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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 4170823, member: 1131"] I think Geno believes (as I do) that players like Evina and Caroline have to keep taking shots until they start making them. UConn isn't going to be successful against good teams if nobody is making 3's, and they certainly not going to be making a lot of them if they stop shooting as soon as they miss the first two or three such shots that they attempt. I refer again to KLS as a freshman shooting 27% from 3 for the first 8 or 9 games of her career, and going on to become a great 3-point shooter, even later in her freshman year. Recently, we've seen Anna Makurat going 0 for America until she starting hitting them, and Nika doing similarly until she hit 3-for-7 last night. Caroline's 3-point shooting problems have only existed for the last two games, far too small a sample size to support the conclusions you are drawing. Evina has a multi-year track record of being a 30-35% 3-point shooter, so she will eventually come around. Kia Nurse was always famously streaky from 3-point land, but her hot phases are good enough to make coaches tolerate her cold spells. They went 6-for-30 against Seton Hall because: (a) they were winning and could afford to spend time getting shooters untracked; and (b) there was a reasonable expectation that the next shot(s) would go in. Geno said in his postgame comments that he had no issue with Evina's 3-point attempts because they were good shot attempts, despite the fact that they didn't go in. [/QUOTE]

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