Nearing the Finish...

I'm making slow progress on analyzing the statistics I've found on bleacherreport, nba.com and other sources on the Internet. It is easy to find correlation of team success to three-point shooting, but difficult to prove causation based on how many other factors the game is affected by (superstar talent, defense, coaching etc.)

On another note, Troy Daniels who I mentioned earlier on this blog for his three-point shooting success on the D-league team that shoots more threes than anyone else, had success tonight after being inserted into the Rockets lineup when Chandler Parsons fouled out in OT of Game 3 at Portland in the first round of the playoffs. Jeremy Lin lost the ball on a broken possession, recovered it, and kicked it to Daniels who hit a three with 11 seconds left to put the Rockets up 3. A small, singular moment in time, not much evidence for anything, but good to see someone who dedicates themselves so much to their craft rewarded.

Winding Down

Hey Internet world! I have had minimal progress recently, although it seems to me while watching the NBA season wind down that more and more teams are relying on the three, for better or from worse. Traditional pound it inside teams, such as Memphis, are struggling with no perimeter shooting.

That aside, my next step will be researching through statistics website exactly how much three-point shooting volume and percentage contribute to overall team winning percentage. I will be doing this for the next few weeks and compiling my evidence in preparation for making my presentation for my English class in just over a month. 

My other step will be to use my findings to propose a new strategy for offensive, a target number of threes to shoot per game, and a rough outline of how to achieve that in this new era of three-point shooting, guard-oriented basketball.

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