Take THIS, you sweaty analytics nerds, sweaty because of how hot you get when you think about numbers and spreadsheets and calculators. Spencer Dinwiddie doesn’t need your advanced degrees (in being a nerd LMAO) or your snide tweets about what shots are good shots to take. He’s a baller. A pure baller, who knows that the best shot in a situation is the shot you can take. He hears nerds telling him not to shoot midrange shots, so what does he do? Takes a midrange shot to win the game. Cry all you want nerds, hug your life-size anime pillows, nothing will change the fact that you have become, suddenly, even more thoroughly irrelevant. Now and forever.
For real though, aside from his game-winner, Dinwiddie’s shot profile was nothing but threes and layups. On the season, he barely takes any shots from the range where he hit the final shot. Analytics nerds, due to this fact, probably considered him an ally. Fools! Basketball players and analytics nerds can never be allies. They are like oil and water, literally unable to mix.
You know who else is crying right now, besides analytics nerds? Kyrie Irving AKA Cryrie Virgin. He was supposed to be the one hitting game winners for Brooklyn, but he was too busy avoiding have to face Cleveland fans to do so tonight. He was supposed to be the one who would be the offensive engine for the Nets, the one who all the fans loved, but his grasp on those things is loosening due to the charming nature and clutch play of Dinwiddie.