First I want to say I ABSOLUTELY 100% view basketball MUCH differently than shun does. I do NOT believe the game hinges on having great 3pt shooters, it revolves around having solid shooting efficiency and that means taking and making good shots. Basketball is not all that complicated when you boil it all down, simply take better shots than you let the other team have. Rj & Ryan, if they have a clean open look from 3 take it, that is a good shot for them, either having a fall away, hands in the face 35ft shot should pass it, not a good shot for anyone. Caleb Love was our team leading shot taker and he was either pumping a trey or driving in to 2 and 3 defenders, both bad shots, he shot 29% from 3 last season.
Folks like shun seem to feel that if it works in the NBA then bring it to college and now all the sudden folks no longer feel the need for a back to the basket big man that makes a strong % of his 2 pt shot takes. Dean Smith knew a little bit about this game, not sure if Shun knows who Dean was and if he does he surely does not seem to realize how Dean considered the 3pt shot. Dean coached shooting efficiency, shooting easier to make shots and then trying to keep the other team from getting those easy shots. I watch it all the time in the college game, I don't watch the NBA, teams will come down, especially in a close game where what they really need is to score, even 1 of the free throws, just some score, yet they come down pump up a trey the other teams gets the rebound and we have that empty trip off the heat check trey miss. They go down and make a shot and it is a 4 or 5 pt swing?
I don't hate the 3pt shot, I hate BAD SHOTS and that is defined as hard guarded shots but lots of teams will guard you hard, if given the choice between a guy like Bacot in close working against multiple defenders or a guard out front with a hand in his face taking a trey, give me Bacot in close and frankly, anyone that does not agree with that should NEVER EVER try to coach the game or act as if they know the game.
As for Ingram he is that big time glue guy, he isn't great at any one thing but he is very good at most aspects of the game (on both end I should add). Is he a great shooter, no but does he have to be? Not really, what he has to do to open the game up for himself is to hit a decent % of open clean looks from 2 or 3. Now you can point back to Stanford and say he did not shoot for a great %, well considering that not only was the kid the main facilitator on that team, where he at times played as their point, he faced multiple defenders every game because he was considered that teams #2 scorer. Is there anyone out there that considers Ingram to be our #2 scorer for this up coming season, how about it shun, do you? Pay attention now shun, don't want you to miss this next statement, if he is not going to be tapped as our second leading scorer then it is not hard to realize that he will not be defended as hard or as close as he was at Stanford, means he will get many more clean looks as opposed to multiple defenders hassling him all over the court. How can it be a stretch then to realize that his shooting efficiency should go way up as a function of his taking easier shots? LOL But no, shun is entranced with the stats for his play at Sanford last season and does not seem to understand his role is very different now that should allow him to score much more efficiently. Withers is as well much the same...
Leaky Black was a absolute awful 3pt shooter, simply put he should have never camped out behind the 3pt line and took those shots, defenses dared him to take them. BOTH Dean and Roy were well known to say there is a reason they left you wide open. For the life of me I will never understand why Leaky was not operating way more in the mid range and looking to post up defenders that could not match his length? He should have pump faked the shot and drove, defenders had to pick him up when he did that else he drove all the way to the cup.
You want the formula for UNC winning the natty this season, have 4 guys on the court beside Bacot that all are scorers enough that defenses can not double Bacot inside, then pump the ball inside and let Bacot operate. The other 4 have to score efficiently to demand defenders to stay on them and not double off. That means stop with the bad shot nonsense that sunk us last season, hopefully that can happen as the biggest culprit of this is now playing for Arizona.