Plenty of teams have won championships in the last 10 years taking 40% or more of their shots from 3.
Can Oats ever win a title with this philosophy?
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I think you have to play to your teams strengths for sure, but you can look at this both ways too if you want to be negative about. You can also say you can never win a title if you can't shoot the three ball either, because if you run into a hot shooting 3 team and you can't match them trading 3's for 2's you will go home. I actually think BYU would have beat Bama, but Bama was doing this exact thing to them. I think you need to be very well balanced and adjust to you competition. There might be a lot of games where 30-35 threes is exactly what you need if you are getting and making them, but their might also be games where that is taken away and you need to pound it inside. if you are one trick pony deep in the tourney that is where you have a great chance of getting sent home. You can have a ice cold shooting night and go home though it happens.
You cannot be one-dimensional on offense … just that simple.
Yes thats basically what I am trying to say here, it doesn't mean you can't have a goal of shooting a lot of 3's but you also need to be able to adapt if they take that away.
Who are those teams? Im legit asking because I don't remember them. Villanova is the only one i can think of that might fit and they somehow had guys that didn't miss.
That said, bama and pope want more than 40% shot from three. Its just really tough to win 6 hard games in a row like that.
I thought Bama had more athleticism than duke. I was wrong. Also, duke plays both ends and bama does not work as hard defensively. Sears looked average in the game. The game showed me our team needs a big athleticism upgrade.
To be successful at a high level, you need players with great fundamental basketball skills, of course, but they also need to have “twitch” … the term used by football coaches to describe players that can quickly move and react.
UConn x 2 and Nova x 2
Virginia was at 39.5% of their shots taken from 3.
The three point rate of remaining teams:
Duke: 46%
Florida: 39%
Houston: 26%
UT: 38.9%
Auburn: 50%
MSU: 28.1%
I don't think his teams play enough defense to win a title, plus his teams are streaky.
UConn i knew was close but i didn't guess them being over 40.
For the record, I don't think 40% is a bad benchmark you just cant be a one trick pony. If shots arent falling, you need something else. Oats doesn't have it. Until we got our doors blown off in the sec tournament, pope didn't have it.
Yes he can. Alabamas problem wasn’t threes. It was that Duke center erased everything at the rim and that they couldn’t get stops. Duke is just the better team
I’m just going from memory, but I’m pretty sure they trailed in the final seconds in their last three games in the tournament.
Isn’t Oats ‘ approach either 3s or layups? Problem against Duke is they weren’t getting many layups because Duke had too much athletic size inside. So that leaves - shoot a bunch of 3s.
Many times their guards got into the paint but saw that they couldn’t get all the way to the rim, so they turned and threw it back out:
114th
3rd
92nd
3rd
111th
26th
Those are the defensive efficiency numbers under Nate Oats in his tenure at Bama.
Talk about hot and cold. The years where it's good they can certainly win the title because it's usually combined with a top 25 offense.
But can his teams be consistently good on defense? No clue based on the above
They definitely were.
Not only did they take a bunch in 2018 but they made a bunch. 40% three point shooting team. Had four guys shooting higher than 40% from 3 and another guy right below at 39%.
The main thing is for the coach to play with a philosophy that fits the team.
I mean if you have a bunch of guys shooting 40% from 3...........you take a bunch of threes lol.
It's wild to be when you have a team that UK recently played in Illinois and they are 304th in 3 pt FG% and 14th in 2 pt FG% and yet are 29th in 3PA/FGA.
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
I mean if you have a bunch of guys shooting 40% from 3...........you take a bunch of threes lol.
It's wild to be when you have a team that UK recently played in Illinois and they are 304th in 3 pt FG% and 14th in 2 pt FG% and yet are 29th in 3PA/FGA.
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
They lost because they ran into Flagg, 9 out of 10 years there isnt a player that good so yes that philosophy can win with a team as good as Bama
Alabama's philosophy wasn't the problem. Duke is just really really good.
Alabama isn't 1 demensional. Duke is just really really good.
People in this thread seeing "You need to be able to adjust". Duke was just so much better than them last night. They tried taking the ball inside, Duke's size was too much.
Alabama isn't 1 demensional. Duke is just really really good.
People in this thread seeing "You need to be able to adjust". Duke was just so much better than them last night. They tried taking the ball inside, Duke's size was too much.
This. He's doing this at Bama. FF last year. EE this year. Oats is really good. He's recruiting well at Bama.
