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Message: [QUOTE="Cuse House, post: 1633455, member: 3361"] Coming into the season, we were expecting to be a much improved shooting team. We definitely have more options than years past but the statistics aren't great. Right now we rank 143rd, in 3 point shooting percentage. In our last two games which were both big wins we have shot 40% and 47.8%. A few things that are helping our shooting lately includes: 1) Tyler Roberson and his gift for offensive rebounding. Against Duke, he had 12 and against Wake Forest, 7. I remember at least three of our made 3's coming off of a kick out after an offensive rebound from TRob to Cooney and G against Duke. When he is active, he sucks in the defense and our shooters get open looks. He doesn't need 10 offensive rebounds per game, but he is top 10 in the country in offensive rebounding so simply put, keep doing what you're doing Tyler. 2) Lydon has been pulling the trigger. Against Wake, he was 3 for 4 from three and against Duke, 2 for 3. He is currently shooting .439% from three point range. With Lydon, he has been hesitating early in ACC play. Of late, he has been pulling the trigger without thinking too much. When he shoots in rhythm he is going to make a majority of open looks. The two losses prior to our mini run he was shooting 14% from three and was playing timid. I think he has finally gotten back into his flow of the game. 3) G was struggling shooting the three ball in the early ACC games. Let's look at his shot totals from three in ACC play: Clemson 4-13 UNC 0-6 BC 1-4 Wake 0-2 Duke 2-5 Now, the first two games were abysmal and he kept shooting the three. Against BC he was 1-4, which isn't great but at least he didn't continue to shoot them and instead took better shots. He shot 5 of 8 (.625%) from 2 that game. He followed that by missing his first two against Wake but from two he was 6 of 11 (.545%) and was the same exact 6 of 11 against Duke from 2. Overall, G has been limiting his three point shooting of late when he wasn't hitting them and attacking the rim. If he continues to go towards the basket he will eventually get his touch back from deep. This team does't need to shoot absolutely crazy from three to beat good teams because the zone has been improving as we go along. If we can improve a little bit and these three things I outlined continue to happen, watch out for us in March because we will be in the tourney. [/QUOTE]

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