HowdyTexasAggies said:
Or not taking stupid ass 3-point shots early in the shot clock, when you are leading with 3 mins remaining. So dang frustrating.
I think we took one contested three that I didn't love, but if the shot is open, which most of them were, I don't see what the alternative is.
With Payne out of the game, we no longer have a low post threat, and at that point of the game it was obvious that nobody was a very good threat off the dribble. When you take away Payne's buckets, we were 10 of 31 inside the arc.
If the expected value of a shot inside the arc is only .65 points, I think you just have to take the first open shot you can get. Now obviously if you know ahead of time that you're going to miss the shot anyway then you just want to take all 30 seconds and commit a shot clock violation, but you don't know that. We missed our last five threes but we missed our last
seven twos.
Simple truth is that if Payne fouls out and Phelps isn't playing then we're basically last year's team, add in Manny being awful and then we're the bad version of last year's team without Boots.
When that's the case our highest value shot is basically whichever one Taylor can shoot.
