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Message: [QUOTE="olehead, post: 4146247, member: 4474"] If is the key. If if was a 5th, we'd all be drunk. LA shot the shot most effective for him and it worked. Ajax's effective 3 rate suggests a "balance" of 2s and 3s. No coach in their right mind should encourage this balance in a Big East game or any high stakes game. Why? This is not his shot. Folks continue to go on about effective rate. Look at the damn game. What do you see? We have one guy on our team Right Now who most of us are comfortable with shooting the three in a clutch situation, and that's RJ. Not Polley, whose an ok player, but not clutch. Not Hawk, not yet. We are not constructed as a 3 point shooting team. Doesn't mean you don't scheme with spacing. But you don't continue to heave up shots you are not Prepared to make. It's stupid. It's why our offense lacks explosion. We should take wide-open 3s, layups obviously (when did this become a strategy by the way smh), and when mid-range is available, take it. Take the shots we can make. That simple. Put players in position to succeed. Simple. Silly to compare Nova, Zags, NBA and teams that are constructed with balance. We are comparing our team with guys who can take and make threes and guys who can get all the way to the basket for layups. 3s and 2s. How many 3s did we have last night? How many layups/dunks? [/QUOTE]