primecougar wrote:kabstah wrote:primecougar wrote:omg i hate the " long 2s aka the worst shot in basketball. you cant win with only 3s and layups. look at the last 10 championship teams, they all had a dominate midrange player.
You don't know what you're talking about. Dominating with 3's and layups while sucking at mid range is exactly how Miami beat OKC in 2012. Lebron, the guy you think killed the Thunder with his mid range game, was 4-23 between 10 and 23 ft. Wade and Bosh were also hot garbage, shooting a combined 19-59 from the same distance.
KD and Westbrook were way, way, way better at hitting the long 2 (especially Durant), and they lost in 5 because OKC couldn't hit the 3 ball.
Idk what the hell you watched but what I saw was that lbj was unstoppable in midrange post up area. Durant couldn't check him and okc was forced to switch harden/sefo on him.
I hate this logic. How did Miami get all those open 3 pointers?
The same wide open 3s that you got was not because okc didn't notice it. It was cuz if they didn't double lbj/wade in post, it would be an easy 2 everytime. You don't get wide open 3s if lebron or wade wasnt playing in the post.
He used those post ups to get layups for himself and 3's for the team, not long 2's or mid range jumpers. You're really moving the goalposts if you consider Lebron using his 50+ pound weight advantage to back down to the basket from 12' out a "dominate" mid range game. Charles Barkley used to back guys down from the 3 point line before the 5 second rule was enforced, would you say he had a "dominate" 3 point game?