3 point shooting

[Bowfreak.]

I don't think Frederick is as successful running his man from one side of the court to the other side off a screen and taking a shot. I believe within an offense where the ball is moved and on transition threes he would be near 50%. He's not Jamaal Murray he is more of a Kyle Wiltjer type of shooter.

 

[bbanks81]

For the year:

Reeves - 39/100 - 39%
Wallace - 33/79 - 41.8%
Fredrick - 25/67 - 37.3%

Solid given that each player has had at least one clunker.

I’d like to see the stats vs. P6 teams. Looks good on the year, but they are missing way too many wide open three vs. good comp

 

[Paulyv94]

To be fair, GA has a pretty good 3 pt defense, and those guys were not getting open. It will all come together soon.

 

[westerncat]

Yeah, but they're supposed to be good enough shooters to break games open. They were hitting their open shots in the Bahamas, but their shooting has been less than average since the season started.

Reeves had a wide, wide, wide open three off a steal and a runout, shot a brick. CJ was way short twice in row, the second one ended up being the first pass in UGA's fast break dunk.

Other teams hit those shots, for whatever reason, we don’t and those guys really need to hit those open shots.

Wallace hits them, probably shouod take more.

In the Bahamas Cal was not coaching and screaming at them or pulling them if they made a mistake. I really think Oscar telling Cal he needs to stop all the screaming is very telling. He has the team playing very tight and needs to stop all the screaming and just let the guys play like they did in the Bahamas.

 

[megablue]

For the year:

Reeves - 39/100 - 39%
Wallace - 33/79 - 41.8%
Fredrick - 25/67 - 37.3%

Solid given that each player has had at least one clunker.

For us to be able to beat really good teams, especially any with bigs that Oscar might struggle against, TWO (2) of these THREE (3) will simply HAVE to have hot shooting nights and/or get to the FT-line a lot and hit them. Last year, for example, against St. Peters ... Grady, Washington and Mintz were extremely cold as a group. It is obvious that we do not have enough with-the-ball talent to play the dribble-drive (maybe next year), so we simply HAVE to shoot well from the perimeter. Let's be honest ... Oscar is not going get 20+ points every night against the teams we have to beat to make any noise. Our shooting will have to carry us ... that has become glaringly obvious !!! I hope we can shoot well enough to get us into the tournament, and then, maybe we can go on a run of torrid shooting ... like some tourney teams have done in the past. Why not us, this year ?? GO CATS !!

 

[megablue]

It's not solid though. Reeves was a 46% shooter coming in and CJ was at damn near 50%.

Their percentages are dropping. CJ and Reeves should be hitting 3 a game, each. They’re getting wide open looks.

Honestly, I have no idea how their percentages are 39 and 37. I thought CJ was in the 20's just 2 weeks ago and he hasn’t been milling it from outside. He was somewhere around 1-8 last night.

Reeves is shooting better from 3-point range than he did at Illinois State in total (he shot 39% last year), much like Grady shot the three better here than in his previous four (4) years at Davidson. The question for Reeves ... can he keep it up ?? fwiw ... Reeves' 2pt% is down from his previous years. He needs to improve there.

Let's just hope the Law of Averages will help Fredrick go on a hot streak ... as he is surely due for one.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/antonio-reeves-1.html

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/cj-fredrick-1.html

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/kellan-grady-1.html

 

[BBBLazing]

Did I say anything about missing a single shot and being yanked? Let me check…

Nope. Sure didn’t. I used the word struggle. To struggle is not to merely miss one shot. It’s to go 1-8 like CJ did. And your retort may be, “Well, then he doesn’t hit the one big three point shot that he did hit if he’s on the bench after struggling.” And that’s true, but it’s also true that any number of players could’ve made the wide-open three at the top of the key off of an offensive rebound.

I watched a documentary about Larry Bird's trash talking tonight. One of the guys, I can't remember who, said that when he was a rookie Bird was talking all kinds of **** to him, and told him "next time down I'm going to score from 30' on you." Bird threw up an airball from 30' and when the rookie tried to give him **** back Bird said "yeah, but I can do that 4 trips in a row and stay in the game, you can't." That is why he would score 40 after going 0-6 in the first quarter.

 

[26MichaelUK]

For this team to get to the next level, our shooters have to hit threes.

It’s been a struggle for two guys that were elite before they got here. I mean, CJ went something like 1-8 today. He was a 50% shooter coming in.

If these guys don't start catching their groove from the outside, every game is going to be a struggle and the losses are going to build.

We have all seen teams struggle with shooting all year, then right at tournament time, they hit threes like crazy. Hopefully we catch fire sometime soon.

Call it playstation basketball all you want, but it’s a necessary ingredient to winning at this level.

Agreed Jeff. I'm hoping instead of being on fire and going ice cold in the tourney per usual maybe this year we'll get the reverse. The conundrum is we need to make shots to get into the damn tournament.

 

[Cobb4uk_rivals287622]

That's because he leans back on every jumper. I agree. It blows my mind how kids NEVER use the square anymore. Kevin Grevey and Goose Givens made a living using it on either side of the lane. It is a HUGE asset to be able to use it. Kenny Walker could jump OVER defenders and was great using it on the block.

Don't know why Cal hasn't worked on the leaning with him or if he has why he keeps doing it. It throws his shot off and he has a 47 inch vertical, so why not lean INTO the shot? That way he could draw more fouls to get to the line where he is great.

Also, he doesn't need to shoot 10 shots/game like he did tonight unless it is lobs, drives or putbacks, not jumpers. He is best going toward the basket.

Three point shots has changed how players choose to learn the game today. Just think how many think a midrange shots are wasted, move out to shot a 3. Even the 5 spot has/is changing more toward the 3.

 

[richbrookstomato]

Three point shots has changed how players choose to learn the game today. Just think how many think a midrange shots are wasted, move out to shot a 3. Even the 5 spot has/is changing more toward the 3.

If a kid would use the square for a kid-range game, he could DOMINATE the game today. Heck kids don’t even know how to defend in those areas anymore because their are no longer any players that are good at it.

 

[mcwildcats04]

Seems like Fredrick needs more time to nail his threes and really needs to be set whereas Reeves is more capable of hitting when it's a rushed three. Either way, we need better shooting from both moving forward.

 

[Cobb4uk_rivals287622]

In the Bahamas Cal was not coaching and screaming at them or pulling them if they made a mistake. I really think Oscar telling Cal he needs to stop all the screaming is very telling. He has the team playing very tight and needs to stop all the screaming and just let the guys play like they did in the Bahamas.

Sorry but the competition in the Bahamas was terrible. I truly believe top high school in the nation could have beaten a couple of those teams, they were that bad. It's much easier to play when there's no pressure what so ever.

 

[yabbadabbadoo_rivals213851]

I think these guys will start shooting better if they are allowed to keep playing as a group. They’ll start feeding off each other. Takes time for that cohesion to build to a comfort level.

 

[mcwildcats04]

Sorry but the competition in the Bahamas was terrible. I truly believe top high school in the nation could have beaten a couple of those teams, they were that bad. It's much easier to play when there's no pressure what so ever.

If I recall, we also struggled in that last game in the Bahamas. I think it was close until well into the second half.