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<blockquote data-quote="cjw1901" data-source="post: 1955391" data-attributes="member: 748031"><p>No worries on Dain's time. We absolutely need him, since we are not going to shoot 41% or better on 3s in most of games this year, especially since about half of those games are on the road, where teams virtually always shoot worse than at home.</p><p></p><p>We shot 31% as a team last season on 3s with mostly the same roster. That means, this was a great 3pt shooting night tonight, and I'm happy for that, but we can't count on 3PT% that high as a regular thing, and it's almost guaranteed that we won't shoot that well (or better) on 3s in our first road game at Rutgers. We shot too many 3s about twice as badly on the road as we did at home last season, which is the same mistake most teams make. Since Underwood knows this, expect Dain to start on road games and expect us to go to the basket and FT line a lot more in these games or else or our chances to win these road games go down even more. Dain is one of our keys to win games like that, as well as poor 3pt shooting games at home, which are far from unheard of for IL either. We had several games last season at around 17%, which is just awful. Yeah, that's how we got to 30.8% from 3 on the season, last season, worst in the BT and very low nationwide for D1. During that whole season Dain was our best 2pt shooter at 63.6%. Yeah, that is a great percentage, better than Edey's.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cjw1901, post: 1955391, member: 748031"] No worries on Dain's time. We absolutely need him, since we are not going to shoot 41% or better on 3s in most of games this year, especially since about half of those games are on the road, where teams virtually always shoot worse than at home. We shot 31% as a team last season on 3s with mostly the same roster. That means, this was a great 3pt shooting night tonight, and I'm happy for that, but we can't count on 3PT% that high as a regular thing, and it's almost guaranteed that we won't shoot that well (or better) on 3s in our first road game at Rutgers. We shot too many 3s about twice as badly on the road as we did at home last season, which is the same mistake most teams make. Since Underwood knows this, expect Dain to start on road games and expect us to go to the basket and FT line a lot more in these games or else or our chances to win these road games go down even more. Dain is one of our keys to win games like that, as well as poor 3pt shooting games at home, which are far from unheard of for IL either. We had several games last season at around 17%, which is just awful. Yeah, that's how we got to 30.8% from 3 on the season, last season, worst in the BT and very low nationwide for D1. During that whole season Dain was our best 2pt shooter at 63.6%. Yeah, that is a great percentage, better than Edey's. [/QUOTE]
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