"These days there’s such an emphasis on the three because it’s proven to be analytically correct. Now you look at a stat sheet after a game and the first thing you look at is the threes. If you made threes and the other team didn’t, you win. You don’t even look at the rebounds or the turnovers or how much transition D was involved. You don’t even care. That’s how much an impact the three-point shot has and it’s evidenced by how everybody plays.” – Gregg Popovich
Everything in moderation, guys. The bottom line is we're the best three-point shooting team in the conference by a wide margin. We shoot more. We make more. And it's not as though we aren't still attacking the rim, but I'll take a (wide) open three over a contested two most of the time. Just look at the numbers – 45th in the country in 3%, 262nd in 2%. You tell me where we have the edge on everyone else.
Yes, there will be nights when they don't go down, some individual attempts that you'd take back, but it's the way the game's going and we have the personnel to use it to our advantage. I pray that, when everything's on the line, we're on. And looking way down the line, cart completely in front of the horse, if we have ANY hope of winning a tournament game against a more athletic, more physical high-major team, we better be ready to shoot it!