Gudas
Util: Meier (LW, RW)
G: Oettinger, Georgiev, Samsonov, Woll
Players in general have become a lot better at shooting threes
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I get the idea, but it seems flawed.
From basketball-reference.com, NBA averages for 2018-19 are 35.5% for 3 pointers and 46.1% for field goals.
My understanding is that field goals include 2 pointers (excluding free throws) and 3 pointers, so doing the math, in order to get just the 2 pointer percentages works out to 56.7% (not 50%) which still seems remarkably low to me, but whatever. The stats are the stats.
So using the same 100 possession examples, suddenly the 2 pointers win 113.4 to 106.5.
Again... they are interrelated. A good 3 point shooting team will have better overall fg % because they can space the floor, creating more open looks and lanes for easy buckets inside.
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I've always had the opinion that if you know the name of a ref, it's not a good thing. Tony Brothers shouldn't ref another playoff game again.
However, reffing wasn't the reasoning for their loss. Holding the GSW to 0points in like 5.5minutes but scoring probably no more than 5 points in that span won't let you win. But if you told Nurse, "You get those exact same looks for the rest of the series but you can't practice for the rest of the series, would you take it?" He very likely would.
12 Team, H2H, Keep 6 (in Bold)
G, A, Pts, PPP, FW, SOG, Hits, Blocks
W, Saves, S%, GAA, Game Started
2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 1Util, 2G, 5BN, 2IR, 1IR+, 1NA
C: Horvat, Trocheck
LW: J. Robertson, Byfield (C), Guenther
RW: Pavelski (C), Giroux (C), Svechnikov (LW)
D: Fox, Makar, Bouchard, Morrissey, Gudas
Util: Meier (LW, RW)
G: Oettinger, Georgiev, Samsonov, Woll
Tight game but one made field goal in like 8 minutes in the third ain't gonna cut it.
Goalies: If I'm pickin em you best be sittin em!
They missed a stupid amount of uncontested shots.
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