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June 24, 2019 BIG3 Recap

Brandon King

Sunday’s BIG3 action featured three games. Triplets 50, Aliens 40 The opening contest saw the debut of 7-time NBA All-Star Joe Johnson as captain of the of the Triplets and what a debut he had, scoring 27 points and pulling in 16 rebounds in leading them to a 50-40 victory over Aliens. Killer 3’s 54, Tri State 52 OT Donte Green’s late bucket lifted the Killer 3’s over Tri State in overtime. Tri State, despite having a lead late in regulation, could not put the game away and left the…

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BIG 3 June 22, 2019 Recap

Brandon King

Yesterday the BIG3 tipped off their third season. The first game of Saturday’s action saw 3 Headed Monsters defeat Trilogy, 51-46, behind Reggie Evans’ 22 points and 23 rebounds. The next game between Power and 3’s company was a rematch of last year’s title game. Even without team captain Corey Maggette, Power easily took down 3’s company 50-38, led by 28 point from Cuttino Mobley. The last game on Saturday between Enemies and Bivouac ended early for a player for each time. Bivouac captain Josh Smith and Enemies’ Royce White…

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The coverage of the James Harden scoring “tear” celebrates “Heroball”

Brandon King

It seems that the fervor over the run of these games of such prolific scoring caused the focus to be laid on the numbers solely and not to take into account the circumstances under which they occurred. Call me crazy but efficiency matters. Over the course of these twelve games, Harden has only shot 50% or better 3 times and only better than 45% once. The rest of the games saw Harden connect with 43% or less of his shot attempts, including two clunkers of 7-23 and 12-34 respectively. I realize…

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