Its All About the 3's!

[Chilmonty]

If you look at TN's team stats from last year vs this year, the only glaring difference is 3 point %. Going into the FL game we were a 30% team, last year almost 38%. Tonight the 3's fell and what happened, an easy win against a hated foe! Ky had a career 3 point night and what happened? Not discounting D and FT shooting, but basketball in this day and age (for better or worse) is about who gets hot from behind the stripe.

Since this is Volnation, you may now savage me without mercy!

[BigPapaVol]

Defense, TO differential and intensity were the difference. The 3s just let us change our offensive focus. Good shooting teams will shoot like 400% against UF.

[Blood Runs Orange]

Clearly it made the difference tonight. However, Florida gave us a ridiculous amount of completely WIDE-OPEN looks (kind of like we did for Jodie Meeks), and I don't expect teams in the future to offer us the same courtesy.

[Blood Runs Orange]

Originally Posted by BigPapaVol

Defense, TO differential and intensity were the difference. The 3s just let us change our offensive focus. Good shooting teams will shoot like 400% against UF.

So they will make 4 shots for every 1 attempt?

I though only Rod Wilks could do that.

[BigPapaVol]

Originally Posted by Blood Runs Orange

So they will make 4 shots for every 1 attempt?

I though only Rod Wilks could do that.

Wilks and good shooting teams playing UF. If they lean on Meeks like they should, Patterson might score 40 on them. They have no presence whatsoever in the paint.

[Tennessee Ted]

Even though we did shoot the threes well tonight I would like to see more penetration and more entry passes to Chism, Smith, Negedu, and Williams instead of hoisting up the first open three.

[Oldblood]

Originally Posted by BigPapaVol

Defense, TO differential and intensity were the difference. The 3s just let us change our offensive focus. Good shooting teams will shoot like 400% against UF.

We weren't even hitting the open threes until tonight so I'm still encouraged.
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[vol_freak]

Pearl talked about it in his post game show. Ed Wiener (sp?) worked with Tyler this week on his shot. Apparently he was not getting good rotation on the ball and his off hand was interfering with the shot. At least that's the way I understood it.

He also commented that he doesn't believe we have a team of bad shooters, but a team of good shooters that just haven't been shooting it well.

Whatever the case, something was different tonight.

[JAllen18]

Originally Posted by vol_freak

Pearl talked about it in his post game show. Ed Wiener (sp?) worked with Tyler this week on his shot. Apparently he was not getting good rotation on the ball and his off hand was interfering with the shot. At least that's the way I understood it.

He also commented that he doesn't believe we have a team of bad shooters, but a team of good shooters that just haven't been shooting it well.

Whatever the case, something was different tonight.

Hope we can keep it up.

[BigPapaVol]

Originally Posted by vol_freak

Pearl talked about it in his post game show. Ed Wiener (sp?) worked with Tyler this week on his shot. Apparently he was not getting good rotation on the ball and his off hand was interfering with the shot. At least that's the way I understood it.

He also commented that he doesn't believe we have a team of bad shooters, but a team of good shooters that just haven't been shooting it well.

Whatever the case, something was different tonight.

I agree that we have better shooters than our results suggest.
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[kiddiedoc]

Originally Posted by vol_freak

He also commented that he doesn't believe we have a team of bad shooters, but a team of good shooters that just haven't been shooting it well.

I heard that on the way home, too. However, one game is an "exception" until proven otherwise. I sure hope he's right, though!

Oh, and good to see you guys tonight. Calhoun's was actually an easier walk to the game that the Strip -- we should do that more often!

[Blood Runs Orange]

Originally Posted by vol_freak

Pearl talked about it in his post game show. Ed Wiener (sp?) worked with Tyler this week on his shot. Apparently he was not getting good rotation on the ball and his off hand was interfering with the shot. At least that's the way I understood it.

He also commented that he doesn't believe we have a team of bad shooters, but a team of good shooters that just haven't been shooting it well.

Whatever the case, something was different tonight.

I wouldn't totally discount the incredibly soft zone that Florida was playing. I don't know if we shot a single contested 3-pointer.

[vol_freak]

Originally Posted by kiddiedoc

I heard that on the way home, too. However, one game is an "exception" until proven otherwise. I sure hope he's right, though!

Oh, and good to see you guys tonight. Calhoun's was actually an easier walk to the game that the Strip -- we should do that more often!

Good to see you too kd. We should definitely do that again soon.

[Dustin4Vols]

i am worried about next year knowing tyler and wayne might go pro

[volgolferarch]

Tyler's shot did look a lot better tonight. He was getting more air on it with some more backspin. Of course not quite Scotty Hopson air, which a friend always says "it's like he's trying to lob a grenade over the castle wall..."