Through the first 36 minutes of their pleasant little Thursday night run at the fancy gym in Arizona, the last two NBA teams-left-standing had compiled a combined 142 “possessions,” 71 apiece.
One squad had 29 successful FG attempts, augmented by 10 other offensive forays that ended with a trip to the foul line – 39 conversions in 71 tries (.549 CV%); the other guys had five more “makes” but only two “FT conversions” – 36-for-71 overall (.507 CV%).
While the more efficient team earned only one subsequent FT conversion, they did tack on 13 more Q4 connects from the field … 53 conversions in 94 possessions (.