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Someone show me a team with great offensive flow that shoots 32.6% (good for 298th in the country) from 3 on mostly open attempts. I'll wait.

Why do y'all think the offensive flow looks great at times and terrible other times? It's because we shoot well from beyond the arc in those games where we look like a well-oiled machine. In games where we shot 40+% from three we averaged 81.5 PPG. Offensive flow is all about spacing. You can't have good spacing unless you shoot a respectable percentage from beyond the arc. You can blame Avery for not getting shooters in place to have good offensive flow, but the offense hasn't looked bad when we hit open shots.

yes, it has ... hitting open shots doesn't mean you have an offense ... petty puts up some bad shots ... when he makes several of them a few times a year, everyone says "great job!" ... we have length and athleticism more than we have shooters, which is fine, but there's not enough flow/movement to get 10 ft shots ... it's usually either sexton penetrating, hall with a put back, or a 3 pt launched, usually as the clock winds down ... i'm not looking for the golden st warriors, but if butler can do it with 3* talent, so can alabama ...

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Posted by BigBird09

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Posted on 3/22/18 at 8:17 am to tiderider

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yes, it has ... hitting open shots doesn't mean you have an offense ... petty puts up some bad shots ... when he makes several of them a few times a year, everyone says "great job!" ... we have length and athleticism more than we have shooters, which is fine, but there's not enough flow/movement to get 10 ft shots ... it's usually either sexton penetrating, hall with a put back, or a 3 pt launched, usually as the clock winds down ... i'm not looking for the golden st warriors, but if butler can do it with 3* talent, so can alabama ...

Are you really arguing that hitting open shots isn't crucial to an offense? That's just silly. Not sure what your point is on Petty, he missed way more of his open shots than his contested shots. His contested shots were typically heat checks after he made an open 3.

Any decent defense can prevent a team from getting "10 ft shots" if they don't have to defend the 3pt line. Not sure 10 ft shots are the focus of any offense, but still applies. Once again, our offense looked good when we force the defense to respect the 3.

Still waiting on someone to give me an offense with regular good flow and a terrible 3pt%...

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