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[QUOTE="BlueMAB, post: 4130775, member: 920"]
Instead of cherry-picking stats/games, let's look at Polley's career numbers to judge him as a shooter.  Anything short of that is using statistics to paint a pre-determined narrative rather than honest discussion.

Polley 3PT%
17-18 - 41.7%
18 -19 - 38.0%
19 - 20 - 40.5%
20 - 21 - 35.5%
21 - 22 - 30.8%

His shooting has regressed the last 2 years, there's no denying he's streaky.  There is no argument to be made that a guy who shoots 37.2% from deep for his career "isn't a good shooter" unless you're just a bad fan who wants to badmouth a player.

[URL='https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/connecticut/leaders-and-records-career.html']He's currently the 5th best 3PT shooter in UConn history, just behind Rip, ahead of Vital.[/URL]

Edit:
Rashad Anderson shot 38.6% for his career.  Every 100 threes, Rashad made 1.4 more than Polley.  Statistically, he's not all that superior to Polley.  Our problem isn't that Polley isn't a good shooter, it's that he hasn't had the ability to consistently make shots when we really need him to. Unlike Rashad who we felt would never miss, but who in fact shot less than 39%.

Nobody talked about Polley's "0-For the Game" effort against Coppin State because we won by 35.
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