How critical is 3 point shooting?

[Brad Palmer]

These have been our 3-pt. shooting totals in 5 of the past 10 games:
Florida 4-15
Butler 5-24
Marquette 5-24
Seton Hall 3-17
Georgetown 5-26

Obviously cause for concern, but how big? Very few of our 3 point attempts seem to be "bad shots", which makes it even more concerning.

Loving this 18-1 ride so far, but certainly looking for areas to improve on. Thoughts BY?

 

[caw]

That's more an issue of consistency than anything for 3 point shooting.

The other five were:
DePaul - 6/15
PC - 18/32
X - 13/28
DePaul - 6/18
Texas - 6/16

Need to be consistently above 33%. UF wasn't bad but the other four were definitely bad shooting games. The plus side UConn has pretty stable inside scoring at the five and with Silas. That plus the defense will win a lot of games by itself.

However, against some of the best teams (FF level teams) shooting will be needed.

Right now I'd worry more about TO's and FT shooting though.

 

[willie99]

If we're going to take a lot of 3 point shots, it's important

With our motion offense often times creating an open 3, it's important

I think we'll be fine.

I hope the home crowd and the competition helps to correct this on Saturday