10% from 3, 20% FT?

[RUKiid]

How does this team miss almost everything they put up? Bad shot selection? Law of averages? Before WI, they were missing layups at a record clip. Just astonishing.

 

[Captain Hogleg]

It all comes from poor foul shooting. Teams are playing super aggressive against us on defense knowing that if they send us to the line we don’t make them pay. So they can over commit on defense and it’s disrupting our offense. Make foul shots and they have to back off a little which opens up shots again. Started in the OSU game and Izzo picked up on it and perfected the model. Now everyone is doing it to us.

 

[Proud NJ Sports Fan]

Lack of focus

 

[Freddy Stubbs]

When Myles goes to the line he looks like he is just chucking the ball in the direction of the basket.

 

[Captain Hogleg]

Unfortunately it’s rubbing off on the other guys. They are doing that too. Montez has about as much chance of making a foul shot as Myles.

 

[ScottRU93]

And 57% on year at FT. Wow. That is completely inept. It’s almost unfathomable. Pike’s philosophy has to start to change to recruit shooters. I get his mold of the long athletic guy but we need players that can shoot. I hope Jones is one of those!

 

[Knight Owl]

And 57% on year at FT. Wow. That is completely inept. It’s almost unfathomable. Pike’s philosophy has to start to change to recruit shooters. I get his mold of the long athletic guy but we need players that can shoot. I hope Jones is one of those!

Jones is definitely one of those.

 

[RUKiid]

at least we are all interested enough to be frustrated with these results. Expectations are dangerous.

 

[Captain Hogleg]

And 57% on year at FT. Wow. That is completely inept. It’s almost unfathomable. Pike’s philosophy has to start to change to recruit shooters. I get his mold of the long athletic guy but we need players that can shoot. I hope Jones is one of those!

foul shooting for everyone except Myles is a mental thing. There is no reason our guards and wing players should be missing foul shots with such regularity. I’d have Mathis practicing foul shots for 2 hours after every practice until he got to 75%. He is killing us from the line and it destroys momentum. The kid can’t make a layup in traffic and when he goes to the line he back irons his one and one.

 

[richthedentist]

It all comes from poor foul shooting. Teams are playing super aggressive against us on defense knowing that if they send us to the line we don’t make them pay. So they can over commit on defense and it’s disrupting our offense. Make foul shots and they have to back off a little which opens up shots again. Started in the OSU game and Izzo picked up on it and perfected the model. Now everyone is doing it to us.

We didn’t even shoot that many foul shots again compared to Wisky

 

[Captain Hogleg]

We didn’t even shoot that many foul shots again compared to Wisky

True, but some of that is RU missing the front end of one and ones and not earning the bonus.

 

[RUKiid]

They will have to try really hard to shoot worse than this. Hopefully this will be bouncing off the bottom.