I looked back through tyndalls USM teams and last couple MSU teams, none of them gave up the 3 ball at a percentage like this Tennessee team does. If you're forcing teams to shoot 40%+ of their shots from 3 and they're only hitting 32-34%, that's a great strategy. If you do that same thing and teams are shooting 38-40% from 3 against you, some adjustments obviously need to be made. Let me be clear I'm not saying the defense doesn't work, absolutely it does and its a huge weapon, but much like Boeheim's patented defense, it does require some tweaks year to year and even game to game sometimes. I think the fact we don't have developed rim protectors is something Tyndall is having to compensate for, and the fact that Punter is still learning the defense, isn't known as a defender, as are the all the other guys...so a lot of the traps and rotations result in open 3's when if ran properly they may not. I think with the development of Carmichael, McGhee and Owens inside you'll see the defense extend a little further out next year, this year we largely will just have to take our chances with opponents getting quality looks from deep.
