Green With Envy: wide open 3s are great shots

Photo by Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty ImagesRewatching the Boston Celtics 3-point shooting barrage against the Atlanta Hawks left one last impression in my mind: the Celtics were wide open all night. Here are screenshots of all of their 20 makes.

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— Maneikis (CelticsBlog/GWE) (@miniminoe) March 12, 2023 As frustrating as it has been at times due to the inherent variance of the three pointer, Mazzulla ball works when everyone buys in to making the extra pass and the right players are taking open shots.

Aside from a Jaylen Brown stepback and a couple of Jayson Tatum “contested” 3 pointers over Clint Capela (who had no shot of making JT think twice…