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(01-22-2018 12:39 PM)ODUCoach Wrote:  To be fair, Randy IS a career 29% shooter from deep, and shooting 30% this year.

Yes, he had a good weekend in Florida, and we all WANT him to shoot 35% or better, but you can't ignore he did have a 5 game stretch this season where he was 6-33.

Now, I'll listen to a discussion about whether it's good for us because at least he's willing to shoot it, but statistics do mean something.

I have much less of a problem with Randy jacking up threes than I do with his taking 2 or 3 shots per game with his feet on the line. That is ALWAYS a bad shot.

Yes, but my contention all along was that we needed the threat of his knocking them down to bring teams out of those consistent zone/sagging man defenses we saw all year long. So I wanted him to pull up often. The objector said he shouldn't because he wasn't a shooter. In fact, he even said he shouldn't even be shooting at all, as if he wouldn't even help the team with the jumpers he made. And of course, the never-ending conversation has now morphed to his three point percentage.

To me, a comfortable jumper that swishes when Randy's foot (or feet) have breached the line is much better than what we have seeing at ODU in recent years. A comfortable two pointer without regard to inches below his feet is fine by me. My take is that if he were looking down at the last minute (ala Kemba) to stepback and then shoot it, Randy might not have the same comfort in his release. So I'm good with the two each time he is set.

But I will close with my biggest aggravation (and we've seen it from multiple players on the court for ODU and often at the same)...the player that gets the ball facing the basketball from 16-18 feet and the defender stays in the paint because the player is NO threat to score. So glad those days are over, well mostly over. We still have one on the court getting quite a few minutes and I'll give him a pass because he doesn't get it out there as much as these two or three players in the past did. It really pointed out an offensive liability and angered me (off the boards of course).