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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2969635, member: 289"]
This is a companion to my post on three point defense. These are the numbers since 1986-87 (’1987’):

1987 .529 vs. .448 = +81 	 
1988 .541 vs. .449 = +92		 
1989 .575 vs. .470 = +105	 
1990 .571 vs. .449 = +122	 
1991 .513 vs. .465 = +48		 
1992 .471 vs. .471 = Even	 
1993 .520 vs. .459 = +61		 
1994 .529 vs. .448 = +81		 
1995 .537 vs. .435 = +102	 
1996 .502 vs. .459 = +43 	 
1997 .468 vs. .443 = +25		 
1998 .481 vs. .459 = +22 	 
1999 .507 vs. .409 = +98		 
2000 .509 vs. .442 = +67		 
2001 .474 vs. .454 = +20		 
2002 .493 vs. .450 = +43		 
2003 .519 vs. .436 = +83		 
2004 .505 vs. .457 = +48		 
2005 .543 vs. .431 = +112	 
2006 .496 vs. .424 = +72		 
2007 .485 vs. .405 = +80		 
2008 .533 vs. .468 = +65		 
2009 .557 vs. .481 = +76		 
2010 .571 vs. .462 = +109	 
2011 .527 vs. .444 = +83 	 
2012 .519 vs. .425 = +94		 
2013 .485 vs. .426 = +59		 
2014 .477 vs. .455 = +22		 
2015 .483 vs. .459 = +24		 
2016 .472 vs. .481 = -9		 
2017 .512 vs. .455 = +57		 
2018 .466 vs. .451 = +15		 
2019 .493 vs. .468 = +35

Generally our best teams have bene the strongest in scoring and stopping the other team within the arc. The zone is designed to push teams outside and make them reliant on jumpers from there which, by nature, are the most erratic skill in the game. We do a pretty good job of that, although the results vary. Two of our best teams in defending the two are 1999, another team which lost an 8-9 game and 2007, an NIT team. But we have certainly slipped in this department in the last few years. The big drop-off has bene on offense. we’ve been under .500 on two point shots  in 6 of the last 7 years after being above .500 for 5 years in a row before that and 19 times between 1987-2012. The downturn dates from when JB came back from the London Olympics, (with Mike D’ Antoni), and began running isos and pick and rolls instead of a motion and fast-breaking offense as we had been. It also generally corresponds to when we have had poor offensive centers, save for Rakeem Christmas’s senior year, although the one time we hit .500 of our two pointers was in 2017 when we also had the best three point shooting team we’ve had in that time. .
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