The Heat shot 58% on wide open 3s in the ECF, the best 3PT% on wide open 3s by ANY team in ANY series over the last 10 years. And this was by a team that was 27th in 3PT% in the regular season.
The Miami Heat hit 58% of their wide open 3s in the Eastern Conference Finals versus the Celtics
That's easily the highest percentage any team has shot on wide open threes in any series in the past 10 years! pic.twitter.com/8AdBRV84uw
— Lev Akabas (@LevAkabas) May 30, 2023
by TacoooJay
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Lol. Figures. Every time they let it fly I assumed it was going in. Frustrating to say the least.
I want to know who that team was that got 22 wide open shots a game and only made 24% of them.
Oh no… it was us, wasn’t it.
Celtics playing high school level defense
I genuinely believe if you replay that series 10 times the Celtics win 9 of them. We fell victim to historic shooting on their end and terrible shooting on ours. It is what it is.
Yeah but that’s why you run out, have better rotations and make life hard on them. We did none of that. IDC how had a team is, they are professionals and when you leave them open, they’re going to make a high rate of 3’s. Brogdon was nailing 3 in practice despite being hurt but couldn’t throw a stone in the ocean during the game.
The heat were allowed to shoot his well, it wasn’t luck.
Turns out regression to the mean doesn’t work over a series.
Maybe we should’ve tried playing defense.
If am reading that right, the Celtics limited the number of wide open 3s the heat got but they were still able to score at a high clip, and it was the inverse for the Celtics, they got more wide open looks but didn’t capitalize on them.
It’s a make or miss league that’s the honest truth.
I don’t know what we did to piss off the basketball gods but they absolutely had it out for us last night.
Breaking news: nba players are capable of making wide open 3s.
Regular seasons stats mean nothing when it comes playoff time I guess.
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Towards the bottom in open 3 attempts too, so it’s not even like our defense was giving more looks than we should’ve… I hate the Miami heat man. So lucky
WIDE open tho, not even a half assed effort to contest most of the time
these are still NBA players
Devil magic
their run kinda reminds me of the Dallas Mavericks on their run against the Heat. They were incredibly hot during the playoffs
I just don’t get it. They’ve been shooting outside their got damn minds.
So ADAPT! It’s called coaching.
It just wasn’t meant to be…i believe we should keep the Jays together, and let them continue to grow…P.S. we need a propper point guard
Fucking dicks.
Heat had luck on their side, ironic.
I’m still confident that this team has what it takes to win it all. Very confident.
Reading this all I can think of is the people in literally every game thread at halftime saying “Both teams shooting with regress to the mean this half”
Looking forward to them getting decimated by Jokic. At least he wins FMVP
Maybe we should have stopped leaving them wide open? If Duncan Robinson hit his shots Game 6 was over. They got so lucky.
They had 5 of 7 games where they shot 47%+ including 3 games of 50+. There shot making kept them in games they had no business being in. A lot of people talk about roster changes, and of course they will happen, but at the end of the day you need to build a roster that gives you a chance to compete for a chip. This roster does that, sometimes other teams get luckier or you get unlucky whether it be untimely injuries or cold slumps by normally great shooters.
Tells you how awful Celtics defense was… Better yet… How there wasn’t any…
True D’Antoni BB…
Their shooting was amazing. I’m curious to see what their % was on long 2s. For instance, in game 7 Martin sprinting under the basket and spinning into a baseline jump shot. Unbelievable. This is the NBA folks. Not everything is about effort and wanting it. The opponent was just red hot and there’s not much you can do about it.