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Message: [QUOTE="BBallF, post: 5172548, member: 10435"] Q, Ice, Allie, KK and Chen are a combined 18 for 78 from the arc. That's 23%. Take them out of the team stats and you are at 135 for 355 or 38%. Historically, going back 8 years in the archives on the web site shows 39.6% for 2016-2017 and 40.5% for 2017-2018. Otherwise, it hovers around 36%. I think the dividing line is who is shooting the shots. If we take our current twenty four 3s a game, and shoot at our current team 35% rate you are making 8.4 for 25 points. If you shoot 38% you are making 9.12 for 27 points a game. If you get to 40% you are making 9.6 for 29 points a game. Seems slight but we could have used an extra 2-4 points in the USC game. The best 3 point shooters should be shooting the most 3 point shots. That's axiomatic. It's Ash. Azzi, Paige and Sarah in that order for an average of 38.5% with Sarah being the lowest percentage. Ash, Paige and Azzi are shooting 40.4% together and as was pointed out, Azzi is just getting her stroke back. I am leaving Morgan out of the equation, although she should be shooting not deferring way more, due to her role when she comes in and playing minutes. Also, although there is no way to deduce this from the basic stats, my strong bet is that the percentage of made 3s with the top four 3 point shooters goes up as the game goes on. You "get your eye" the more you shoot. So the simple answer to the lower percentage is that it's who's shooting. [/QUOTE]