This is so absurdly silly to me. There's a lot of things you can't change in sports.. but we have complete control over how we do shoot arounds. This could be changed without a whole lot of effort.
Having your team get shots up for an hour in one gym, and then expect them to shoot well in a different gym, with a different back drop, just isn't a good idea.
Until this changes, you can expect opposing teams to continue to get into a rhythm before we do. No wonder they go 3/4 from deep to open games, while we clank 3s.
I totally agree.
To give a little context to this- this is how Cal had to do shootarounds at Memphis, because the FedEx forum is about 25 minutes from campus. So he had the same issue with carting the players around town before a game, so they had to do them all on campus and then load up for the Fedex Forum later in the day.
This was also how they did shootarounds when he was the Nets coach, because most players lived closer to the practice gym than the arena in New Jersey.
So this is 25 years of Cal doing shootarounds in the practice gym,
I disagree with this and think we should do every shoot around in Rupp.
BUT- my bigger, MUCH MUCH BIGGER complaint is that we never practice in Rupp. We practice every single day in Joe Craft, never at Rupp.
This is VERY out of the ordinary- most teams practice in the practice gym before road games, and practice in their arena leading up to home games.
We do not do this- and to me, THAT is a much bigger deal.
We could have spent 2 hours/day in Rupp, 6 days per week, this past month prepping for home games.
That is hours upon hours upon hours our guys could spend becoming even better with that backdrop and that environment.
That is way more valuable than a 45 min shoot around in my mind, and it's a big problem that we don't practice in Rupp, ever.
