Still can’t guard the 3

[seccats04]

Last year we literally ran away from 3 point shooters. It was baffling. This year we always over help and leave the shooter wide open. It never gets corrected. Mind blowing.

 

[loublue22_rivals308424]

Tale as old as time.

 

[Drogon]

Why use your length in a zone(and im not even a proponent of it, but.....) when you can play run-around-like-a-chicken-with-its-head-cutoff-defense

 

[MonsterMash79]

Complete trash. JMU won’t hit half of these 3’s all year..

 

[seccats04]

Complete trash. JMU won’t hit half of these 3’s all year..

Well, you’re probably right but other teams will play better defense.

 

[Dward13]

I think conceding the 3 is just a staple of Mark Pope defense. Unless a dude has never made one, you can’t leave division 1 players open all night. Even the worst shooters can get a rhythm and burn you if you do that.

 

[HowardDaDuckDoe]

they shot out of their ***. Yall remember the Cal teams constantly getting lit up by trash these early season games, and in the NCAAT?

 

[Wunky]

they shot out of their ***. Yall remember the Cal teams constantly getting lit up by trash these early season games, and in the NCAAT?

Because Cal did the same thing — switch everything and go under every screen. Stupid. Just fundamentally stupid and lazy basketball.

 

[cat tat2]

These guys can’t guard me.

 

[seccats04]

We can’t guard anyone off the dribble and leave guys wide open on threes. Not a good combo.

 

[bnewt]

We can’t guard anyone off the dribble and leave guys wide open on threes. Not a good combo.

Never have been able too, but never changes defense

 

[Loucatfan30]

It might get ugly on Tuesday night

 

[Wildcat_in_DC]

Complete trash. JMU won’t hit half of these 3’s all year..

nonsense. they made 14-34 in the opener agaisnt miami OH (which they lost). this is who they are and what they do. and either:
A) they scouted poorly
or
B) players couldnt execute it

my guess its (C) both

 

[Cats_2010]

Complete trash. JMU won’t hit half of these 3’s all year..

They hit 14 in their first game. Pope had to know coming in what they were going to do and he still didn’t have an answer to stop it. His hope they miss defense finally paid off in the 2nd half so good job pope I guess.

 

[peterpiper09]

It might get ugly on Tuesday night

I don’t know
Kansas doesn’t look good at all
Just have the luxury of the other team can’t make a wide open 3, layup, or FT.

 

[Ash Williams]

They shot 15-45, that's 33%. Not great, just average.

We shot 10-28, better than they did.

 

[Bluegrass79]

You can't play the outscore game with people unless you can really block shots at the 3 ,4 ,and 5.

 

[cornbreadnmilk]

They shot 15-45, that's 33%. Not great, just average.

We shot 10-28, better than they did.

Did you watch the game? They were wide in most and we were lucky they are a poor team.

 

[Ash Williams]

Did you watch the game? They were wide in most and we were lucky they are a poor team.

I watched the game. Did you read the box score? Show me where what I said was incorrect.

 

[RunninRichie]

Tuesday is gonna be a bloodbath

 

[Wildcat_in_DC]

They shot 15-45, that's 33%. Not great, just average.

We shot 10-28, better than they did.

we shot 3% better from three than them but they outscored us by 15 from deep. combined with uk giving up 14 offensive rebounds to a much smaller team. you will lose a lot of games playing like that

 

[Catastic5]

Tuesday is gonna be a bloodbath

Holding out hope that Kansas won’t be that good.

 

[Ash Williams]

we shot 3% better from three than them but they outscored us by 15 from deep. combined with uk giving up 14 offensive rebounds to a much smaller team. you will lose a lot of games playing like that

Maybe, but we also outscored them by 9 overall and only had 7 turnovers with MM having an off game. bCould have been worse. Teams that shoot a bunch of threes usually get a lot of offensive rebounds due to the long bounces. Not sure you noticed the final score in your "analysis."

 

[tls]

They hit 14 in their first game. Pope had to know coming in what they were going to do and he still didn’t have an answer to stop it. His hope they miss defense finally paid off in the 2nd half so good job pope I guess.

The Cats are tall not quick .. No way you can keep them from shooting the 3 if they really want to and they did .. especially when you have the M and M boys in together

I noticed Ousmane played 17 minutes only scored 3 points but had a +- of +11
Defense was better when he was on the floor