How are our 3PT This Bad?

[SimonSays]

I didn’t see an appropriate forum to post this on so I made this , apologies if this should be allotted else where. This one huge outlier why we stink.

Someone needs to tell Red this and explain it he’s 5 (which was never really an issue under JB):

Three-point percentage shows how good a team is at making three-point shots, which are worth more points. Teams that take and make a lot of three-pointers can score more and win more games. In today’s basketball, good three-point shooting is a key strategy for success.

 

[Cusefan0307]

We have no shooters. The one shooter we supposedly had lost his ability to the MonStars.

 

[Zelda Zonk]

Seriously wondering if the loss of GMac is directly responsible.
Maybe Bell would have gone through similar stretches in the past but GMac was able to get him back online. Who’s on the staff that was ever a great shooter?

I‘m sure the ’it’s not necessary to have an experienced ex-big man to coach big men’ contingent will echo the same with shooting…. But it feels kinda coincidental—our ex-shooter coach leaves and our current shooter falls off a cliff.

 

[RyanCuse44]

We have no shooters. The one shooter we supposedly had lost his ability to the MonStars.

Yep and Choppa has it a rough patch lately too, I guess it's the freshman blues right now.

 

[pwong]

Our point guard play is really bad, our one shot creator is hurt, and our best 3 point shooter can’t get anything off because we don’t have anyone who can create for him/doesn’t do well off screens and he’s in a shooting slump.

 

[Fly Rodder]

Seriously wondering if the loss of GMac is directly responsible.

I don't know. He's only got two shooters at Siena. One is a sophomore from last season (and to be fair, he's shooting 43% this season on 90 attempts), but it's not like he couldn't shoot last season (30% on 46 attempts total, needed to make 5 more to get to 43% on that volume). FT% are pretty similar. His other shooter is a JUCO transfer in his first year of D1.

 

[Zelda Zonk]

I don't know. He's only got two shooters at Siena. One is a sophomore from last season (and to be fair, he's shooting 43% this season on 90 attempts), but it's not like he couldn't shoot last season (30% on 46 attempts total, needed to make 5 more to get to 43% on that volume). FT% are pretty similar. His other shooter is a JUCO transfer in his first year of D1.

Yeah, i've said many times that it's (near) impossible to assess assistant coaching and their influences. With us, though, there's clearly a diminishment. With Siena, i/we have no idea who left that role and if maybe they were already competent in it, so adding GMac may have made less of an impact? I dunno. Spitballing. I do, though, think now that the coincidence is "a big coincidence."

 

[AZOrange]

The Dome is a terrible venue for shooting is part of it

 

[SwagSocks]

The Dome is a terrible venue for shooting is part of it

Tell that to the opposing teams that have come in and shot the lights out. I dont buy this at all.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

The one shooter we supposedly had lost his ability to the MonStars.

...

Honestly, that theory kinda makes sense.

Occam's razor, and whatnot.

 

[Blanko97]

The Dome is a terrible venue for shooting is part of it

Except they arent much better on the road, and they have had plenty of good shooters in the dome historically.

 

[kingtidge]

You need to run an offense to get shooters open.

Simple, basic schemes and such.

That said, we have chucked up enough random bricks to be better than we are... so we certainly have to add bad luck to the equation as well.

 

[Cusefan0307]

The Dome is a terrible venue for shooting is part of it

Our shooters just suck this year.

I only spot checked a couple of our good shooters, but JG3 for instance had a year where he shot 45% in the dome and 33% on the road. He was 42% in the dome, 40% road and 37% neutral for his career.

Buddy shot 39% for his career in the dome, 36 neutral and 32 on the road.

Trevor Cooney shot 35% in the dome 38% neutral and 30 on the road.

Brandon Triche was 37% in the dome, 32% road and neutral.

Tyler Lydon was 40% in the dome, 44% neutral and 36% on the road.

Chris Bell himself is 37% in the dome, 36% neutral and 34% on the road.

 

[kuethstheman]

Because of overall suckage, other teams don't have to help so no one is getting easy shots. They're all forced, especially Bell's. Occasionally, someone gets an open shot, but they're already stressed so they rush those.

We need a few different guys to hit shots and we need a couple low-post threats to force teams to help. This would open things up. Some decent sets and any motion at all would help, but without multiple scoring threats, it won't make enough of a difference.

After JJ returns, and if Freemen becomes the kind of inside scorer that I think he can be, then maybe it can happen. Freeman clearly needs more minutes to get there. I hope his limp from the Wake game was transient and I hope Red stops limiting his minutes.

Meanwhile, everyone is making everyone else worse, not better. This team is less than the sum of its parts.