Opponents shot 32.9% from 3 against us and made almost 8 threes a game against us this year. Back in the days of peak zone... opponents made closer to 30% from 3 or even less against us.
Where does Steph Curry fit into this? There is a conversation going on in the NBA about how Steph ruined the game becaus every kid thinks they can be like Steph and high school games have devolved into 3 point shooting contests. The zone concept worked great before Steph Curry because we could give up open 3s and it wasn’t an automatic make. Teams would have have one, maybe two, guys who could shoot the three and we could game plan against them. Now, becaus Of Steph, every team has a legit 4 guys who can hit a three if they are wide open. This evolution has changed the offensive strategy in college hoops... it hit the NBA a few years ago but now it’s trickled down to college. The old way to beat the zone was to get the ball to the logo and dump it to the short corner for a layup or pass it to either 10:30 or 1:30 on the 3pt line for an open 3. This year the strategy seems to have shifted hunt the corner 3s and teams are making multiple passes to get a corner 3. In the games we have gotten destroyed by threes I feel like we have given up open corner 3 after open corner 3. Our strategy today is the center or 4 has to get out to guard that corner 3... which works great if you have Hakim. When you have Chukwu abd Sidibe you get exposed.
I don’t think playing our zone is going to work in the Steph Curry era of basketball. It we need to accept the zone will get bombed and try to outscore teams.
Where does Steph Curry fit into this? There is a conversation going on in the NBA about how Steph ruined the game becaus every kid thinks they can be like Steph and high school games have devolved into 3 point shooting contests. The zone concept worked great before Steph Curry because we could give up open 3s and it wasn’t an automatic make. Teams would have have one, maybe two, guys who could shoot the three and we could game plan against them. Now, becaus Of Steph, every team has a legit 4 guys who can hit a three if they are wide open. This evolution has changed the offensive strategy in college hoops... it hit the NBA a few years ago but now it’s trickled down to college. The old way to beat the zone was to get the ball to the logo and dump it to the short corner for a layup or pass it to either 10:30 or 1:30 on the 3pt line for an open 3. This year the strategy seems to have shifted hunt the corner 3s and teams are making multiple passes to get a corner 3. In the games we have gotten destroyed by threes I feel like we have given up open corner 3 after open corner 3. Our strategy today is the center or 4 has to get out to guard that corner 3... which works great if you have Hakim. When you have Chukwu abd Sidibe you get exposed.
I don’t think playing our zone is going to work in the Steph Curry era of basketball. It we need to accept the zone will get bombed and try to outscore teams.