Does the Knicks curve ball affect Boston? Behind the 3-point drums of the Celtics

The first step in the direction of your opponent is missing an NBA playoff record number of 3-noon, such as A tonne from 3-converter.

In order to be clear, this was not the goal of New York Knicks in the game of the Eastern Conference of the semi -finals of the Eastern Conference.

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“I don’t think you want To force them to force them in 3s, ”said Knick’s striker Josh hard after the game.“ We don’t want them to shoot more 3s. They have great protecting. We only tried to make it difficult to play physically and do things like that. They never want such a team to turn more 3S. We tried to take 3s away, and they still got up 60. ”

That the Boston Celtics only played an important role in New York to delete a 20-point deficit and send the game into the extension, where a phenomenal extra session attempt by Mikal Bridges led the Knicks to a 108-105 angered victory. The question was also invited on Monday between the last summer and the opening tip of Game 2 on Wednesday: Was the bad Celtics shooting, good Knicks defense or a little bit of both?

As usual, the answer is probably in the eye of the viewer.

According to the tracking data from NBA.com, Boston, with a New York defender, gone space between the shooter and 7-against-24 triangle with a New York defender with at least 6 feet between the shooter and the next Knick 7-for-32. But that is also in the eye of the viewer, because when they go back and watch the long ball of the Celtics, they don’t see 56 open appearance; Another side on the league status site attributes the Knicks in game 1 with 24 of Boston’s 3-clay.

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Appropriate evaluators cannot agree to what makes a good look or a bad look and a hard or soft competition. Although “reasonable” is not always an adjective that is connected to the extremely quotable Joe Mazzulla, the Celtics head coach, on the whole, felt quite positive about the attempts of his team.

“For me, I look at the process and the quality of the shooting,” said Mazzulla after game 1. “So our shot quality was high. The points in the color were even. We still have a layup when they shot.

The numbers form the view of Mazzulla.

According to the PBP statistics-hide quality model, which takes into account a number of factors-shooting distance, shooting angle, time and score in the game, whether ownership began a dead ball or a living etc. not The factor for the identity of the rifle or defender, the expected effective effective field target percentage of Celtics in game 1 was 53.2%, an approximately medium brand in this off-season. Her actually Effective field target percentage in game 1: 42.8%… This is your second worst shooting performance of the season and one of your dozen worst in the past four years.

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Synergy Sports Shot Quality Tracking model does Factor in the removal of the defenders and some of these other time/point/situation elements when determining the expected points per shot (PPS) in a certain attempt. The synergy quality of Celtics from Celtics: 1.07 expected PPS. Your actual PPS: 0.86. This gap between expectation and reality is -0.21 gap between Boston’s worst shot trip of the season and the worst since a loss of the Pacer, in which the C shot only 38.6%.

The kinks, however,? Worse average floors, both according to PBP statistics and synergy, but better shooting ice efficiency. Make-or-Miss League and all of that.

“Take a look at the process,” said Mazzulla after game 1.

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Mazzulla repeated these feelings at Celtics practice on Tuesday and said that with the exception of “10 or 11 they were likely to take back”, “he loved the vast majority” of Boston’s 3-point attempted attempt and obviously, he got a kick from the exception of questions, such as the insulted recordings of his team created, while the kinks approaches that were down, and that was adapted by Knicks Approaches that were down: