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Atlanta shooting 38.5% from 3 and making 15 of them doesn't tell the whole story about NY's defense. The defense was excellent because it turned Atlanta into 3-point chuckers. NY gave up 15 threes, but on a chucking 39 attempts (12.4 more than Atlanta usually attempts) and pretty much nothing else other than 2nd chance points and free throws (which was more the refs than NY — all those techs from 3 sec and delay of game violations inflated their free throws, otherwise teams don't shoot free throws against them like that anymore — 21 opp fta's in their last 16 games including last night). No points in the paint, no fast break points, nothing. And 3's will stop falling late because you won't have the legs to keep making them, especially if you attempt as many as the Hawks did last night. Atlanta on shot 28.6 on 3's in the 4th and missed their last 2, and those 2 ended up being crucial misses that could've given them a chance to win.
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