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[QUOTE="CuseFaninVT, post: 1990996, member: 2002"]
Liked nearly all of this post, but find I need to question your description of the shots in the first half as good shots.  Some of them were, but I felt like too many of them were from NBA distance and that threw us off for a lot of the game.

I really wish this graphic had the NBA line overlaid as well, but I think it illustrates my point pretty well.

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I count about 7 attempts that were well outside most of the ranges of our players.

This is the second half version as well.

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We started to get it dialed in a bit, but if our players had just taken that one step in, especially Frank and Tyler, then I think those shot charts would look very different.

By the way, I got this from the ESPN site and it shows who took each shot.  Love that we focused inside so much more in the second half.

I talked with a former college player last night and he confirmed that it is really hard to not shoot from that NBA line when you are playing on one of those courts.  Maybe the mental aspect of trying to remember which line to shoot from would offset the advantage of shooting from inside the NBA line. I don't know. I do know that we seem to shoot poorly every time we start out on an NBA painted floor.  Heck, UCONN players did as well in the first half.
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