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Message: [QUOTE="Orangezoo, post: 4583794, member: 237"] So last post on this but did some more cursory digging. The concept that teams put a lot of shooters out on the court say 10-15 years ago vs today being the premise. I looked at our BE opponents primarily. Only 3 teams - Gtown, ND and Nova were putting 3 and occasionally 4 shooters on the floor that were both capable and putting up a good volume ( more than 1 or 2 a game). Interestingly all teams we saw chinks in the armor when we played them as they attacked the zone well. This is mostly starting around 07ish time frame where these teams began shooting more 3s and more shooters on the court. Outside of that it was 2 shooters at most from the rest of the BE with some exceptions in a year here or there from Pitt, Providence and Seton Hall but low efficiency and lower volumes. In 13/14 the tide began to turn where many BE teams you see shifted to more outside shooters on the court at the same time putting more shots up.. we were joining a league already full of teams that do this. I looked at Miami and VT as well, who of course bolted for the ACC earlier. Not surprisingly they were adopting a more 3pt centric offense with more shooters on the floor while the old BE beasts, Ville, UConn etc included still stuck with a couple of shooters plus bigs and driving guards. The ACC teams in general put more shooters on the floor albeit UNC being the outlier over the years going with offensive rebounding and size as the priority. In general you can see the shift in tendency that correlates to the shift in the 3ball hurting us more as more teams decisively launched away and attacked the glass to then launch some more. They've only continued to get better at it as everyone has with it being such a key to the game. Maybe if I get a rainy weekend this summer I can break down this more into figures. Either way you can see teams making the transition. We should have had two titles in that period before things started shifting. [/QUOTE]

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