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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2734113, member: 488"] The thing about a three point attempt is that you don't know you can't make it until you've already missed. Then, people on the boneyard can question you for not doing something else, despite the fact that launching threes takes less energy than barreling to the basket and despite the fact that Houston's ball-handler's were overtaxed to the nth degree. Also, for those of you who wanted Harden to attack the basket, you realize that's basically how three point shots are generated in the first place? Sure, Harden took some bad shots, but I'm willing to attribute that to fatigue more than anything else. The shots Ariza, Gordon, Green, and co. missed were mostly catch and shoot looks that Golden State had scouted and closed hard on. To the extent that they didn't adapt is a limitation of their personnel. Blaming D'Antoni and his "system" when his already overmatched team lost Chris Paul for games six and seven is crazy town, and that's without even considering the fact that attacking the basket leaves you more vulnerable to the sort of transition opportunities Golden State kills you with. If you posted Shaq four times in a row without a bucket, would you stop posting him? No. So it doesn't make a ton of sense to try something you don't do as well just because you're predictably losing at your own game against one of the greatest teams ever. You can try telling James Harden that he's married to analytics but somehow I suspect that's not the case. As soon as you can tell me how well they shot on two point attempts in that game, I can tell you that was the result of the torque their commitment to the three ball put on Golden State's defense. True, nobody should be married to mathematical prophecy, but that goes both ways. You start taking more twos and those percentages are going to go down. It's still natural selection no matter how you slice it which is why the better team won. [/QUOTE]

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