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(04-05-2018 09:13 AM)58-56 Wrote:  So this talk of house-cleaning and talent upgrade - based on anything, or simple brightsiding?

Nicky Norton never fully recovered from the injury, but he started for a reason. He has a degree and played four years (one of them for 31 seconds or whatever it was), so I don't begrudge him leaving. But would we not be better had he stayed?

Nate Darling played matador defense, runs like a 65-year-old man after a dose of Metamucil and has a weakness for trash talk (and just how does a Canadian trash talk anyway? "Yah dunkssss yah doughnut in the cahhhfee backwahdssss, eh?"). But he could shoot 3's (6 for 6!), was not afraid to attack the basket and could make weird layups.

So is there evidence that Ehsan is shaking things up, or is he reacting to the shaking?

See chart above. We can't defend the 3pt shot. We gave up 9 made 3's per game last year. Teams exploited our glaring weakness. I don't have the numbers but I would think that our conference shoots more than the average number of 3's in D1.

We were only behind Rice (9.2) and USM (9.1) in 3-pointers given up per game. Conversely, MTSU gave up the fewest per game at 6.1. Teams shot more 3-point attempts against us than any other team in our conference. We have to do something to fix this.

I have no insight into Ehsan or the roster changes. But if I were coaching and my seat was getting hot, I would find a way to fix this problem.