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Gators work on 3-point shooting Article by Chriss Harry

Discussion in 'Nuttin but Net' started by potomacgator, Oct 7, 2022.

  1. potomacgator

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    Here is the link:

    Aiming to be Straight Shooters - Florida Gators

    The article reviews the Gators' poor 3-point shooting last season, coach Golden's program to improve the team's shooting, and the team's new up-tempo offensive style.
     
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  2. iam4uf

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    Four of White's seven seasons are on that list...

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  3. ETGator

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    Wow . . . not only the worst ever for the Gators last year but almost half of of the worst all time 3-point shooting ever (40%) was under one former coach.
     
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    Coach Dovovan was the consummate gym rat and once mentioned it was on the players to put the time in shooting on their own.
     
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  5. GatorPlanet

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    Yep.
    But to be fair, it must be pointed out that Billy left Mike with a team full of poor shooters. This was unusual because Billy made good shooting, shot selection, and plays designed to free up those good shooters, the central focus of his high-ball-screen offense. However, the lack of inherited shooters excuse is only good for two years at the most. After that, you need to have replenished the stocks. We just went out and recruited more bad shooters. Or got good shooters and plugged them into an offense that didn't reward them with open looks.
     
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    Of the 9 NCAA opportunities, our bad 3pt shooting teams made the Tournament only 3 out of 9 times, 33% of the time. Our NCAA record was 1-3.

    Excluding these 9 teams & the year with no tourney, from the time we made our first Tourney appearance in 1987 we had 25 attempts, making the Tourney 19 times or 76%. Our NCAA record with better shooting was 47-17, 73%.
     
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    Donovan's last team shot 32.3% from 3pt range, ranked #263 (https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/florida/2015.html). White's first year it was 31.9%, ranked #295.
     
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    Dean Smith said that the most important stat in basketball--apart from points, of course--was shooting percentage.