{"id":142291,"date":"2024-12-19T00:56:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T05:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/?p=142291"},"modified":"2024-12-19T00:58:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T05:58:50","slug":"joe-mazzulla-defends-threes-after-adam-silver-mulls-nba-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/joe-mazzulla-defends-threes-after-adam-silver-mulls-nba-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Mazzulla Defends Threes After Adam Silver Mulls NBA Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BOSTON \u2014 Joe Mazzulla<\/strong> didn\u2019t need to defend his team\u2019s part in the three-pointer\u2019s rise around the league. It preceded his teams and weaponizing it made the Celtics a monster. They win almost every game now, in part due to their ability to generate as many quality threes as possible. Celtics fans can\u2019t complain. All Mazzulla needed to do was point up at the banner.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is why it feels like the Celtics win every game. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S7IUIk9G15\">https:\/\/t.co\/S7IUIk9G15<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bobby Manning (@RealBobManning) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealBobManning\/status\/1868722042046202063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a rare moment where he reflected on his personal thoughts about the state of the game, Mazzulla said he prefers not to watch NBA basketball. He\u2019ll catch some of his favorite college teams like Connecticut, West Virginia, Auburn and others. Overseas cricket and soccer intrigue him, while he sees enough of the NBA at his job and in preparation for opposing teams. The Celtics watch basketball every day, but he\u2019s not putting his feet up in his free time and watching TNT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m part of the problem,\u201d Mazzulla quipped, but he doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s the threes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think in the NFL, people aren\u2019t like, \u2018I want to see less scoring,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re not gonna make the end zone smaller. They\u2019re not gonna make the field smaller. So scoring is up in other sports. I guess my question would be, \u2018why, in basketball, is scoring up being an issue as opposed to other sports? Does anybody want to watch a football game and see less touchdowns?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Football favored offense with rule adjustments before basketball, and while both benefited from it stylistically, complaints over threes in basketball compare more to football coaches deciding to go for two-pointers over extra points. The numbers say to do it, and the benefits play out over a long period of time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"TRENDING: Adam Silver Expresses Concern with Amount of 3-Pointers in NBA\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zgXz-4_ckAY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, NBA commissioner <strong>Adam Silver<\/strong> admitted that a league-wide increase in three-point shooting has led to more uniform playing style across the league in recent years. You can find the rare outliers like <strong>Nikola Joki\u0107<\/strong> and <strong>Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/strong>, while some mid-range masters like<strong> DeMar DeRozan<\/strong> exist in decreasing numbers. In Boston, <strong>Jaylen Brown<\/strong> and <strong>Kristaps Porzi\u0146\u0123is<\/strong> provide a pleasant change of pace for a Celtics team that mostly utilizes its players behind the line. Mazzulla has said many times that they don\u2019t direct players to shoot threes. They hunt the best shot possible, but even after not expecting to carry over their 50 threes per game from the preseason, the team has averaged 51.1 attempts through 26 regular season games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just the progression of the game, the evolution of the game, I believe,\u201d <strong>Al Horford<\/strong> said. \u201cMy rookie year, I would\u2019ve never imagined, I would\u2019ve never imagined 10 years ago, seeing that many three-point shots being shot &#8230; at every position, as soon as you come in the league, guys are shooting them and they\u2019re comfortable with them. Whereas before, guys had to develop it here. They had to figure it out. They didn\u2019t shoot them as much or they weren\u2019t as comfortable. But there is a lot of value in team\u2019s eyes with the three-point shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"How the NBA Can FIX Its Ratings Issue\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aNOqR9ZHuEo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mazzulla points to the Celtics\u2019 personnel as the reason their system works, and despite an expectation that the league would follow their lead after their championship, two more threes per game league-wide has led to lower scoring. The league\u2019s three-point efficiency fell to 35.9% from 36.6% while its offensive rating dipped from 115.3 to 113.2 points per 100 possessions, according to Basketball Reference\u2019s calculations.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls, who Boston faces in a home-and-home this weekend, jacked their attempts from behind the line up from 32.1 per game to 43.7, second in the league. They\u2019re scoring six more points per game, but unlike Boston, have struggled to stop opponents from getting three-pointers up. The Celtics, once obsessed with limiting attempts, have shifted back-and-forth between prioritizing rim defense and stopping outside shots \u2014 the same dilemma they\u2019ve forced other teams to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not gonna stop people from playing their game,\u201d Mazzulla said. \u201cBut you gotta (know) what you\u2019re willing to give up there &#8230; against teams in general, it\u2019s just a matter of what can we take away, what can we control, what\u2019re we willing to live with? &#8230; teams are playing different. I think transition pace is up. I think turnovers are up. I think driving the ball is just as much up as the threes are. So, I think each team is doing a great job of playing to the strengths of their roster. That\u2019s the challenge going into every game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t sound like a cookie-cutter league. Mid-range shots and post-up plays were deemed too inefficient and diminished, but style of play issues existed before even they were popularized. Interest in the NBA has waned for other reasons: a face of the league crisis, injuries or absences, and a long regular season to name a few. There\u2019s a case, as Silver said, that fans consume the game in clips. Admittedly, that\u2019s how Mazzulla does it.<\/p>\n<p>It does say something, though, that the 2.5-hour product isn\u2019t worth sitting down and watching for this generation of consumers. While the league shouldn\u2019t bend its product to <em>Tik Tok<\/em>, it can\u2019t be complacent or ignore real issues fans have with it, whether lagging end of games or a record 75 three-point misses in a recent game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jayson Tatum<\/strong> is amazing, just won Boston a championship and the style he plays puts the Celtics in the best position to win. His efficiency numbers are down this year and he never got the chance to fully develop the mid-range game he might\u2019ve master in another era and some fans still beg for him to power to the basket more regularly.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, in this era, his job has become taking the tough shots so others get easy ones. When Horford first started taking threes, it struck him how hard the shot was. NBA players make it look so easy that we forget 40% of threes falling is great. That means, with a greater percentage of shots coming there, fewer overall will fall in an average game. A rival earlier this season observed Boston living with some bad shots to play the sheer percentages the three offers.<\/p>\n<p>And when asked earlier this year whether he enjoys the three, Tatum paused, and pivoted to its effectiveness:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I first came in, there still was some traditional bigs. We started [Aron] Baynes and Al together sometimes, and even that year, Baynes was shooting a lot of threes,\u201d Tatum said. \u201cI don\u2019t go into the game like, \u2018I\u2019m shooting 14 threes tonight.\u2019 Some of them are heat checks, some of them are late shot clock, some of them, I\u2019m feeling good. Obviously, there are the open ones. It\u2019s just the way that we play. We attack guys, we find the advantage, we attack it. You gotta help. If you don\u2019t, we\u2019re gonna make the layup. If you do, we pass it out to the wing &#8230; and everybody on the perimeter can shoot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON \u2014 Joe Mazzulla didn\u2019t need to defend his team\u2019s part in the three-pointer\u2019s rise around the league. It preceded his teams and weaponizing it made the Celtics a monster. They win almost every game now, in part due to their ability to generate as many quality threes as possible. Celtics fans can\u2019t complain. 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