Rerisen wrote:Threes are generally efficient offense - IF - you can get looks. But you can't just force them up.
And this post has a bit of a Daryl Morey-ish vibe to it, in almost elevating the three to a messianic like level.
There are a lot of downsides to chucking too many regardless efficiency. Your bigs, like Noah and Gasol, are going to stop running up and down the floor as hard, setting picks, and such if they never touch the ball and its just perimeter guys jacking threes.
Your ball movement and teamwork might also suffer.
Exactly. Looking at game theory, sure, 3s and layup AND1s all day. But game theory necessitates the agent (or basketball player in this case) to be a completely rational creature (in essence, a robot), you're spot on. It'll hurt the teamwork doing things like this.
