We don’t have outside shooters but we want to take more jump shots that are lower percentage? If you want to argue we should pound the ball inside more id agree but this mid range stuff is absurd.
Shot chart from today:
As a Yankees fan, this is the same attitude of sticking to the analytics that has plagued that franchise for the past 4 years.
I’m not arguing for more 3’s. I’m arguing against more mid ranges.
Do you want to take another look at that chart?
No successful basketball coach in college or the NBA schemes to take more mid range jumpers. If you want to go against proven basketball analytical data that’s your prerogative.
It may favor the 2, but not the mid-range 2
Is there statistics that prove that mid ranges lead to more offensive rebounds? I don’t think that’s true
Then we should get more inside 2’s rather than mid range 2’s.
In the era of three point shots, Our coach has managed to put together a team that can’t shoot them. Jackson plays the 2 or 3 and has some of the worst shot mechanics I’ve ever seen.
Mid ranges also lend themselves to more follow ups and different rebound situations. We can't go strictly by shooting percentages. With the height we have, that should favor us.
Jackson is currently shooting 10% better from 3 than 3 point specialist Polley.
I don't have that data, but I'd like to see it.
Thank you, I appreciate your permission.
If you look at that chart, I actually suspect it may actually favor the mid range two, but I haven’t done the math. But I think the point is that we need to be judicious about the number of threes we take.
Not really a theory if it’s an approach that is proven and utilized by all good NBA and NCAA teams.
We definitely need to stop taking so many 3's, especially contested ones. Not sure what we shoot on mid-range shots but we'd have to shoot 45% on 2's to get more points per possession than the 30% we shoot on 3's. Doesn't account for any rebounding stats so it's not a real answer, but a good judge
I’ll go with the data that we saw today in which we scored more points than we have in the last 5 out of 6 games….between RJ and Martin floaters and stop and pull ups- that’s what won us the game and scored more points. Not threes nor Sanogo turning the ball over 3 times he had the ball in the paint.
Tonight we let MU back in the game by missing 3's. Theory, approach, what have you. We missed and MU came back to within 1 freaking point.
Transition baskets which I’m all for and Tyrese and RJ being great. That’s what got the ball in the hoop most.
You don’t understand math do you? At 30% the three is not a better shot.
Whaley passed from inside the arc, twice, in the same possession. Not sure why he doesn’t have a little jump hook yet.