Last night was the first game of the NBA finals and unless you’re a Celtics fan… there wasn’t too much to get excited about.
So we’re going to dig into the box score and see if we missed something!
If you didn’t watch the game, here’s the basic summary:
The Celtics won by a lot
They were scorching hot in the first quarter
The Mavs made a run in the third quarter
The Celtics answered
The starters were pulled with like 4-5 minutes to go in the 4th
Even Brian Windhorst said on his recap pod with Zach Lowe that he zoned out for awhile in the second quarter… and he was there… AND getting paid
So let’s see what we zoned out for…
Welcome into Who Won?! I’m Zac - ex sports radio producer turned busy dad and if your life is like mine, you don’t get to park yourself on the couch and lock into every game every night.
Last night for instance, I mostly watched on my phone on mute as I tended to dad and husband duties. But a few things that have jumped out before I started recording this:
7 Boston players hit 2 or more 3s?? I don’t know what the record is, maybe we can find it, but that has to be up there right?
Regular season rotations usually don’t go past 9-10
And in the playoffs they’re like 7-8
So that’s almost everyone who actually plays hitting multiple 3s… that seems significant
A buddy of mine sent me a text during the game with a stat from Tom Haberstroh that the Celtics hit 7 3s in the first quarter which is more than the Chicago Bulls did in the entire 1991 finals series (5)
That’s kinda crazy… also a clear illustration of how the game has changed over the past 25 years…
Yes… it’s been almost 25 years since the 91 finals…. I think I just felt another gray hair come in..
Aside from that we’re going to do some digging… My goal with this channel is for some of these videos to be full on reaction videos to games I either couldn’t fully lock into, or missed entirely. I know I’m not the only sports fan in the world with other responsibilities so I’m hoping this is a fun way to dig into the numbers from the box scores, recaps, look up some stats and just see what we missed!
