Listen to Colin Cowherd explain why these 2019 NBA Playoffs are showing how much basketball analytics really come up short when it comes to predicting success in the POSTSEASON rather than the regular season.
Colin says the mid-range jumper won Kawhi Leonard and the Raptors the Eastern Conference, and the Western Conference champion Warriors were tenth among playoff teams in three-point shooting. This would obviously be counterproductive according to the basketball analytics that have notoriously tried to phase the mid-range shot out of basketball and favor shooting three’s in record numbers.
Check out the audio below as Colin explains why analytics may get you TO the playoffs, but become irrelevant when it’s a tie game with two minutes to play and you need your star to follow MAN-A-LYTICS and get you a bucket any way he can.
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