I just wonder how so called professionals earning many tens of thousands dollars per game can shoot like machine guns for 1st and 2nd quarter and then suddenly so often all of them ain't able even hit the barn door in the 3rd. It happens so many times, there must be some common reason. Do they drink something at half-time?

Fresh example, Lakers at Raptors, managing dropping the line from 221.5 to 198.5, both teams scoring almost twice as less then in the least successful quarter.