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Jones & Keefe: Do the Celtics need to take more threes? Justin Turpin joins the show
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1/15/2025
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We're light on numbers, typically.
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That is not our specialty.
00:03
No.
00:03
So give us some numbers.
00:05
Speaking of numbers, phone number
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if you have Celtics questions for Terp, 617-779-7937.
00:10
A guaranteed time to talk Celtics every week here
00:12
on Jones and Keefe, High Noon with Terp.
00:14
Give us the numbers.
00:15
All right.
00:15
So they started out 19 and 4.
00:17
Over that stretch, they attempted 51 three-pointers.
00:20
That was first.
00:21
And they made 19 at a 37.3% clip.
00:24
Opponents attempted 35.3.
00:26
That was the fourth fewest.
00:28
So there's a big disparity there.
00:29
They made 12 and 1 half, and they shot at 35.4.
00:33
So that's 6 and 1 half threes per game.
00:35
And so real quick, sorry, I was going to do the math,
00:37
which I should have not done.
00:38
6 and 1 half threes, that clocks out to 18 to 19 points
00:48
per game on the perimeter.
00:49
That's a big difference.
00:50
Since the Grizzlies game, which I'm kind of using
00:52
as a line of demarcation, they're 9 and 7.
00:55
They're attempting 47 threes, so four fewer.
00:58
Still first, but a little bit less, making 16.3
01:01
and knocking down at a 34.6% clip.
01:04
Opponents are making 14, shooting 36.7,
01:08
and they're doing it on fewer attempts at 38.2.
01:11
So what was an 18 to 19 point advantage on the perimeter
01:15
is now down to just 6.
01:16
OK, and one more time, the cutoff
01:18
is they were 19 and 4 to start the year,
01:20
and they're what since?
01:21
9 and 7.
01:23
Back and forth.
01:23
So that's since the Grizzlies game,
01:25
and that's the one they shot like 60 threes,
01:27
and they were leaving Drew Holiday open.
01:28
They couldn't make any.
01:29
OK, so hang on.
01:30
So your thesis.
01:32
Good numbers.
01:32
Good job, Terp.
01:33
Your thesis is, yeah, we'll see you next week, Terp.
01:36
Back down the hall, as Marshan would say, back in the closet.
01:39
So OK, your thesis, if I'm reading it properly,
01:43
is they need to shoot more threes.
01:45
They were shooting more threes, attempting more threes.
01:46
They were 19 and 4.
01:47
They've dropped off.
01:48
They've shot less, and now they're 500-ish, 9 and 7,
01:51
over this more recent stretch.
01:53
Is that fair to say that's your thesis?
01:54
They're not shooting enough threes.
01:55
I do think they need to shoot more threes,
01:57
and people probably hate that.
01:58
Yeah, they're like, what?
01:59
The offense has gotten worse when they've shot less threes,
02:01
and there's more percentage that you can get into.
02:03
But also, doesn't it sound like they need to defend
02:05
their opponent's three better?
02:06
They do.
02:06
That's sort of the key to me.
02:07
Like, that's what jumped out is, like, you
02:09
were hitting a decent percentage.
02:10
The percentage has gone down.
02:11
You've taken fewer, so that's going to limit it.
02:13
But it seems like the opponent, over the last 16 games,
02:16
has been much more efficient shooting threes.
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