Originally Posted by
kobstopa
Can these two teams really shot under 40% for a third game in a row or do they revert to their averages.
I really cant put an exact answer to that, but would be very surprised to see more than 43 % on average, the defense had been air tight on both sides, difficult to see the basket, combination of a lot of hits and miss, a block shot here and there. One of significant adjustment with the Pacers is their style of defense is similar to the Bulls; they do learn something from this series.
Lakers/hornets, i look at it from a plain stat of scoring cycle, it's on an alternate hi-lo, plus
again, it's really a number of factors: there's a few finishers between these teams can really shoot against difficult spacing & can really score against a good defense locked on them,
Kob creates his own shots
Pau can hit that low post/so bynum
CP3 can take it in many form off the pick & in the lane, he can take his own shots when they space out for his assist targets.
....i can go forever here, but thing seem fall into places... it could go similar to the spur/mem game today,.
but overall I think the Lakers will force the action, as they want to build the lead into late period and down want to play from behind, the hornets will too go with this pace. It will be a lot of energy at LA, the hornets themselves
will come out with focus on every
play.