There are complexities to basketball that go beyond the statistics, but sometimes, the math is easy.
After blowing out the Knicks on Saturday afternoon, Jaylen Brown simply said, “you gotta beat us four times. Not once. Not twice. Not three. You gotta win four games.”
Zooming into the Game 3 box score, one number stands out. After making just 25-of-100 three-pointers in the first two games at TD Garden, Boston hit half of their forty attempts at MSG with the Knicks hitting just 5-of-25.
But for head coach Joe Mazzulla, that glaring gap from behind the arc wasn’t the difference.