re: Ole Miss @ Alabama - ESPNU 6 CST

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Our 3 point shooting percentage is concerning. When you aren't making them, it is absolutely imperative to get second chance points, and nights like last night are going to happen on the offensive glass. It's certainly a skill, but like creating turnovers in football there are some variables that go into offensive rebounding. A team that wants to shoot 40+ 3's per game needs to be good at making them. We aren't right now. The Wrightsell loss seems like it is bigger than I anticipated it being.

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I agree.

3 point shooting has been my biggest concern from the beginning when it became clear that Grant was shooting worse and Jarin nor the freshmen Philon or Reid were going to shoot over 30%.

Not everyone can do what Ole Miss did defensively. They straight up directed us where to drive to and covered the passing options for those angles.

But, yeah, they did it by leaving space for the shooters aside from Sears and they best way to get them out of that was not shoot 28% from the arc.

We played sloppy and bad but a lot of it was trying to make the exact passes they were trying to coax us into trying!

Add that they "hard hatted" us to death on the boards and it was definitely ugly.

But, the weak link that set it all off was daring us to make even the college average % of shots from the perimeter.