Great insight as always. Joe has spoke about winning in the margins for a while now and I think their ability to score so effectively in the paint while not slowing the ball movement down is a good sign heading into the playoffs where there will be less drop coverage and more physicality from opponents. Also Tatum seems to really have unlocked the best version of Neemias Queta yet.
Question: with regard to the under 30% 3p shooting, what's the baseline like about that for the rest of the league? I wonder if the Celtics are performing better or worse relative to other top teams when shooting the 3p poorly? I ask bc it seems to me that there is some kind of calculus for Mazzulla and the Celtics for what 3p are good ones vs what's commonly accepted. e.g. how JT will take 3p against opposing bigs at will--like obvs the Celtics take a high volume of 3ps based on creating 2 on 1 advantages, or mismatches, but it does seem like there's some kind of strategery going on there with what kinds of 3ps are "good 3p" for Joe
Yeah that was it; it’s interesting to see the mix of teams in there. Basically i sort of feel like only Spurs and Rockets have very dominant bigs (I’m guessing Embiid hasn’t been back long enough to really impact this) so there’s at least a couple ways to skin that cat i guess
Great insight as always. Joe has spoke about winning in the margins for a while now and I think their ability to score so effectively in the paint while not slowing the ball movement down is a good sign heading into the playoffs where there will be less drop coverage and more physicality from opponents. Also Tatum seems to really have unlocked the best version of Neemias Queta yet.
Question: with regard to the under 30% 3p shooting, what's the baseline like about that for the rest of the league? I wonder if the Celtics are performing better or worse relative to other top teams when shooting the 3p poorly? I ask bc it seems to me that there is some kind of calculus for Mazzulla and the Celtics for what 3p are good ones vs what's commonly accepted. e.g. how JT will take 3p against opposing bigs at will--like obvs the Celtics take a high volume of 3ps based on creating 2 on 1 advantages, or mismatches, but it does seem like there's some kind of strategery going on there with what kinds of 3ps are "good 3p" for Joe
The Pistons lead the league in wins when shooting 30% or under this season, and are 13-10 in those games.
For reference, the Celtics are 9th.
Top-10 looks like
1. Det
2. OKC
3. ORL
4. PHI
5. TOR
6. LAL
7. SAS
8. HOU
9. BOS
10. DAL
Boston is 17th in the league for volume of 30% or under shooting nights.
Dallas leads the league there, with 29.
The median number of games with 30% or under nights is 19 games. So, the Celtics are slightly under that with 18.
The median W/L% for these games is 31.6%, which the Celtics are comfortably above.
Not sure if this has answered your question, so please do let me know :)
Yeah that was it; it’s interesting to see the mix of teams in there. Basically i sort of feel like only Spurs and Rockets have very dominant bigs (I’m guessing Embiid hasn’t been back long enough to really impact this) so there’s at least a couple ways to skin that cat i guess
weird game! so glad we won.
It was kind of weird, tbf. But yeah, me too! Keeps everything rolling as we close in on the playoffs :)