Jojogunne wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 1:28 pm
We are taking WAY too many low-percentage shots. Live by the three, die by the three. We are dying.
However, this is not a sudden thing. This was very early on in OOC play and they continued have to take the same approach overall, now four games into conference play.
Maybe, yesterday was finally an adjustment though for Thomas and Dubar. After Thomas took 15 3s in each of the first three CAA games, he went 3/8 from 3 and 10/22 overall. He's still mostly allergic to seeing the FT line (no FTA against yesterday), but that shot distribution and even shot making from 2 and 3 is okay (not great, but fine). Dubar yesterday, was also 2/3 from 3 and 8/14 overall. Would still like to see more shots from him and fewer from Thomas, since like yesterday, and as I've been saying all season, Dubar is considerably more efficient. I don't know how many times it has to be said, but yet AGAIN yesterday - Thomas: 23 pts on 22 shots, Dubar, almost the same (21 pts) on 14 shots. Shift a few of those to Dubar, maybe even just one of those, in a one-point loss and they likely win. But, bottom line, Dubar and Thomas were both a lot less reliant on the 3 yesterday, so maybe we'll see more of that going foward. And Carlos frankly shouldn't be shooting unless he's wide open every time. His first thought should always to do what he does best and distribute.
Jojogunne wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 1:28 pm
That said, we only lost our last two games by four points. A better shot here or there, and we would be in third place at 3-1, rather than next-to-last at 1-3.
Somewhat reasonable to take this positive view of it but the reality is that those two losses by four points were against two teams that had Hofstra played a full 40 minutes the way they played in rallying from big deficits in each of those games, they would have -- and probably
should have -- won both of those by double digits. So, if they're doing that in the "easier" games, what happens if they do the same in the tougher ones (and there are a lot of those ahead)? Will they even be competitive in those rather than have chances to win late (like at Northeastern and Campbell) if they continue to dig big early holes?