Post by eja117 on Jun 8, 2024 9:36:27 GMT -5
It was a painful conversion for me. I disliked the three for a long time. I thought it was lazy, and occasionally terrible basketball. In particular I am still haunted by laaaaaazzzyyy threes that Rasheed Wallace used to take allllll the time. But now, finally, after the Mavs game......I'm a convert. I have to admit I was wrong.
Because here's the thing; if you had 8 Larry Birds or Reggie Millers or Ray Allens or Steph Currys......you'd shoot a lot of threes, right?
Amazingly that's basically where we are.
Like if I told you that the top 8 guys on the Celtics were all in the top ten of the league for 3 point shooting, you'd be surprised, but not shocked. You'd be like "Wait. Who are the other two? Gotta be Steph and somebody else, right? It's not some random guy like Doug McDermott is it?" You'd try to find a way to make the sentence make sense.
But if I told you 8 of the top.....idk....Grizzlies players. Or Spurs. Or even a significant playoff team like the Knicks or Thunder were in the top ten, you'd say no freaking way.
That's where we are.
We have 8 guys that play very good defense and 8 guys that play very good offense and the deep benchers (Kornet, Tillman, Springer, Oshae, even Walsh) aren't slackers at all.
Because here's the thing; if you had 8 Larry Birds or Reggie Millers or Ray Allens or Steph Currys......you'd shoot a lot of threes, right?
Amazingly that's basically where we are.
Like if I told you that the top 8 guys on the Celtics were all in the top ten of the league for 3 point shooting, you'd be surprised, but not shocked. You'd be like "Wait. Who are the other two? Gotta be Steph and somebody else, right? It's not some random guy like Doug McDermott is it?" You'd try to find a way to make the sentence make sense.
But if I told you 8 of the top.....idk....Grizzlies players. Or Spurs. Or even a significant playoff team like the Knicks or Thunder were in the top ten, you'd say no freaking way.
That's where we are.
We have 8 guys that play very good defense and 8 guys that play very good offense and the deep benchers (Kornet, Tillman, Springer, Oshae, even Walsh) aren't slackers at all.
