It seemed like Saul let his guys shoot outside waaaay too much.
I think sometimes people don't realize what the landscape of college basketball truly is.
We were 278th in the country in 3pters taken as a % of total FGA last year. The year prior we were 238th. If anything I would say we didn't have enough 3pt shooting the last two years. Of course that was a result of Dartis and Gollon being injured.
Boals had Stony Brook on the other side of things being in the top 100 nationally for 3pters taken in 2017 and 2018, although they dropped to 224th last year so it truly may depend on our personnel.
Dartis being healthy alone should get us back at least in the top half of the country. I believe Roderick is a pretty good outside shooter as well. I guess we will find out about the other guys in a couple months.
Agree on the whole premise of this post. Based on the composition of this year's roster, I would expect to see MORE 3's rather than fewer, and I wouldn't expect that to trend anywhere but up. How those 3's are achieved, however, will be interesting, and does make a difference in my opinion.
I'm assuming that the following players are going to lead the way in minutes:
Dartis, Ogbonda, BVP, Preston, McDay, Price, Roderick. Five of them are guards/wings. I'd expect attempted three's to be more common.
I'm hoping upon all hopes that the tempo - i.e. pace of the ball being moved up the floor in transition to attempt to create more easy baskets - is noticeably quicker at some point than we saw the prior two years.
Last Edited: 9/18/2019 12:16:07 PM by OU_Country