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[SpokaneCY]

AND and, 26% of all our shot attempts were 3s. I would go through the rest of the stats in the B12 site, but really I don't have the energy to. I'd be willing to be that we were NOT in the top tier as far as percentage of shots that were 3s.

 

[cloneu]

Ask your wife, she should know. :wink:

That's just not nice. But sometimes the truth hurts.:biglaugh:

 

[BryceC]

AND we took 607 3s which was 6th in the conference in attempts while Baylor led the league with 699 attempts. Again - not the "live and die by the 3" strategy you claim.

Ken Pomeroy tracks a state for 3PA/FGA, to show how many three pointers as opposed to other shots a team shoots.

ISU is 3rd in the Big 12 in 3PA/FGA, behind OSU and BU. I think that's pretty dang close to living and dying by the 3, especially considering we had the worst 3 point shooting percentage in the conference.

AND and, 26% of all our shot attempts were 3s. I would go through the rest of the stats in the B12 site, but really I don't have the energy to. I'd be willing to be that we were NOT in the top tier as far as percentage of shots that were 3s.

We are.

 

[cloneu]

Honestly, at this point, moving the line shouldnt impact them too much actually shooting the ball. Heck most of them probably practice shooting far out shots alot anyway. It would be more to the fact of remember where your foot is in regards to the line. Players keep getting stronger and stronger, eventually the line will have to be moved to half court. =)

Maybe they should already move it back for people who do this.

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[Aaron Jacobs]

I don't think we are so much live and die by the three as we only have two shots on the court. Feed it into the low post to Brackins or Jiri, or swing it around the perimeter until we have an open look.

 

[SpokaneCY]

Ken Pomeroy tracks a state for 3PA/FGA, to show how many three pointers as opposed to other shots a team shoots.

ISU is 3rd in the Big 12 in 3PA/FGA, behind OSU and BU. I think that's pretty dang close to living and dying by the 3, especially considering we had the worst 3 point shooting percentage in the conference.



We are.

So I ran the stats and we're 3rd in the B12 at 26% followed by CU (26%) UT (25%) OU (25%) KSU (24%) NU (24%) and MU (24%). So we're within 1 or 2 percentage points of a majority of the teams. Again - sure doesn't look like we live and die by the 3.

 

[ce1]

I doubt it will discourage us from shooting that much since McD's offense is to live and die by the three. Why else do you think we chucked so many up this year?

Because we were behind a lot?

 

[BryceC]

True. Since we do shoot the worst percentage in the Big 12 we do seem to be dying by it a lot more than living by it.

 

[clones_jer]

Because we were behind a lot?

there's probably a lot of truth to that ... :sad:

we'd have to subtract the 20-40 "desperation-time" 3 pointers taken in the conferance losses

 

[CloneAggie]

Here are the stats...

Team................ FGA.... 3FGA... 3FGA/FGA
Oklahoma State...... 1672... 652.... 0.389952153
Baylor.............. 1910... 699.... 0.365968586
Iowa State.......... 1733... 607.... 0.350259665
Colorado............ 1535... 529.... 0.344625407
Texas............... 1874... 633.... 0.337780149
Oklahoma............ 1672... 554.... 0.331339713
Kansas State........ 1896... 615.... 0.324367089
Missouri............ 2011... 641.... 0.318746892
Nebraska............ 1572... 489.... 0.311068702
Texas A&M........... 1748... 522.... 0.298627002
Kansas.............. 1841... 535.... 0.290602933
Texas Tech.......... 1623... 428.... 0.263709181

 

[SpokaneCY]

But it also looks like like we get more points per shot attempt from the 3 ball than the 2. We averaged .94 points per 3pt attempt while only .83 points per 2pt attempt. Obviously we needed to take MORE 3s!

Joking - but really we are NOT a 3-chucking team - at least the numbers don't seem to suggest that.

 

[ISUFan22]

The behind a lot thing is very true.

Most of the time, the second we got into a slump, got behind by more than 8 points, etc - we went out of our offense and into 3-point mode. I wasn't against this 100% of the time, but notably last night - we had no business continuing to crank 'em up when A&M was depleted inside via illness and foul trouble.

 

[clones_jer]

Mizzou had over 2000 FGA? How did they suck with that many shot attempts? and how did they shoot a better percentage than us, taking 400 more shots and only getting 1 more win?

 

[CloneAggie]

It is worse in Big12 only play...

Team................ FGA.... 3FGA... 3FGA/FGA
Oklahoma State...... 818.... 333.... 0.407090465
Iowa State.......... 874.... 325.... 0.371853547
Texas............... 977.... 348.... 0.356192426
Baylor.............. 1002... 352.... 0.351297405
Oklahoma............ 850.... 283.... 0.332941176
Kansas State........ 989.... 328.... 0.331648129
Colorado............ 761.... 252.... 0.331143233
Nebraska............ 842.... 273.... 0.324228029
Texas A&M........... 862.... 264.... 0.306264501
Missouri............ 993.... 297.... 0.299093656
Kansas.............. 933.... 248.... 0.265809218
Texas Tech.......... 861.... 225.... 0.261324042

 

[SeattleClone]

Hopefully everyone's right that it won't hurt us too bad, it does seem like most 3's are shot from well behind the line anyways.

Mostly I'm just glad to have started a conversation with no bickering! As long as you don't count that (hilarious) cheap shot bostinelosd took at clones_jer. Jer, you set yourself up for that one! :smile:

 

[hoocher]

wow...sure sounds like this Lucca guy will be the man next year. How many college games has he played?

 

[clones_jer]

Oh, I missed that dis until you brought it up ... Bos, its ON now!

 

[bos]

How far back does Petersen usually shoot from. I think alot of them are a good distance from the line.

 

[scottie33]

you would think they'd just match it up with the international line ... what's 3 inches?

A lot of hawkeyes :biglaugh:

 

[chadm]

wow...sure sounds like this Lucca guy will be the man next year. How many college games has he played?

He does have the potential. Practice is different from games, but he is impressive.