…3 pointers Brea and Jaxon only made 2 combined. So for people saying if Duke had only hit more 3s….chew on that fact
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This is a great point.
Also, lost in all the hoopla was the fact that Kentucky really beat their asses in the second half.
And did it with defense. That’s the best part to me, especially after last season was such an utter embarrassment on that side of the ball.
Going forward Pope has to be thinking about running more motion and screens to get more open looks for our shooters. At times our offense became stagnant and that’s when we started falling behind. Duke really guarded the three point line well and other teams will try to do the same.
I’d really like to see him work on some zone defense just for Arkansas because we all know Cal teams suck against it.
Great win!!
I’d really like to see him work on some zone defense just for Arkansas because we all know Cal teams suck against it.
Great win!!
Robinson played as well as you can hope someone who is off can play in my book. Continued to try to contribute and be an asset the entire time even when it wasn’t working for him.
Brea has really impressed me. More than a shooter. Maybe not great at all aspects but he works hard and really seems to want to do whatever the team needs.
Brea has really impressed me. More than a shooter. Maybe not great at all aspects but he works hard and really seems to want to do whatever the team needs.
I love that they made the necessary adjustments in the second half. I’m pretty certain that we would have lost that game last night with the old coaching staff. IMO
That is a very good point, but we hit 40% as a team 10-25. Might be unrealistic to shoot much better than that every night.
Still, though, I understand your point and it makes you think what can be possible. GO CATS !!
Three-point shooting percentages, so far, after three (3) games:
| 20-21 | 21-22 | 22-23 | 23-24 | 24-25 | |
| BREA | 0.355 | 0.423 | 0.370 | 0.498 | 0.750 |
| CARR | 0.286 | 0.405 | 0.311 | 0.371 | 0.600 |
| OWEH | DNP | DNP | 0.250 | 0.377 | 0.500 |
| ALMONOR | DNP | 0.343 | 0.381 | 0.394 | 0.364 |
| CHANDLER | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | 0.333 |
| KRIISA | 0.368 | 0.336 | 0.366 | 0.424 | 0.286 |
| ROBINSON | 0.286 | 0.326 | 0.343 | 0.354 | 0.250 |
| BUTLER | 0.290 | 0.329 | 0.342 | 0.302 | 0.167 |
| WILLIAMS | 0.00 | 0.500 | 0.267 | 0.333 | 0.000 |
| GARRISON | DNP | DNP | DNP | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| NOAH | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | 0.000 |
| PERRY | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | 0.000 |
Good observations !! We will definitely need more movement and screens against the better teams, because we only appear to have two (2) players who can consistently get to the basket against strong defensive pressure off the dribble: Butler and Oweh. We'll have to get the easy buckets off of cuts and great passing. We can certainly do that, I think.
We had a huge advantage on 3's and bench points.
Truly: Duke played Calipari basketball. They made mostly 2's. Flagg made 3 mistakes back to back to back.
Kind of awesome for us to be on the other side for once.
Truly: Duke played Calipari basketball. They made mostly 2's. Flagg made 3 mistakes back to back to back.
Kind of awesome for us to be on the other side for once.
Duke can get better. But Kentucky can get better as well. We are just better. Also, Pope is a real head coach who wasn't handed the job. He had to earn it.
While I get what you are saying, I watched some of the Kansas/Michigan State game and neither team played half as much defense as Duke did last night. Most teams will not be able to defend us like Duke did. Also, all that energy they expended playing such tight defense was part of the reason they were exhausted at the end of the game.
Agreed. Duke is the most athletic team we'll probably face this year. Other teams extending their defense that far will end up getting beat with our passing a lot more, Duke could recover better. And they still got gassed.
I get what you’re saying also, but when you have guys who struggle to create their own shot you have to rely on other ways to get them open looks. This is what Cal struggled with the last several years when he wasn’t getting the top tier talent. Also if we are wanting to wear teams down motion and fighting through screens makes that happen quicker, especially with our deep bench.
thanks mega blue for 3 point stats. After three games our exceptional 3 point shooters are Brea, Carr, Oweh.
Alemnor is good and everyone else grades out poor.
At around 28% Kirisa should not be clanging three's every half open shot op he has.
Alemnor is good and everyone else grades out poor.
At around 28% Kirisa should not be clanging three's every half open shot op he has.
It's awesome to actually have a coach to make halftime adjustments.....
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