I agree props to him for taking them this far, it's impressive. I just think there's a little more to it than "the threes weren't falling.." There's a lot of room for improvement.
You're right, I think they were nervous as hell. I was talking more about the second half.
There's obviously room for improvement - and a lot more of it starts and stops with Luka than it does needing more help.
The second half was over as soon as GS hit that 10-0 run and went up 17 after the Mavs missed two more open threes and Luka turned it over twice in the paint. Game was dead.
We will see. I'd say that alot of shots inside the arc were good looks. The Warriors have been shooting bad from the 3 all playoffs, so we made adjustments against Memphis and brought it over to this series. We don't live and die by the three, which I believe gives us a better chance to hit at a higher percentage. We had a few playoff games which our 3pt percentage was ****ty, yet out 2pt percentage was solid in the same game.
Luka was definitely overwhelmed. I believe he will bounce back and this will be his lowest scoring game in the series.
It was after Steph hit that last three in that run that put the Warriors up 17, he was dancing, went to timeout ... Game was over at that point.
If anything, G7 tired legs
You're right about those 2 missed 3s killing any momentum. Maybe this team is too inexperienced to climb back from 10+ deficits.
It's been a thing all postseason. Not a guy on this team knows how to win at this level at this point. But that part isn't unusual or unique to the Mavs.
I mean... Is it really weird to look at easily accessible shot distributions and percentages for a team or the league as a whole and say "even on an average day shooting they'd convert X"?
In any case, the shots will eventually fall. The Mavs reminds me alot of that Rockets team we played, albiet more inexperienced. It can look like ****ty basketball in one game, and look like it's raining shots in the next.
Foreel, this dictates as if scoring is guaranteed constant where in reality, there's a **** load of variables factor in the outcomes in games.The shot quality score?
Yes
Yea I don’t see how this is weird at all
. We track how players shoot on contested shots/open looks, etc. I’m sure this isn’t even a hard stat to put together. Soccer has analytics on what a team’s expected goals scored should be and it’s one of the most valued stats in the analytics community.
don't know why he stopped at 7. Might as well put as many people as you like up on there
