Bean did shoot over 40% from 3's actually. Yes, our offense wasn't pretty, but Bean obviously felt like he had to shoulder most of the load on offense and he was partially right since the other four primary back court players on the team shot 28%, 29%, 36%, and 32% on 3's respectively.
We also didn't have a big man who was as efficient as Jon Smith who shot 63% from the field last year.
Actually, no he didn't. 87 for 222 is 39.2% . Yahoo doesn't have all our games. But that's neither here nor there. 39%, 40% either are pretty good. But the reason he shouldered the load is because he made himself do it. His shouldering of the load is a big reason we sucked this year. Jon Smith was effective because he was passed the ball to spots where he was effective. He wouldn't have been nearly as effective this year. He wasn't the type of player to force things so he might have been effective just on a much smaller scale. And a I seriously wonder what you guys who are fine with Bean are looking for when you watch a game. The ball is almost never in his hands for less than a second and a second is all it takes for the defense to get back into position. It's also the second that Tony or Mo flashed open low but the ball isn't on the wing yet where the passing lane is to get it to them. He's also terrible at the drive and dish which is where almost all wide open threes come from. It happened time and time again against us. When Bean drives its "I'm going to shoot, I'm going to shoot, I'm going to shoot, ah, crap where'd that big guy come from, time for a desperation pass, wonder where my guys are?"
The guy just has no court vision and no anticipation (i.e. BBIQ). He's our on-ball defender and he had 25 steals this year. 25! Do you realize how ungodly low that is? And that just missed being his career high (26). He had 79 steals for his career. D.J. Cooper had three seasons with more than that. He had fewer than 50 fouls called on him in his two seasons at Ohio. So what you say? It means that he was uber passive on defense but you have to have noticed that watching guard after guard after guard blow right by him to get our bigs in foul trouble (until they decided midway through the year that they weren't going to sit on Bean's account). And worse than his ability to guard the ball was his awareness to pick up the man that whatever poor sap that had to clean up his mess had left unguarded. Defensive switching doesn't help Bean score so it's of no interest to him.
But all of this is just my observations and opinion (except for the 39.2% part). I've said this since last year but he wouldn't play for me. Give me 12 Treg Setty's, who doesn't have a quarter of the physical talent but has ten times the heart and eyes.