We shot 26 and and made 10. We passed up some open threes to drive into the teeth of the defense.
Just sayin.
I disagree, I thought we shot too many threes. Its been a bad habit the whole season.
We need to generate more free throws and we are not going to get to the line by shooting 3s. Each one of our opponents this season, with the exception of Maine, has gotten to the line more times than us. With how talented and athletic we are thats inexcusable, especially in this "freedom of movement" era. We can't allow this to be the norm especially when we face better opponents.
Since the Maine game 29 out of 36 (81%) of Gibbs field goal attempts in those 4 games have come from beyond the arc, he is relying too much on his outside shooting. He is a good 3 point shooter but he is an excellent free throw shooter (93%) who has only missed 1 free throw in 5 games, the problem is that he has only gotten to the line 14 times in 5 games. With his speed and handle in the freedom of movement era thats way to low. The benefit of attacking the lane is that even if he can't get to the rim he can draw fouls or he can dish it to an open man when the defense collapses.
I liked the fact that Purvis was more aggressive in the second half by driving to the rim, its the right idea and I am sure thats what Ollie told him to do during halftime, unfortunately he just missed too many layups. I have faith in Purvis that as the season progresses more of those drives will end up with made baskets, but he absolutely must improve his free throw shooting because he will get fouled on many of those drives. He is shooting about 25% at the charity stripe so far!
Its great that as a team the three ball is a legitimate option for us, but we are too talented of a team to be a "live or die on the 3" kind of team. The 3 pointer is an equalizer in college basketball but UCONN will be the more talented team against almost all of our opponents this year and we should have no interest in equalizing.