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How action movies explain Al Horford’s elite shooting

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Three-point shooting is one of the most data-driven aspects of NBA basketball. Whole rosters have been built around the idea that three is objectively a larger number than two, leading once to the 2021 NBA championship for the Milwaukee Bucks and 27 straight missed threes by the Houston Rockets in Game 7 of the 2018 Western Conference Finals.

In my overcomplicated worldview, watching Al Horford—or any NBA player really—shoot threes is much less data than it is watching an action movie, particularly the one I thought was the coolest thing ever when I was eight: Fast Five.