It might just be me but I do have a gut feeling that very soon the boys will come out shooting one of their best games yet all around, whether it will be against Purdue or not, but I do have a feeling that we HAVE to be better at shooting than they show us in games and they aren’t confident enough yet to show us that in game time. DP
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And yes saw the percentage vs Illni and we saw they could thru small spurts of the game just never really able to do it consistently
Jaden Jones will definitely go off in a game (20+ points) in the near future.
Hundreds of teams have been better than RU at three point shooting each of the last few years. What data are you waiting for to figure out what that means?
I just feel as if they haven’t shot in games as well as they do in practices yet. I feel one game jones will be confident enough to shoot lights out as well as others. I feel one game of great shooting for us can be expected in one of the upcoming games where they shoot great from the 3.
Setting aside that practice is practice and games are games, what is your data on how well they are shooting in practice? And does it vary from your practice data on the last few years, when we were one of the worst shooting teams in the country?
Well I’ve went to a couple of their practices and the amount of 3s they drain in practice is nothing like what they show in games. And I don’t agree with that state that “practice is practice, games is games” because all Big10 teams are putting in the work they put in practices into their games, besides Rutgers.
Sorry, but you're stacking two practices against multiple years of bad shooting--consistently bad shooting--followed by a start to this year with, guess what, bad shooting.
If you read these boards during the offseason and preseason, you'd think we'd never miss. And then--always--the real games start . . . It's a consistent, non-varying history. Not an enigma.
If you read these boards during the offseason and preseason, you'd think we'd never miss. And then--always--the real games start . . . It's a consistent, non-varying history. Not an enigma.
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Problem is we are terrible on defense and can't defend the 3 at all so even if we up our percentage we are still going to lose especially against the likes of Purdue and I don't think its going to be pretty at all
Actually not.
Everyone seems to be relatively within (+ or -) their career averages.
Harper is our best 3pt shooter and he is average at best over his career.
Mulcahy is way down but he was very choosy previously.
His attempts are up and he doesn't have the luxury of passing on shots as much.
McConnel is down but his 1st year (36%) appears to be an outlier.
His other averages are 28%/20%/13%.
Harper Jr
Career: 32%
2021: 35%
Baker
Career: 33%
2021: 35%
Mulcahy
Career: 34%
2021: 20%
Hyatt
Career: 25%
2021: 19%
McConnell
Career: 27%
2021: 13%
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/rutgers/2022.html
You are overweighting their practices.
You said it yourself - every Big10 team is making shots in practice.
If Rutgers is making just as many shots in practice as other Big10 teams - but then in games they are much worse every year, then clearly "practice shots" don't mean alot.
If you can't even hit shots in practice - you don't even make the team.
Everyone hits shots in practice.
And worse, just two practices.
A reporter (can’t recall who) went to a practice this preseason and reported that RU was shooting the lights out. Many here went ga ga. The reporter then returned and said that the shooting was bad the second time around. That story didn’t stick as much.
Any enigma is created by you crediting only what you want to be true. Few things have been more consistent than RU’S bad shooting.
and don't forget we are making them against our defense which obviously doesn't guard the 3 very well;
Alright very very true. Maybe I’m just wishing that our team could just Fing shoot haha
We don't. It's painful at times watching them in warmups shooting less than 50% uncontested and continuing to do it during the game at a 15% clip or thereabouts.
The BB IQ on this team is not high which is why we're in the position that we're in and the coaching staff is not helping to cure the matter