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has got to be a subject high on the list for the squad...making them and defending them. This team never had many opportunities to play "over their head" with the way they shoot 3s. At Wisconsin we willed a couple in. Nine out of nine against PSU proved to be fools gold. Good teams shoot dagger 3s and we need to improve. Defending the 3 has also been an Achilles heel for this team. The previously mentioned weight room and shooting a million 3s this summer will do this team a world of good. Better days are coming.
 

sal said:
has got to be a subject high on the list for the squad...making them and defending them. This team never had many opportunities to play "over their head" with the way they shoot 3s. At Wisconsin we willed a couple in. Nine out of nine against PSU proved to be fools gold. Good teams shoot dagger 3s and we need to improve. Defending the 3 has also been an Achilles heel for this team. The previously mentioned weight room and shooting a million 3s this summer will do this team a world of good. Better days are coming.
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It didn't help that when our guys drove, they didn't dish it out to an open 3-point shooter. I'm not sure if that's the passer's fault (likely) or the shooters' fault for not moving into open position.

It seemed that is where we got hammered the most this year, the drive and dish to open 3-shooters against the defender who collapsed.

One reason why we are not nearly as good at this is that DJ and Carter are not true 3-point threats, thus taking away a defender's outside responsibility against those two players.
 

The 3-point defense probably couldn't be worse--Is anyone shocked that the problem showed up tonight? You would think that is something the coaches stressed, but it certainly didn't show.
 

2 real questions...

Why go into a 2-3 zone that has a known weakness for allowing the outside shot?

Why put Hoffarber on Abrams? Abrams simply ran to the other side of the court and got a 10 foot lead on Blake, pump faked and Blake dove past, and then continued to hit another 3...
 



I totally agree, we had to know that Abrams is a deadly shooter, and so I would've loved to see us absolutely harass him on the outside. It mightve taken us using plenty of fouls while fighting through screens, or fouls hanging on to him, whatever. When you have a shooter like that you have to frustrate them and make them really earn any open shots they get. From what Ive seen of Abrams this year, he is willing to hoist up 3s no matter what. We really needed to harass him and even knock him down once or twice. He looked way too comfortable.
 



MN Gopher Fan said:
2 real questions...

Why go into a 2-3 zone that has a known weakness for allowing the outside shot?

Why put Hoffarber on Abrams? Abrams simply ran to the other side of the court and got a 10 foot lead on Blake, pump faked and Blake dove past, and then continued to hit another 3...
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Because Texas was eating us up early in the 2nd half on the drive past our man D. So Tubby took a chance with the switch to a 2-3, and at first it worked well. Then suddenly after Westbrook missed an open 3 to tie the game, Abrams burst into flames and ended the game within one minute of play. I'd argue that had we not gone to zone, that Abrams would not have had 4 3's in a one-minute span; however, I'd also argue that had we not gone to zone, that we'd not have caught up within 3 anyway. The result likely would have been about the same D switch or no D switch. I'm curious why we didn't try a 1-3-1 or 1-2-2 zone instead, but I'm assuming that Tubby refrained from that because of the way Pittman was working our bigs underneath.
 



Tubby's defense requires a double down on the post player no matter if they are a 5 minute a game sub???????? Thus open three's with rotation of the ball.
 

march madness said:
Tubby's defense requires a double down on the post player no matter if they are a 5 minute a game sub???????? Thus open three's with rotation of the ball.
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That's what I see...it's either Tubby's decision or the players are collapsing on their own. Other teams don't do that much to us - and coincidentally, we shoot relatively poorly from the 3 line. Collapsing defense probably correlates directly with 3-point shooting % against.
 

cncmin said:
That's what I see...it's either Tubby's decision or the players are collapsing on their own. Other teams don't do that much to us - and coincidentally, we shoot relatively poorly from the 3 line. Collapsing defense probably correlates directly with 3-point shooting % against.
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yeah - i thought that collapsing was a poor choice - I know their big man was good, but it just didn't seem to work. The 2-3 late seem to work ok though.
 

One of my points was that shouldnt we scout who we play? I can see doubling down on Pittman, but what about doubling down on frontcourt players with no post game. Majerus was an awesome coach. He would leave players wide open who were afraid to shoot and double the hot hand. They would shoot and miss.
 



Interesting watching Duke guard Abrams tonight. They face-guarded and clearly told whomever was guarding him to NEVER leave to help...ever. That proved to work in shutting down Abrams, but it absolutely helped Texas score in the 2nd half. Texas simply lined Abrams up on the wing about 30 feet out. Then, Varez Ward - knowing that he would see no one helping on his penetration - just ate alive the Duke defense. He got to the rim at will with no one helping to guard him until he got close. Then it was either score on his own or dish to a big. Duke was very lucky. Texas is a GOOD team. They suffer on defense and that is weird because they have athletes to defend.
 

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