[lex24]

True. But EWU also shot well above average from behind the arc. When you don’t close out on the perimeter and teams get uncontested threes they are going to outperform their average.

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It's hard to see the Florida game as a fluke when Eastern Washington and UNC basically did the same thing.  We're giving up 42% on 3-pointer this season. 

EW was 11-25 (44%) and NC 11-26 (42%), while Florida was 15-22 (68%).

Nobody is denying that the team as currently constituted is overmatched, but Florida's 3-point blitz (13-18, 72% in the first half when they put the game out of reach) is an outlier. Nationally teams hit about 35-36%, so 40% (excluding the Florida game) is high, but 72% on 18 shots is not just loose perimeter defense.
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[lex24]

True. But EWU also shot well above average from behind the arc. When you don’t close out on the perimeter and teams get uncontested threes they are going to outperform their average.

[quote author=burger link=topic=18134.msg214442#msg214442 date=1511548905]

It's hard to see the Florida game as a fluke when Eastern Washington and UNC basically did the same thing.  We're giving up 42% on 3-pointer this season. 

EW was 11-25 (44%) and NC 11-26 (42%), while Florida was 15-22 (68%).

Nobody is denying that the team as currently constituted is overmatched, but Florida's 3-point blitz (13-18, 72% in the first half when they put the game out of reach) is an outlier. Nationally teams hit about 35-36%, so 40% (excluding the Florida game) is high, but 72% on 18 shots is not just loose perimeter defense.
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