Originally Posted by
gofurman
what I find most interesting - per the change to three point line is the similarity in 3 pont shooting in 01 / 05 and the 5% points less this year. This definitely hurts us and I fear will be a hurt for years to come. There is no doubt that moving the line back knocks the % a little and we are one of the most three dependent teams.
Nationwide, the move of the line has dropped shooting ~ 1.3%. Our shooting 5% less is only somewhat attributable to the three point line. It's also attributable to 1) we have fewer pure shooters than in years past, and 2) some guys, like Paulus, are just having off years. The year hasn't finished, and it may well be that we simply got our misses out of the way earlier - our three point percentage for the season as a whole isn't final yet.
Also, can we please all get off of this "we are one of the most three dependent teams" theme? We shoot fewer threes (as a percentage of our attempts) than 150 teams in the country. We get less of our scoring from three (as a percentage of our total points) than 219 teams in the country. We just scored 101 points in a game where we made 8 threes. This is not a team that simply chucks it up from the perimeter and has no hope of scoring otherwise.
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