palestra38
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11-20-17 10:23 AM - Post#236977
In response to mrjames
OK, whenever we start talking "luck", my eyes glaze over. We are playing much better defense on the 3s because Woods and Foreman get out much quicker and more effectively than our guard combos last year, plus they know that they have their backs covered by the 2 bigs inside. Howard was a "tweener" in that he covered a big guard or small forward--very good defensive player especially on the drive. But these 2 guys get out on the 3 much better. While it is an extremely small sample, so far, Penn's Div 1 opponents have shot the 3 at a 23.5% clip (Fairfield, with fewer Foreman/Woods minutes), 15% (LaSalle) and 11% (Navy) while shooting at a 36%/26%/40% clip against their other (usually higher powered) opponents. You can't attribute this to "luck" although you can say it's too small a sample to make definitive conclusions. But the eye test confirms that these numbers are correlated with much tighter man defense on the 3 point shooters.
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