{"id":2608,"date":"2018-05-29T20:09:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T20:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2018-05-29T20:09:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T20:09:22","slug":"wcfecf-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2018\/05\/wcfecf-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"WCFECF 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was writing about the three<\/a> over a month ago:<\/p>\n

Now, during the playoffs it\u2019s way different. Teams expect those shooters beyond the arc and will make sure they don\u2019t get the ball that often. The shooter has all the pressure and that\u2019s where shooting 3s becomes a curse: you miss one. You miss two. Four. It\u2019s the playoffs. Not scoring leads to stressed AF really fast. Then you doubt. Should you try again? Should you pass, drive? If you hesitate, you lose.<\/em><\/p>\n

It becomes a curse. You try to focus on making those 3s and suddenly your defense sucks hard.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Rockets missed 37 threes and the Celtics missed 32 of those in game 7, showing that my theory about the three in the playoff was on point. If they don\u2019t go in, the opposing team gets the rebound 70% of the time. Missed 3s totally ruin your mind and your defensive focus, and then you lose. Which also highlights how good the Warriors are (16 threes made on the road last night).<\/p>\n

Those finals were ugly. Team basketball should have won the East: Boston definitely had the best basketball there. But then they shit the bed catastrophically and of course, LeBron. In the West, it made sense: ugly iso from Houston couldn\u2019t win and I\u2019m glad because it\u2019s the ugliest basketball. Jesus, those dribbles.<\/p>\n

This is also a reminder that stats don\u2019t matter: the Rockets have had an amazing season. Harden and most of his teammates have great playoff numbers. It doesn\u2019t matter now. It don\u2019t mean a thing if you ain\u2019t got no ring<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was writing about the three over a month ago: Now, during the playoffs it\u2019s way different. Teams expect those shooters beyond the arc and will make sure they don\u2019t get the ball that often. The shooter has all the pressure and that\u2019s where shooting 3s becomes a curse: you miss one. You miss two. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}