Not an overreaction it’s correct if you realize the lakers too big for golden state and are winning this series period
I don't care for your jinx, breh.
The Lakers' free throw disparity against Golden State's three point advantage will likely decide the outcome of this series. People gotta stop looking at it like Golden State outscored LA from three by 45 points (21 threes to 6). The real difference is 15 points because both teams made 43 shots.
On the other hand, LA outscored GS by 20 from the line. So the Lakers were +5 between the two comparisons, which was the difference in the final score.
Folks are only putting an emphasis on this because they think the Warriors making 21 threes is some anomaly, and that method of offense is less sustainable than the Lakers' offense, which is ignoring the fact that aside from Steph, Klay and Poole, the rest of the Warriors only shot 3-13 from behind the arc (right in line with what the Lakers were shooting), so it wasn't as if the team had a great shooting night, it was merely their stars who were producing, and we know that Steph and Klay, especially, are more than capable of shooting just as well if not better than that.
If it was GP2, Wiggins, Dray, Donte, Moody hitting an absurd amount of shots from behind the arc, I could see that argument, but they didn't.
And there's another fold to that -
When the game was within a few possessions throughout the first two and half quarters, the Warriors had only made around about 12-13 threes, it was only over the last quarter and a half when they were down by double digits that they started getting hot from behind the arc to make up the deficit, which brought them within tying the game with around a minute remaining.
It wasn't as if they were sinking 3s all throughout the game and the Lakers were still countering. They only started hitting them to get back in the game. Hence that 14-0 run in the 4th and LA not having an answer for them.
Nobody better whine about the refs either. The Lakers shot 25 threes total compared to 53 for the Dubs.
I know y'all keep reiterating this point, but it's not as simple as the Warriors shooting more 3s and that's the reason why they don't get FTs.
Not all the FTs that the Lakers shot were on attempted shots. They were getting in the penalty a lot earlier than Warriors because of their foul merchants, as we've seen all throughout the year. But that's going to be on the Warriors to adjust and not get baited, which Poole was guilty of a lot. Once Dray got into foul trouble that really changed things because nobody was out there controlling the defensive end for GS and they looked lost.
They're going to have to be more disciplined to limit how many times LA gets to the line, particularly during runs when they can't hit 3s.
like you lil jump shooting 3s making nikkas aint fukking ready for this
