Three Pointers

[POTUS]

Not to be reductive, but it really comes down to one thing:

Ole Miss: 37.1% vs. our 33.3% - OT Home Win
Auburn: 41.7% vs. our 12.5% - Blowout Road Loss
Kentucky: 50% vs. our 30.0% - Close Home Loss
Vandy: 19% vs. our 37.5% - Comfortable Road Win

We have to dominate the boards and points in the paint (like we did against OM) if we are at a 3PM deficit. A big hill to climb. If Hubbard just shoots 30% from 3 we are 3-1 in this stretch and the OM game isn't close.

Also, I went back and looked. Xavier shot 68% from 3 in 2004. Still hurts.

 

[Perd Hapley]

Not to be reductive, but it really comes down to one thing:

Ole Miss: 37.1% vs. our 33.3% - OT Home Win
Auburn: 41.7% vs. our 12.5% - Blowout Road Loss
Kentucky: 50% vs. our 30.0% - Close Home Loss
Vandy: 19% vs. our 37.5% - Comfortable Road Win

We have to dominate the boards and points in the paint (like we did against OM) if we are at a 3PM deficit. A big hill to climb. If Hubbard just shoots 30% from 3 we are 3-1 in this stretch and the OM game isn't close.

Also, I went back and looked. Xavier shot 68% from 3 in 2004. Still hurts.

Another way of looking at it is that we have to defend the perimeter a lot better. Basketball has changed by leaps and bounds with analytics. Everyone is going to shoot a lot of 3’s, and everyone has 4-5 players on the court that can make you pay from 3-point range if you give them a cushion. Kentucky shot 50% largely because every single look was wide 17ing open. They didn’t just get “hot”. That’s a myth. Great shooters + open looks = lots of made shots. Ole Miss also tied it at the end of regulation yesterday on what was pretty much a clean look with their best shooter just pulling up off the dribble. That can’t happen.

Also, even with all the new additions, we still aren’t a great 3-point shooting team. Only 1 of those 4 games above were we over 33%, and we weren’t over by much. That’s continuing to look like a weakness that will eventually break us in March if it doesn’t get addressed. I don’t know what the deal with Harris is, if he’s still struggling to work into the flow of the offense what, but he keeps having huge stretches where he just disappears and you don’t even know he’s in the game. He needs to be more involved.

 

[FlotownDawg]

Bigger than the Ole Miss 3-pointers was our turnovers. We turned the ball over so much, especially in the first half. We should have blown them out of the water in the first half and been up by at least 20 at halftime instead of eight. And we would’ve if not for all the turnovers. We usually don’t turn the ball over much, but yesterday for whatever reason we had a ton of them.

 

[L4Dawg]

Not to be reductive, but it really comes down to one thing:

Ole Miss: 37.1% vs. our 33.3% - OT Home Win
Auburn: 41.7% vs. our 12.5% - Blowout Road Loss
Kentucky: 50% vs. our 30.0% - Close Home Loss
Vandy: 19% vs. our 37.5% - Comfortable Road Win

We have to dominate the boards and points in the paint (like we did against OM) if we are at a 3PM deficit. A big hill to climb. If Hubbard just shoots 30% from 3 we are 3-1 in this stretch and the OM game isn't close.

Also, I went back and looked. Xavier shot 68% from 3 in 2004. Still hurts.

Didn't you mean to say it felt like three losses?