Actually, the Cavs are a better 3-point shooting team that the Magic. The Cavs ranked 2nd in the NBA for 3-point shooting percentage and the Magic ranked 6th. Orlando has just been hot the first two games; they can’t keep that up.

Why don’t you try looking at facts when you make these comments.

This is strange phenomenon, and I’m not sure if it started with B Simmons, or if he’s just an example of it. But it seems like the Celtics’ fan reaction to their team being hurt this postseason is too get all whiny and bitter about how terrible their team ended up being, and then lashing out at the Magic, saying that they must be “mediocre” because they almost lost to their sad Boston squad. And now they’re here and there (this guy above is not the first) to say that Cavs must suck too, because they’re in a dogfight with the Magic.

The Magic aren’t mediocre, they are good. The 3 point shot isn’t a gimmick, it’s a part of their game. They are not bad, but were definitely inconsistent this year.

Give it rest, C fans. You’ve got a shiny trophy from last year, and plenty of legit excuses for this one. Quit your whining and trolling and enjoy or go watch your Sawx. It’s not your fault, it’s not your fault, it’s not your fault, it’s not your fault.

how will you be able to speak?

well, you can call it whatever you like, but 16- and 12-point first half leads are pretty convincing. the cavs have owned the first half…you try to parse it in whatever way makes you feel better.

i did a little looking at the celtics shooters shooting percentages. mo, delonte and z are shooters, let’s be real about it, so i thought it would be interesting, in light of your ill-informed statement above, to look at the performance of the celtics shooters. i’ve included ray allen, paul pierce, eddie house and brian scalabrine (yes, brian scalabrine…whos mere presence on the floor for over 20 mpg makes the magic’s 7 game struggle with the c’s questionable). feel free to disagree with this list, but it appears to me that those are the guys who pull from outside on the c’s.

allen — magic series: 34.4% fg, 19% 3’s; reg season: 48% fg, 41% 3’s. pierce — magic series: 43.3% fg, 33.3% 3’s; regular season: 45.7% fg, 39.1% 3’s. house — magic series: 61.9% fg, 60% 3’s; regular season: 44.5% fg, 44.4% 3’s. scalabrine — 42.4% fg, 42.1% 3s; regular season: 42.1% fg, 39.3% 3’s. total numbers for all 4 — magic series: 43% fg, 32.9% 3’s; regular season: 45.1% regular season, 40.9% 3’s. over 7 games, which clearly is a larger sample size than the current series, and thus more representative of what we can expect as this series goes longer, the 4 c’s shooters made fg’s at 95.4% of their regular season numbers, while they knocked down 3’s at 80.6% of the regular season stats. so far in the ECF, the 3 cavs shooters mentioned above are operating at 79.3% of their regular season fg numbers, and 64.5% of 3-point figures. all of this is a very long way of saying, we should expect a meaningful improvement from the cavs’ shooters, even in the event of less success from LeBron, that would make up for an awful lot of the shortcomings we’ve seen so far from the cavs in the second halves.

as well, you present a straw man argument w/ LeBron’s 28ppg from the regular season. that is completely and utterly beside the point. the point i’m making is specific to shooting . LeBron will take more shots in the playoffs than he did in the reg season, so the applicable stat for which he may “come crashing back to earth” is fg, not ppg. you can’t expect his point production to retrace by 14 points merely b/c that’s what his reg season average was. try to do a little critical thinking yourself.

finally, your continued misunderstanding of the points that have been made here regarding the relevance of the regular season can only charitably be called willful ignorance. 3 games of data from an 82-game season (your closely held 2-1 magic record over the cavs in the reg season) is literally borderline statistically insignificant. on the other hand, 82 games worth of data (as in, regular season shooting %) is highly relevant, as it gives us a robust sampling of what we should expect from players over longer stretches of basketball. hope this helps you keep up.

Again, you’re missing the point — 3 games out of 82 in the regular season don’t matter. But shooting percentages over all 82 games do matter — that’s a better indicator of their true ability.

If you’re going to keep posting stuff like this on here please go learn some basic statistics. Sample sizes matter. Something happening over 82 games is a much more meaningful that something that happens over 2 or 3 games. If you can’t realize that then please stop wasting our time.