A non biased view of Trevor Cooney's 3pt shooting.

[Cusefan0307]

I posted this in another thread, but it got lost in translation. For everyone's enjoyment.

Trevor Cooney was 26-54 against mid-majors for 48% (WMU and Dayton Included)

Trevor Cooney was 64-186 against Majors for 34.5%

I separated his games at 33 percent because that's what equals 50 percent two point shooting.

The 16 games he shot lower than 33%

0-4 Fordham
1-5 Colgate
1-5 Baylor
0-3 St Johns
2-12 Miami
2-12 UNC
2-8 Pitt
0-5 Wake
1-6 BC
0-3 Duke
2-10 Maryland
3-10 Virginia
1-8 G Tech
2-8 FL State
1-6 NC State
0-4 Dayton

18-109 for 16.5 Percent

In the 18 games he shot over 33%

7-8 Cornell
2-5 St Francis
5-11 Minnesota
5-8 Cal
5-9 Indiana
5-9 Binghamton
5-6 High Point
5-8 Villanova
2-5 Eastern Mich
3-8 VPI
2-5 BC
3-6 Miami
2-2 Duke
9-12 Notre Dame
3-7 Clemson
3-8 Pitt
2-6 NC State
4-8 WMU

72-131 for 55 %

Everyone wants to say Cooney stunk since Notre Dame, it did not. The analysis says Cooney's slump began with the second Boston College game (our First Loss)on February 19th. That was the first game he shot less than 33% from three which equals 50 percent from 2. Over the last 9 games he shot 14-63 from three for 22 %. In our six losses he shot 6-37 for 16%. A better performance from Cooney in any of our 6 losses could of saved us, but we shouldn't have to rely on one player from three to save us.

 

[longislandcuse]

Im not sure if you can win in CBB anymore without multiple shooters. Cooney had a guy glued to him all season. Every team knew we had nobody else with a reliable outside shot. As good as Grant is (lottery pick talent), if you replace him with James Southerland, I guarantee you we're still playing. It's not about talent as much as it is spacing for that talent. We had 3/5 of our lineup at any given time that plays inside the 3 point arc, you could probably say 4/5ths since Ennis was more of a driver/floater than a 3 point threat. One of your forwards has to have an outside shot or you will be easy to defend.

We had a ton of individual talent, unfortunately the pieces just didn't fit. If we had a pick n pop player, we would've been extremely difficult to defend.