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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 16
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    Basketball fans: why has 3-point shooting taken over? I’m guessing it’s not that the skill levels went up but that something made it a more valuable skill to cultivate? What?https://twitter.com/owenlhjphillips/status/1317111245741359106 …

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    llewellyn jean @owenlhjphillips
    how it started how it's going @dmorey edition pic.twitter.com/h4mxWFOUlR
    7:39 PM - 16 Oct 2020
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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 16
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        This is so going into my files as “getting inside the opponents OODA loop” examples file

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 16
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        It’s kinda lovely. Clean examples of shift in real-life dominant strategies are rare.

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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 16
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        So presumably now that everybody is doing it, there’s no real advantage but the game is different 🤔

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      2. Mahdi‏ @mahdiofalltime Oct 16
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        Daryl Morey spearheaded the analytics movement, then warriors created dynasty behind the three point line and every one copied.

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      3. Pukar C. Hamal  🏔 🗽 🌉 🇺🇸‏ @pchamal Oct 16
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        The total expected value of a 33% 3-pointer shooting percentage is the same as a 50% 2-pointer. But three-pointers also put way more pressure on the defense by stretching the court which actually increases your ability to make 2-pointers. Crazy we didn't shift earlier.

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      2. Benedict Fritz‏ @benedictfritz Oct 16
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        I always assumed it was someone finally crunching the numbers that the higher miss % of the 3-pointer still netted (hehe) more points in the end

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      3. brennan‏ @letkma Oct 16
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        yeah, wasn't this a thing a few years back when some (team? guy?) started really hammering them - a thing that no one else was doing - and basically broke basketball because it was so effective? and then everyone else caught on to the strat

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      2. Poll Deputy #531‏ @mozzzzerella Oct 16
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        Higher efficiency. “100 mid-range jumpers will provide 79 points on average, while 100 above-the-break 3s would provide 105”

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      3. James Slezak‏ @jslez Oct 16
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        So interesting!

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      1. David A. Keldsen (Dak)‏ @d_a_keldsen Oct 16
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        Social distancing.

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