Every loss has mistakes. It's why you lose. Would there be any loss you consider not a bad loss? I doubt it. We could lose to the 96 Bulls and this board would say, "No excuses! Winners find a way to win!". Delusional
Yeah pre injury he was good, still streaky, but good. We're not in that world anymore. And I have no idea what type of shooter Akok is, he has no significant volume. It wouldn't bother me if he started taking some of Polley's attempts. I'm quite sure he could have gone 0-3 vs MSU, 0-4 vs VCU, 0-4 against WVU.
maybe so, but akok ss still missing in action every game and the other two are always an adventure whenever they touch the ball
Sure, but
"If you take away his great games he's average"
Net also has Wyoming 18th. Faulty metric.
I'm convinced you don't understand the difference between Percentage and Total made and therefore probably shouldn't venture into the nuances of gender discussions. 3PT% has nothing to do with longevity leading to production, and everything to do with how many shots you make out of how many you take. Full stop. Why do I have to explain this to an adult?
The 5th all time 3point shooter in UConn history is a bad shooter
He's below average if you take them away. And his great games are 1 in 10. Kind of a problem. You're acting like I'm removing half his games.
You are not being honest. All of his games are not hot or cold. He’s has plenty of 2-5, 3-8 games. You’re acting like people can’t go look up these stats. He’s going to go down as one of the top 5 3 point shooters in UConn history by the numbers and you’re calling him a bad shooter. I don’t know why you want to die on this hill
Auburn is a great team. We were lucky to win that after pissing away a lead . Usually we piss away leads late for a loss. See last night. Or Mich state or creighton BET or St. John’s last year, I can go on.
Tyler Polley is a career 37% 3 point shooter, even if we define his bad games as any time he shot below his career average that's 66/112 games. That's nowhere close to 10% good games
Nova just shot 13-50 against cuse ( 26% ) and still win by 14. Because they don’t beat themselves in other aspects of game.
We weren’t lucky. We deserved to win. We were the better team. Late game management is an issue. There’s no disagreement there. Where I push back is on the notion that every loss is a bad loss. Had we loss clearly by 10 would it have been a better loss? I don’t understand the way of thinking. Disappointing? Yes. But acting as if WV is a “bad” team is unfounded. They’ve shown nothing this year for anyone to believe they’re a bad team. Unproven? Yes. But bad? Show me the proof.
Yes, in the last 2 years Polley's shooting has regressed. But ESPN looks to have his stats wrong for last season. they show he shot 35% from three last season, but if you look at the game log he shot 40% from three.
He's not just taking away great games. He's taking away 3 seasons. Great fan.
It’s offensive you actually put him in the same sentence as Rashad. He has been the same player since day 1 like I said. Thanks for sharing the totals though so I didn’t have to look it up. Pretty telling that Rashad basically doubled his attempts in one less season lol.
If we hit 26% we also win by close to double digits.
That page shows an average of percentages, which isn't accurate, because it doesn't factor in that each game had different numbers of shots. For the specific total averages it's rounding (1.7/4.8 not 2/5).. You have to divide the raw totals, which is why 35% is correct.
There is a necessary transition coming from AAU to college and hopefully the college coach teaches and implements an offensive system as well as a defensive one. We don't seem to have much in the way of an offensive system. I appreciate the emphasis on defense but as you point out, we don't seem to have that. WV throwing the 1-3-1 zone late in the game was a good example. Point guards should recognize what is happening and choose the option(s) that are practiced against those changes. If you know what your own team's weakness is it shouldn't be hard to figure out what your opponents will do. They're going to keep doing the same thing to you until you prove you can stop them. Flexibility.
