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00:00We're light on numbers, typically.
00:01That is not our specialty.
00:03No.
00:03So give us some numbers.
00:05Speaking of numbers, phone number
00:06if you have Celtics questions for Terp, 617-779-7937.
00:10A guaranteed time to talk Celtics every week here
00:12on Jones and Keefe, High Noon with Terp.
00:14Give us the numbers.
00:15All right.
00:15So they started out 19 and 4.
00:17Over that stretch, they attempted 51 three-pointers.
00:20That was first.
00:21And they made 19 at a 37.3% clip.
00:24Opponents attempted 35.3.
00:26That was the fourth fewest.
00:28So there's a big disparity there.
00:29They made 12 and 1 half, and they shot at 35.4.
00:33So that's 6 and 1 half threes per game.
00:35And so real quick, sorry, I was going to do the math,
00:37which I should have not done.
00:386 and 1 half threes, that clocks out to 18 to 19 points
00:48per game on the perimeter.
00:49That's a big difference.
00:50Since the Grizzlies game, which I'm kind of using
00:52as a line of demarcation, they're 9 and 7.
00:55They're attempting 47 threes, so four fewer.
00:58Still first, but a little bit less, making 16.3
01:01and knocking down at a 34.6% clip.
01:04Opponents are making 14, shooting 36.7,
01:08and they're doing it on fewer attempts at 38.2.
01:11So what was an 18 to 19 point advantage on the perimeter
01:15is now down to just 6.
01:16OK, and one more time, the cutoff
01:18is they were 19 and 4 to start the year,
01:20and they're what since?
01:219 and 7.
01:23Back and forth.
01:23So that's since the Grizzlies game,
01:25and that's the one they shot like 60 threes,
01:27and they were leaving Drew Holiday open.
01:28They couldn't make any.
01:29OK, so hang on.
01:30So your thesis.
01:32Good numbers.
01:32Good job, Terp.
01:33Your thesis is, yeah, we'll see you next week, Terp.
01:36Back down the hall, as Marshan would say, back in the closet.
01:39So OK, your thesis, if I'm reading it properly,
01:43is they need to shoot more threes.
01:45They were shooting more threes, attempting more threes.
01:46They were 19 and 4.
01:47They've dropped off.
01:48They've shot less, and now they're 500-ish, 9 and 7,
01:51over this more recent stretch.
01:53Is that fair to say that's your thesis?
01:54They're not shooting enough threes.
01:55I do think they need to shoot more threes,
01:57and people probably hate that.
01:58Yeah, they're like, what?
01:59The offense has gotten worse when they've shot less threes,
02:01and there's more percentage that you can get into.
02:03But also, doesn't it sound like they need to defend
02:05their opponent's three better?
02:06They do.
02:06That's sort of the key to me.
02:07Like, that's what jumped out is, like, you
02:09were hitting a decent percentage.
02:10The percentage has gone down.
02:11You've taken fewer, so that's going to limit it.
02:13But it seems like the opponent, over the last 16 games,
02:16has been much more efficient shooting threes.