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copans's avatar

I am shocked to see that the Cleveland teams of the last decade thrived because of 3 point shooting. I don't remember anyone commenting on that at the time. I am sure that is just ignorance on my part, but I saw every postseason game those years.

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Owen Phillips's avatar

They were an offensive buzzsaw for a lot of reasons -- especially when they went to Channing Frye at the 5. Just murdered teams

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Wizards Points's avatar

the last line of the footnote is an evergreen take. I totally agree, but I also feel like the Knicks defense *did* kind of slip toward the end of the (regulation) game.

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Owen Phillips's avatar

If were slicing up a pie, im giving 99% credit to Nesmith/Haliburton and 1% blame to the knicks

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Ehud Riven's avatar

I like about the Top 10 3pt% rankings that it's not all contemporary teams from the heart of the 3-point era, but also from what is probably referred to as the beginning of it and also way before ('05 Suns, '96 Jazz)

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Owen Phillips's avatar

Yeah, i think part of it is also because in the beginning teams only let their their best 3pt shooters shoot. Now everyone shoots, which is still good for overall offensive rating but probably drags down the team 3P% averages a bit

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