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In conference play last season, Temple shot three’s at 33.0 percent, which is the equivalent of shooting two’s at almost 50 percent Temple shot two’s in conference play at just 43.6 percent on two’s. As one can readily see Temple would have been far better off shooting more three’s than 2’s.

Yet HC Mckie in defiance of the above empirical proof, said after a game, that Temple was not a three point shoot shooting team, and instead had Temple players take 66.4 percent of their shots as two’s, while taking only taking 33.6 percent of all fga’s as three’s. Temple should have shot way more three’s. What he should had said that Temple was the third best three-point shooting team in the conference and last place team at no.12 shooting two’s.

The year before under HC Fran Dunphy, when Temple finished with a stellar 13-5 conference record, Temple also finished third in the conference in three point shooting, but Dunphy wisely had Temple take 38 percent of it’s fga’s as three’s.

Why McKie would chose to have his worse two point shooters take the most two’s, and have his team shoot more two’s this past season over the prior season, when Temple was the worse in the conference shooting two’s, and when Temple again were among the top teams shooting tthree’s defies both an explanation and logic. As does McKie not having Perry, his best two and three point shooter not playing much, nor Scott play much who shot two’s at 54.7 percent.,

Even Rose and NPL took few three’s even though they shot three’s at 31 percent which was an equivalent rate of 46 percent on two’s, that far exceeded them shooting two’s as they did at close to 40 percent. With both percentages being below the team’s average shooting percentage it made no sense for tbith of them taking Temple’s most shots.

Temple would have been far better off playing Perry over Moorman because he shot three’s and two’s far better than Moorman, and in order to get more shots. For the same reason, Temple would have been better off having Alani Moore shoot way more three’s as he shot three’s at 42.9 percent in conference play.

But Mckie followed the misguided Temple playbook by favoring certain older players over transfers and making younger players wait their turn. The only exception was his favoring his recruit in Forrester over Hamilton. It’s my view that Hamilton was a better player as Temple win with Hamilton starting early in the season.,

Merit should be the only standard. Perry has patiently waited his turn and this year along with others will hopefully be one of the focal points of Temple’s offense as he shot high percentages on both two’s and three’s last season.