Major Update: June 22, 2015. I have now published a formal article on the arXiv proving many of the assertions made earlier in this blog post. It can be found here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06687
Some controversy was stirred up today when Knicks President and Basketball coaching legend Phil Jackson made the following tweets regarding three-point shooting teams not doing so well in the second round of the playoffs:
“other teams who play a similar style of basketball… ” Need to give numbers on these teams to make your argument convincing.