RE: Temple men’s bb 2019-2020
The AAC is a terrible three-point shooting conference as UCF shooting only 33.7 percent on three’s led the conference. The AA finished 30 out of 32 conference’s shooting three’s.
Temple finished third in the conference shooting three’s, but that went for naught as first year HC McKie did not design more plays for Alani Moore to shoot more three’s even though he was among the the conference leaders shooting three’s at 42.5 percent, and he didn’t play Dre Perry enough to allow him to shoot more often, even though he shot three’s at 41 percent for the season.
Hopefully, McKie will not make the same mistake this season. He must double Perry’s playing time 35 mpg and tell him to shoot at least every 2.5 minutes per game, not once every 4 minutes or so like he did last season. He’s also Temple’s best two-point shooter.
With transfer Brandon Barry shortly going to take over the PG reins, his being a 44 percent three point shooter, should put Temple in good stead shooting three’s. I have lots of confidence in Stricklandg shooting the three ball, but want to see him shoot few two’s, and get his turnover rate down.
The AAC is a defensive conference. it has very few consistently good shooters on one team.
Temple should have good shooters among it’s other new players. We’ll have to see who they are when the season starts. Do thing that Dunn and Quincy A are the best shooters among the freshman.
Battle is a big question mark, and although a good athlete, I question his total game.
Defense being as good as last year is an open question, but less so for me, as few teams have god shooters.
SMU does have the best shooting team. Will Temple be right there with them?
I’m confident Temple has the players it needs to win. Based on last season’s debacle, I have little confidence that McKie is a good coach, as any HC who has his worse shooters take Temple’s most shots doesn’t know what he’s doing. When a team beats USC, Wichita State, UConn, and SMU, and plays close with Houston, and Cincy, and losses to ECU and Tulane, both far worse teams, one knows that something is amiss. McKie was right when he said that he had a team that should have won more than it did in conference play. He just doesn’t realize he was the primary cause for Temple not doing so.
(This post was last modified: 11-29-2020 08:06 PM by Miggy.)
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