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Had a great conversation with Sean Powell of NBA.com breaking down tonight's card, three big games in the NBA. We'll

discuss those more in a bit. We'll also get into the NHL card coming up tonight. And I did

want to follow up, actually real quickly. You said you had some tweets. Yeah, well, so I have one

that I wanted to address really quickly.

So Kevin Ryan checked in because we talked about this and at the beginning of the show about the Boston Celtics three-point shooting and how it tied directly really into the results to reset what we were discussing so we can get to the tweet. Boston in the wins in this series, 60 of 144, 41.6% from beyond the arc. Boston three-per percentage in the losses in this series.

24 of 88, 27.6% from beyond the arc. Boston three per percentage in the losses in this series, 24 of 88, 27.2% willing to bet dollars to donuts, whatever that means, that if you go and look at their splits for the regular season, you'll see a similar split wins and losses and three-point shooting. So brought that up and simply broke it down as, look, when Boston shoots win when they don't they lose so Kevin who is

listening checked in and said how can Missoula be considered coach of the year when his team's offense

is hit a high percentage of threes and you probably win how about running other offense when the bombs

aren't falling my response here would be if you look statistically at Boston they were 10th

in frequency of wide open or uncontested three-point

attempts in the regular season. They were 11th in overall actual attempts. So in other words,

they were generating wide-open looks at a top 10 rate in the NBA regular season. You don't do

that when your strategy is just bomb. And I think that's one of the things that is lost in the

conversation about analytics, pull offense in the NBA, and for frankly the people, and this is not you, Kevin, but the people who don't watch it. I showed you, who's your hockey guy that we were talking about yesterday? The Spitting Chicklets guy. Oh, Whitney. Yeah, Ryan Whitney. Yes, and he had the comment yesterday of, you know, the NBA, it's never been worse. I don't watch, but it's never been worse.

I find those things are kind of like event diagram where it's like, look, you actually have to watch and understand. Boston strategy is not just walk up and pull the trigger. Some possessions are like that. But they are running offense to generate open looks. And they are a top 10 team at generating said open looks. So it should not be, well, this team's just lazy for lack of a better term and they're just shooting threes. They're doing things to get to those threes. And I think that that is lost on some people. Well, and I think that goes back to the question I asked you yesterday about if or whether or not that style of play is conducive to a long playoff run and ultimately making it to and potentially winning an NBA title if that type of performance is sustainable.

And largely, I think, because of the looks that they get and how often they do get hot from

shooting from range kind of qualifies that, yes, that that is something that can carry you far if you're hitting.

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