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Rafe Bartholomew

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273 total appearances

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Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

If he's doing that at 40%, then yeah, keep shooting them. Why are you only shooting six, George? And as the games went on, he had a few nights where he attempted 12 and 13 fours. Like he's always in the 30s, which means, again, double it for twos.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

If he's doing that at 40%, then yeah, keep shooting them. Why are you only shooting six, George? And as the games went on, he had a few nights where he attempted 12 and 13 fours. Like he's always in the 30s, which means, again, double it for twos.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

If he's doing that at 40%, then yeah, keep shooting them. Why are you only shooting six, George? And as the games went on, he had a few nights where he attempted 12 and 13 fours. Like he's always in the 30s, which means, again, double it for twos.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

He became proof of concept for what the PVA is hoping the four-point line could do for the league because all of a sudden people are like, hey, have you seen this guy making four-pointers, taking them left and right, has this celebration, he's leading them to wins. And it ended up being a sign of what the four-pointer could do if people embrace it and shoot it well.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

He became proof of concept for what the PVA is hoping the four-point line could do for the league because all of a sudden people are like, hey, have you seen this guy making four-pointers, taking them left and right, has this celebration, he's leading them to wins. And it ended up being a sign of what the four-pointer could do if people embrace it and shoot it well.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

He became proof of concept for what the PVA is hoping the four-point line could do for the league because all of a sudden people are like, hey, have you seen this guy making four-pointers, taking them left and right, has this celebration, he's leading them to wins. And it ended up being a sign of what the four-pointer could do if people embrace it and shoot it well.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

Right. So he led Blackwater to this place where they almost made the playoffs and they wound up losing the second to last game of the season, which eliminated them officially from the postseason. So on one hand, he is he's a professional like these, especially overseas pros. They make business decisions.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

Right. So he led Blackwater to this place where they almost made the playoffs and they wound up losing the second to last game of the season, which eliminated them officially from the postseason. So on one hand, he is he's a professional like these, especially overseas pros. They make business decisions.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

Right. So he led Blackwater to this place where they almost made the playoffs and they wound up losing the second to last game of the season, which eliminated them officially from the postseason. So on one hand, he is he's a professional like these, especially overseas pros. They make business decisions.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

And before his final game in that season, he had this moment where he's thinking, should I bother playing this game? We're not going to make the playoffs either way. It doesn't matter if we win or lose. Should I just save my body? And maybe because of the four-point shot, maybe because of the connection, he felt like he was developing with Philippine basketball and the PBA.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

And before his final game in that season, he had this moment where he's thinking, should I bother playing this game? We're not going to make the playoffs either way. It doesn't matter if we win or lose. Should I just save my body? And maybe because of the four-point shot, maybe because of the connection, he felt like he was developing with Philippine basketball and the PBA.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

And before his final game in that season, he had this moment where he's thinking, should I bother playing this game? We're not going to make the playoffs either way. It doesn't matter if we win or lose. Should I just save my body? And maybe because of the four-point shot, maybe because of the connection, he felt like he was developing with Philippine basketball and the PBA.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

For whatever reason, he's looking in the mirror.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

For whatever reason, he's looking in the mirror.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

For whatever reason, he's looking in the mirror.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

And at the end of the season in which George King managed to brand himself as the PVA's first four-point king, complete with a crown celebration, he made his last shot in a 64-point performance on a falling-away four-pointer going towards the baseline.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

And at the end of the season in which George King managed to brand himself as the PVA's first four-point king, complete with a crown celebration, he made his last shot in a 64-point performance on a falling-away four-pointer going towards the baseline.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

And at the end of the season in which George King managed to brand himself as the PVA's first four-point king, complete with a crown celebration, he made his last shot in a 64-point performance on a falling-away four-pointer going towards the baseline.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

They gave him a pen and a piece of paper and said, write down 64 on it, and then had him pose like Wilt Chamberlain after he scored 100 points in the NBA.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

They gave him a pen and a piece of paper and said, write down 64 on it, and then had him pose like Wilt Chamberlain after he scored 100 points in the NBA.