Painful.

Milt Epstein wrote:
> Charlie Board <charNOTlieORTHISboard.RemoveThis@nc.rr.com> writes:
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>>larrytxeast@gmail.com wrote:
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>>>Simply enough, I could not believe all the 3s Carolina was hoisting
>>>up all of a sudden. Why in the WORLD would they do such a thing?
>>>They had Tyler Hansbrough and Brandan Wright to throw to, and heck
>>>Deon Thomspon as well while we're at it. All 3 had been killing
>>>Georgetown, scoring and drawing fouls as well. why fire all those
>>>3s in that situation? It's called force-feed that puppy to Number
>>>50 and get the freak out of the way.
>>
>>Just to bring a little perspective to that argument:
>> FIRST 6:40 OF GAME: UNC attempted zero 3's, outscored by GT
>> NEXT 26:50 : UNC attemts *11* 3's, blows out GT
>> LAST 6:31 (REG) : UNC attempts 5 3's, gets blown out
>> (all according to ESPN play-by-plays)
>>
>>I don't see a pattern of success/failure wrt to how many 3's UNC was
>>trying. The problem wasn't taking too many....it was missing them
>>all.
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> That's something, but it's a little bit coarse. Were those threes in
> the flow of the offense, and how much did they try to work the ball
> in, maybe doing a little bit of an inside/outside game. My impression
> of their late game offense is that they rarely tried to get the ball
> inside at all and that the shots were somewhat rushed.


True. But then my impression every time I saw them this year was
that they had a very mediocre half-court offense - one of the
best running games and delayed-break offenses in the league but
really, really mediocre in the halfcourt. Is it really all
that big a surprise that they couldn't execute in the half
court when trying to eat clock in the biggest pressure
situation all year? I didn't think so. Most of the shots they
took were pretty good ones given the great defense Georgetown
was playing. They just missed em.