It’s not really the analytics that say we can’t win a championship.
True. Silas has been reluctant to take a lot of shots until recently. He was very selective with his shots and then started to take a few more over time. Might be time for Solo to take a step back from shooting like he is far and away the top shot taker on the team and be a bit more selective.
Actually if it is truly 0% (and not something like 0.0001% rounded down to 0%.
I'm really not in favor of Mullins super quick threes from 30 feet any more than more threes from Solo. GOOD shots should be the goal.
I kind of agree though I thought when the whistle first blew that they were calling a block on Smith. He clearly fouled the Xavier guy though I think it shouldn’t have been called flagrant. What I thought happened was once they reviewed it the saw Smith clearly committed a foul and they missed it. So given that UConn had the game in hand and they couldn’t call a common foul they basically called the flagrant to get around the problem. I’m guessing if it was 65-63 they don’t make that call.
I think it’s another case where if you watch the games, you can see how he has gotten to where he is. Early season, it seemed like he was taking a high volume of low-percentage 3’s, plus it seemed like he was always trying to draw fouls on his 3s. Likely a function of teams hawking him this year as the team’s best 3pt shooter based on last year’s phenomenal shooting on a large sample size. A decent sample of less-than-quality shots put him below 30%.
There is a quantifiable chance that his 3pt shooting last year was a total fluke. It’s more than 0%, but I don’t think the “true” story on Solo is that he is really a sub-30% 3pt shooter
32% as a freshman without using arbitrary cutoff points(that 45% figure that was thrown out in this thread isn't even factual), now 29% as a junior on a 3ball that has been broke since October(unless the new BY narrative is that he's had a wrist issue all year). I would love to see him go nuclear to cap off the season but this is probably a topic we'll have to re-visit next season.
You don’t shoot how he shot last season and be a bad shooter. I think that close to impossible. Something is off, but if you recall he was arguably the best shooter in CBB last season. Fluky would be if he shot around 35-36%. He was undeniably a dominant elite shooter last season. And the year before you could clearly see that potential as well. He didn’t get many opportunities after the OOC schedule.
Totally - and he has beautiful form. Kid was actually shooting around 44% up until the last few weeks. The kid is in a funk. It started a couple games before the BE tourney last year, shot 30% over his last 6 after being about 44-45 most of the year.
Those rainbows are one thing. The tips and steals and pesky D for a kid that slight is definitely another. The kid has springs in his shoes.
The game logs I looked at didn’t include the postseason. My bad, I guess. 16-36 is 44.4%. Include the postseason and it drops to 40%. And while it’s somewhat arbitrary it’s pretty easy to build the narrative that once he got his feet wet after being thrown into heavy minutes as a freshman that were never intended for him, he shot the ball pretty darn well. And he shot over 40% for about 1 and 3/4 seasons consecutively.
Not you, just in general we all like to have something to be agreeably disagreeable about.
Yeah, Hurleys postgame comments about Reibe and his inner circle were a bit troubling.
Hurley definitely spoke about it as if there’s problems in the Reibe camp. There was no reason for Hurley to go there unless some issue exists. Hurley implied that the minutes Reibe’s getting and/or his role on the court isn’t something the Reibe circle is pleased with.
I will take his real quick shots shooting 39% over the 29% we are presently getting from Ball. I still want ball to shoot but doing more 2's while driving incluinding his midrange shots he gets off a few dribbles.
Absolutely useless garbage pretending to be information. Similar to Bracketology and NFL mock drafts in September.
0% looks nicer to show on the scorebug than 0.34345765% so they round the number
Hard to know - was vague enough to be nothing. His camp having an issue would be surprising as I’m not sure what the expectation was. He’s getting 16.5 mpg behind an all league senior. If there is a problem then it would seem unrealistic. Clingan got less time.
You really think he is forcing 3's? Seems to me his is mostly just missing open ones. Everyone who shoots the ball will have some ill-advised decisions from time to time. You have to live with that to some extent. They aren't robots. But from my perspective Ball's problems are less about shot selection and more about execution. At some point though you have to adjust if what you are doing is not working. What's that they say about the definition of insanity?
Agreed, unless Reibe's camp was hoping he would be one and done. Is that impossible to think for a McDonald's All-American?
If you listen to anyone, he had a poor senior season and dropped in the rankings. I'm sure Dan Hurley set expectations as well. I can't think he was thinking OAD in this class. I would wager to guess he'll hit the draft next year.
Good lord. I know math is hard, but you do understand that both years combined are STILL less than the sample size from last season. He shot 41.4% on 239 attempts last season. This season and his freshman season - COMBINED - he has 215 attempts. So, yes, I'm still going with the larger sample size, especially since it does not include an injury to the wrist on his shooting hand.
That's like saying you'll take Ball's shots if you just focus on that one made 35 footer. The next "insane" shot Mullins makes will be just about the first.
