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00:00I've been waiting because Terp is a Porzingis guy.
00:03Sure am.
00:03And so they need him to win.
00:06Terp has been needling me sometimes when Porzingis comes in after these big games.
00:10Is that a game where it proves how valuable he is
00:14and how much they need him to win a title?
00:15So this is a number that I crunched this morning, which is absolutely wild.
00:18The guy's 7'3", and the average distance of his made threes last night
00:23was 27.75 feet.
00:26But just for reference, the deepest part of the three-point line in the NBA
00:30is 23 feet and 9 inches.
00:32And this guy's just banging them from all over.
00:34Has he been asked about that?
00:36He was last night.
00:37I was going to say, I heard Mago talking about this today,
00:39and I didn't realize this because if you remember, Keith,
00:40early on in the year, I was very critical.
00:42I'm like, take a step up.
00:43Yeah, get a little bit closer.
00:44Why are you shooting from that far away?
00:46He always does.
00:47His answer, if I'm paraphrasing, if I heard Mago right,
00:49he's basically like, my efficiency doesn't drop at all
00:52when I shoot from back there versus at the line,
00:53so I might as well give us more spacing, right?
00:55Yeah, before he got to Boston, right after Washington,
00:58he looked at it.
00:59They experimented with his trainer,
01:02and the efficiency really didn't drop off.
01:03And he just said he's more comfortable shooting from further out,
01:06which if you're the Celtics, you take that.
01:08Already an elite floor-spacing team.
01:10And then you got your 7'3 center standing 30 feet away from the rim.
01:14It's dangerous.
01:15And you don't have to worry about your tootsies.
01:16Your tootsies can be on the line.
01:18You hit that shot to two.
01:19He doesn't fit in the corner.
01:20He hit one last night, but last year he was always on the line
01:23taking these corner threes.
01:24He seems to figure out how to fit over there a little bit more,
01:27but, I mean, that's a weapon for them.
01:29And he's also shooting a team best and career high 41.6% from three.
01:34Like, that guy is shooting a team, the full three-point shooter.
01:38Granted, his volume's a little bit less,
01:40or, I mean, a couple hundred in some of the cases
01:43with, like, Tatum and those guys,
01:44but he's still taking over 200 shots from three,
01:46and he's shooting 41.6%.
01:48Like, that's terrifying.
01:50He's in the top 10 points per possession in the post,
01:53and then he's shooting the lights out from three.
01:55So he's all the part of the unicorn, and we saw that last night.
01:58You're no franch物 strap.
02:01You don't have to wear it.
02:02You don't have to wear it.
02:03You don't have to wear it.
02:04So like, buddy,
02:04the third one night,
02:07you're not fighting.