Koby doing the mamba mentality

[loid walden]

Refs are refs, almost every game complaints.  Each team had some bad ones.

X was 11 for 25 at free throw line.  Ballgame. 

Good win for players, the looks on their faces at end of regulation was one of despair.

[loid walden]

 clearly I don't what i'm doing or how to post but I wanted to agree totally with NYG
post and semi-analysis. particularly the 11 for 25 comment.

[CountryRoads]

Had to look it up but Goodin's performance was yet another outlier against MU.

In our 4 games against him at Xavier, he is 9/13 from 3.

Take out those games and he is 86/314 for only 27%. It was annoying how he kept hitting those threes.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Had to look it up but Goodin's performance was yet another outlier against MU.

In our 4 games against him at Xavier, he is 9/13 from 3.

Take out those games and he is 86/314 for only 27%. It was annoying how he kept hitting those threes.

There's a reason for it. Wojo's defense purposefully leave poor shooters open to help protect the paint. Sometimes that means bad shooters have good shooting games.

[brewcity77]

And who the hell was that Carter guy for Xavier?  Made Jayce Johnson look like Dirk.

He came into the night shooting 82.9% from the free throw line, then went 0/4 against us. When he bricked those two on the technical, my wife asked "why on earth is he shooting free throws?" only to be more baffled when I cited his near 83% accuracy from the stripe.

[MikeDeanesDarkGlasses]

There's a reason for it. Wojo's defense purposefully leave poor shooters open to help protect the paint. Sometimes that means bad shooters have good shooting games.

Great Coaching There.....

[Vander Blue Man Group]

Great Coaching There.....

How'd that work at home? 

I think you need a new prescription.

[Mr. Nielsen]

He came into the night shooting 82.9% from the free throw line, then went 0/4 against us. When he bricked those two on the technical, my wife asked "why on earth is he shooting free throws?" only to be more baffled when I cited his near 83% accuracy from the stripe.

I love when you give numbers! 

[DoctorV]

He came into the night shooting 82.9% from the free throw line, then went 0/4 against us. When he bricked those two on the technical, my wife asked "why on earth is he shooting free throws?" only to be more baffled when I cited his near 83% accuracy from the stripe.

Sometimes statistics don't quite tell the whole story. My immediate thought when I saw that guy go up to the line was "who the fook is dis guy?!?"

I had a feeling there is no way that guy has shot a lot of free throws when they mentioned 83% from the line. Throw in the pressure of the situation and I think it was a very bad couching decision by Steele.

I looked it up and he shot 7ft in 7 BE games before last night, going 5/7. He shot 68%, 83%, 72% last three years all on very low volume. Those freebies were real baaaad

[MU82]

Great Coaching There.....

Two weeks earlier at Fiserv, he was 0-for-8 overall, 0-for-3 from 3, and we won by 300 points.

That idiot McDermott left him open and he went 0-for-6 from 3.

That moron Anderson left him open and he went 0-for-6 from 3.

That dope Wright left him open and he missed his only 3.

That lamebrain Jamie Dixon left him open and he went 0-for-2 from 3.

That loser Willard left him open and he went 0-for-2 from 3.

He had missed his previous 20 attempts from 3 and then had to sit out 2 weeks with a knee injury, but the smart strategy would have been to crowd him out at the 3-point line.

Have you ever watched a basketball game?

[WhoaJoe2020]

Great Coaching There.....

Yes it was.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Great Coaching There.....

It is a tried and true strategy used by many coaches. I believe you were screaming for a double team on Baldwin in the butler game. I hope you realize that if Wojo had done that,  that means a shooter would have been left open.

[brewcity77]

Sometimes statistics don't quite tell the whole story. My immediate thought when I saw that guy go up to the line was "who the fook is dis guy?!?"

I had a feeling there is no way that guy has shot a lot of free throws when they mentioned 83% from the line. Throw in the pressure of the situation and I think it was a very bad couching decision by Steele.

I looked it up and he shot 7ft in 7 BE games before last night, going 5/7. He shot 68%, 83%, 72% last three years all on very low volume. Those freebies were real baaaad

Carter is a starter who was shooting 10 percentage points higher than any other starter. Who else would you send? Marshall or Goodin who had multiple misses in the game? Sometimes the guy who's you expect to make free throws just doesn't make them. And no one else on Xavier is (or was that night) scorching the nets from the line in Big East play.

[MU82]

It is a tried and true strategy used by many coaches. I believe you were screaming for a double team on Baldwin in the butler game. I hope you realize that if Wojo had done that,  that means a shooter would have been left open.

He knows. And he would have been screaming if the open shooter had hit a couple of 3s. No matter the outcome of the game, no matter the situation on the court, if it's Wojo it's bad. What a fun way to go through life.