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What's wrong with Brea?

What’s his shooting percentage at home vs. away/neutral?

Seems like he shoots better at Rupp this season, but I don’t know for sure.
 
Probably a bit of a confidence thing and forcing some shots he’s not comfortable shooting. He’s more of a spot up or off the screen shooter. Right now his shots are being self created and I don’t think that’s his comfort zone.
If he'd set screens, he'd get some easy looks.
 
He'll be OK. Didn't play all that much in last game or this one. Something is going on like illness or nagging injury for him. I think he will be back to normal next week.
 
Its not helping that other teams are really focusing on shutting him down.
If you've got someone in your face, then put a teammate between the two of you. That also requires his teammates to recognize the situation. It's a tough thing. On one hand, from OUR (the fans) perspective it's a beautiful thing to witness with constant ball motion that results in a score, but from their perspective it puts more pressure on the shooter because there's often much less time on the clock, and that "ROI" is always in the back of their minds. "we're really moving the ball well, but not getting anything from it".
 
Its not helping that other teams are really focusing on shutting him down.

It did help Jaxson Robinson get WIDE open for one of his early 3s, though. Jaxson faked a pass to the corner to Brea, and the MSU bit HARD on the pass b/c he knew the scouting report. Robinson then had all day to gather and stroke it.
 
He was questionable last game and this game he didn’t seem great. If he had what my family has been passing around the last month I’m not surprised he didn’t shoot well. There were days I didn’t even wanna get out of bed.
 
After hitting 7 against Florida teams are keying on him heavily, it’s partly responsible for Robinson and others being able to go off tonight. Robinsons performance proves you can’t key on stopping one guy, we have several that can burn you on any given night.
 
Wild guess but it seems Brea feeds off the Rupp / fan energy. Not sure of home / away stats but from memory, he shoots better at Rupp. We shall see Tuesday!
 
Last game he shot 2/9 from three point range and 1/5 tonight. These two games have crushed his season 3 point percentage.
He's down to 48% now.








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This a serious question?? It’s a law of averages. Great shooters have great shooting games. Great shooters have poor shooting games. And yes sometimes multiple in a row.
 
I think he's just frustrated at how hard teams are guarding him. He's not the most athletic guy and he's not able to run off screens or floppy action type stuff and get easy looks. So he's forcing some shots, likely because Pope is telling him to get more shots up. I was surprised we didn't see more Jax and Koby on the court together once Jax got hot. At that point Jax was drawing all the coverage which woulda either given Brea some open looks or pull the double off of Jaxon.

Either way, we made 16 3s and Brea only made 1, that bodes well.
 
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