NBA Season/Playoffs 2025-26

[ozgod]

Spurs 14-26 from 3 1st half for 53%
Then 3-17 from 3 2nd half

Very Celtics like 

[ozgod]

And for 2s

14-21 for 66% 1st half
5-22 for 23% the 2nd half

They made eight baskets total the entire second half? Five twos and three threes

[Goldstar88]

Julian Champagnie was really bad all game. The coach played Barnes zero minutes. A guy that has won a championship and averaged 26mpg during the regular season.

This coach is a moron.

[SparzWizard]

Julian Champagnie was really bad all game. The coach played Barnes zero minutes. A guy that has won a championship and averaged 26mpg during the regular season.

This coach is a moron.

Not as bad as Keldon Johnson who should never see a basketball court again. Yikes. Spurs Nation itching to get rid of KJ and Fox before their dynasty begins

[SparzWizard]

The Spurs were hurting with the Game 6 Ray Allen shot, and now they have to deal with the worst choke job in NBA finals history.

Coach Pop would not have let tonight's choke job happened. The minute they chucked a second 3 in the 2nd half he'd call timeout. Can't believe they missed like eight 3s in a row. In line with the Celtics chucking those...gave me PTSD

[SparzWizard]

The San Antonio Spurs tonight. Yikes. And New York gets to use this.

[tenn_smoothie]

I glanced at the game midway 3d quarter and thought the Spurs were back in control of the series.
Just out of curiosity, I checked the final score just now to see how much they won by.
I am in shock. Incredible.

[SparzWizard]

I glanced at the game midway 3d quarter and thought the Spurs were back in control of the series.
Just out of curiosity, I checked the final score just now to see how much they won by.
I am in shock. Incredible.

It was just another brand of Joe Mazzulla basketball but on steroids essentially with the Spurs. Save your time.

Don't get me wrong, Joe Schmoe still needs to go. Games like tonight are why it's unsuccessful when you're chucking 10 straight three balls.

[Who]

Spurs 14-26 from 3 1st half for 53%
Then 3-17 from 3 2nd half

Very Celtics like 

And for 2s

14-21 for 66% 1st half
5-22 for 23% the 2nd half

They made eight baskets total the entire second half? Five twos and three threes

28-47 FGA (60% FG, 67% eFG) in the 1st half
to
8-39 FGA (21% FG, 24% eFG) in the 2nd half.

Ugh ... that is ugly.

[Adelaide Celt]

Disappointing as some of Celtics' playoff failures have been over the years, Spurs in 2013 and 2026 are the biggest NBA Finals chokes I've seen in my lifetime.

[Celtics2021]

And for 2s

14-21 for 66% 1st half
5-22 for 23% the 2nd half

They made eight baskets total the entire second half? Five twos and three threes

9 points on 17 attempts from 3 and 10 points on 22 attempts from 2 means they were actually more efficient from 3 despite shooting under 18%.  Wild.

[Birdman]

Sorry but no team in NBA should blow a 29 point lead..these are professional players

[celticinorlando]

One of the dumbest second halfs of basketball.

[jambr380]

Julian Champagnie was really bad all game. The coach played Barnes zero minutes. A guy that has won a championship and averaged 26mpg during the regular season.

This coach is a moron.

Not as bad as Keldon Johnson who should never see a basketball court again. Yikes. Spurs Nation itching to get rid of KJ and Fox before their dynasty begins

There was a thread here a few weeks back where we were talking about Jaylen trades and a couple of people actually thought that a Fox/Keldon trade made sense for the Cs lol. No, I am not making this up.

I guess they were right, though. Fox and Keldon would fit in perfectly with how we've played and blown leads recently.

I don't really want to see a Spurs dynasty - and this puts that possibility off for another year - but we are never going to hear the end of this Knicks championship. Who else is still talking about winning a single Title over 50 years ago?

[Vermont Green]

Spurs 14-26 from 3 1st half for 53%
Then 3-17 from 3 2nd half

Very Celtics like 

So 17 for 43 for the game, 39.5% overall.  Seems like they shot the 3 pretty well overall.  This is how the element of chance works.  17 3s in a half is not that many these days.  The discrepancy in make % is striking, but I don't see the issue being they took too many 3s in the 2nd half.  Another way to look at it, they missed 12 3s in the first half and 14 in the second.  If they had gone 12-26 in the first and 5-17 in the second, does that change anything?

I think what this continues to show is that the swing or variation in 3P% in the playoffs can be much wider than what is typical in the regular season.  It makes some intuitive sense although I have not done a dive into the stats, just observing this anecdotally.  So does this mean a team should take fewer 3s in the playoffs if that is what got them there?  Take fewer in the second half than the first, expecting that you will miss more due to pressure?  Everyone keeps bashing coaches for this but I am not sure what you really want them to do.