Blake Griffin spent years building a respectable mid-range jumper, right around the time analytics decided it was the worst shot in basketball. In this episode of The Stepback, he takes a step back to look at how analytics went from finding overlooked talent in the Moneyball era to an optimization culture where everyone copies the same math. Blake traces it from Billy Beane's Oakland A's and Bill James to Daryl Morey's three-point Houston Rockets and fourth-down math in the NFL. He revisits the Rockets missing 27 straight threes in Game 7 of the 2018 Western Conference Finals, John Smoltz on pitching careers getting shorter, Steve Kerr wondering what would happen without the three-point line, and Dave Roberts trusting his gut in Game 7 of the 2025 World Series. Blake isn't against analytics, but he makes the case that the best moments in sports are the ones that shouldn't happen.