I believe in playing to your strengths, in this game I’ll take two twos for one three. There will be games where we will not dominate inside and threes will be relied upon more. But increasing three-point attempts just to satisfy some unquantifiable results sounds a bit risky. I’m confident that there are many three- point happy teams that would love to trade some for our strength and ability to score inside. More importantly is the need to disrupt opponents long range shooting and and then rebounding those misses. Look at the Purdue vs Marquette game. Marquette took away Purdue’s outside game and forced them into making bad passes resulting in turnovers that led to a big loss! Making treys is important, but teams relying those too heavily win or lose on that stat alone.
I certainly agree with your premise on an individual game basis. I wouldn't be shocked if Indiana could win this game taking no 3s at all.
The reason why I think this continues to be a trend worth tracking even in these early games against overmatched opponents is because we've seen the early-season shot selection habits by IU become season-long trends. So just like IU can outrebound and beat some of these teams with a lackadaisical approach on the glass, that won't be true against more similar competition. So where I get worried is if our 3-point volume is ready to increase when needed if we haven't built the habits early in the season.
I believe in playing to your strengths, in this game I’ll take two twos for one three. There will be games where we will not dominate inside and threes will be relied upon more. But increasing three-point attempts just to satisfy some unquantifiable results sounds a bit risky. I’m confident that there are many three- point happy teams that would love to trade some for our strength and ability to score inside. More importantly is the need to disrupt opponents long range shooting and and then rebounding those misses. Look at the Purdue vs Marquette game. Marquette took away Purdue’s outside game and forced them into making bad passes resulting in turnovers that led to a big loss! Making treys is important, but teams relying those too heavily win or lose on that stat alone.
I certainly agree with your premise on an individual game basis. I wouldn't be shocked if Indiana could win this game taking no 3s at all.
The reason why I think this continues to be a trend worth tracking even in these early games against overmatched opponents is because we've seen the early-season shot selection habits by IU become season-long trends. So just like IU can outrebound and beat some of these teams with a lackadaisical approach on the glass, that won't be true against more similar competition. So where I get worried is if our 3-point volume is ready to increase when needed if we haven't built the habits early in the season.