Pretty darn important in the game of basketball.
These NCAA teams (and those winning) do both pretty darn well.
These NCAA teams (and those winning) do both pretty darn well.
Outside shooting and making FT's...
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It appears the smarter coaches are basically teach their players to shoot within 5 feet or else shoot 3s.
ORU only shot 35.7% vs Ohio State’s 43.3%. However, shooting 12 more 3s & hitting 6 more of them (along with a higher FT %) was enough to win.
The mid range jumper is the worst shot in college basketball. Assuming you have competent 3 point shooters.
Based on the guys Haith has encouraged to take mid range jumpers the last seven years I’m not sure our staff has heard even this most basic and commonly understood bit of analytics
Didn’t ctt or Aston break this down for us in the last couple of years? It’s like the HS football coach who broke down the numbers and realized that kicking the ball was a losing proposition whether it was a punt, FG/PAT, and even kicking deep in kickoffs so he always went for it in 4th down, always onside kicked when kicking off, and always went for 2 after scoring.
In basketball, the metric showed that a corner 3 was a better shot than a 15 ft jumper. But you’ve got to hit 35% of your 3s to make it that way. Last year our offense was Igbanu inside or shoot from deep and it worked for us. This is why Ritchie not catching and shooting every time he had an open touch was infuriating. The constant catch and pump fake on the shot to dribble into the lane to pass it out to a less efficient shooter is just bad basketball, poor coaching, and poor understanding of stats and efficiency.
Compared to all 2 point shots(layups included) you’d need to shoot somewhere around that percentage for 3’s to be more efficient, but the trade off between mid-range shots and 3’s is a lot clearer. I don’t know what our numbers ended up being but I think even for a poor 3pt shooting team like us a 3 is still better than a mid-range shot.
And Pitino was even ahead of Tubby. That was the style Providence played back in the mid 80’s with guys like Billy Donovan and Delray Brooks. They shot a ton of 3s and it leveled the playing field some for a team line PC who couldn’t bang inside against teams like Georgetown, Syracuse, and Villanova in the old Big East. And by pressing most of the game, they essentially traded layups for 3s. It really changed the game.
