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Message: [QUOTE="malpearl31, post: 2973191, member: 6520"] I don't think it's so much that "three point shooting is over-rated" as much as it is that three point shooting is just one piece of the puzzle. There's a better stat called Effective Field Goal Percentage (eFG%) that takes into account both 2-pt shooting and 3-pt shooting. Example 1: When we lost to North Carolina in the Final Four in 2016 (score was 83-66), we held the Tar Heels to 23.5% shooting from 3-pt range. Pretty good, right? But that was only on 17 3-pt FG attempts, so the percentage doesn't tell the full story. Carolina also shot 31-48, or 64.6% from inside the arc in that game (I was there, it was brutal as I'm sure we all probably remember). The combined 2-pt and 3-pt shooting numbers gave Carolina an eFG% of 56.9% for the game, which is pretty damn good. Example 2: When we lost to Duke 69-65 in the Tourney last year, we held them to 5-26 (19.2%) from 3-pt range and 17-30 (56.7%) from 2-pt range for an eFG% allowed of 43.8%. But even eFG% doesn't always tell the full story... because an eFG% of 43.8 is not bad by any means... what hurt us in that Duke game was that we sent them to the FT line for 28 attempts and they knocked down 20 of them (we were only 11-17 from the FT line). Example 3: When we beat Wisconsin in the 2012 Tournament (an amazing game, 64-63 was the final), the Badgers shot 14-27 (51.9%) from 3-pt range, but we held them to a paltry 7-22 (31.8%) inside the arc - and we only allowed them to shoot 12 free throws for the whole game (they made 7). Their eFG% for the game was 57.1% - pretty damn good - but their lack of FTs and a fantastic offensive performance of our own (our eFG% was 60.2%) allowed us to escape with the W. I'm a stats guy (if you couldn't already tell), so I really enjoy digging into the numbers to better understand the game. [/QUOTE]

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