Still can’t guard the 3

seccats04 · 2026-11-06T19:05:44-0600

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 · 2026-11-06T19:06:34-0600

Tale as old as time.

Drogon · 2026-11-06T19:18:03-0600

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 · 2026-11-06T19:18:20-0600

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

seccats04 · 2026-11-06T19:39:21-0600

MonsterMash79 said:
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 · 2026-11-06T19:50:23-0600

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 · 2026-11-06T20:00:37-0600

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 · 2026-11-06T20:02:42-0600

HowardDaDuckDoe said:
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 · 2026-11-06T20:06:05-0600

These guys can’t guard me.

seccats04 · 2026-11-06T20:10:52-0600

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

bnewt · 2026-11-06T20:34:11-0600

seccats04 said:
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 · 2026-11-06T20:35:26-0600

It might get ugly on Tuesday night

Wildcat_in_DC · 2026-11-06T20:38:19-0600

MonsterMash79 said:
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 · 2026-11-06T20:39:35-0600

MonsterMash79 said:
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 · 2026-11-06T20:40:03-0600

Loucatfan30 said:
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 · 2026-11-06T20:42:12-0600

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

We shot 10-28, better than they did.

Bluegrass79 · 2026-11-06T20:43:55-0600

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

cornbreadnmilk · 2026-11-06T20:44:09-0600

Ash Williams said:
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 · 2026-11-06T20:45:06-0600

cornbreadnmilk said:
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 · 2026-11-06T20:45:26-0600

Tuesday is gonna be a bloodbath

Wildcat_in_DC · 2026-11-06T20:45:47-0600

Ash Williams said:
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 · 2026-11-06T20:45:58-0600

RunninRichie said:
Tuesday is gonna be a bloodbath

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

Ash Williams · 2026-11-06T20:54:34-0600

Wildcat_in_DC said:
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 · 2026-11-06T23:00:46-0600

Cats_2010 said:
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

Still can’t guard the 3

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