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BillOfRights said:
Davis shot 39.8% 3FG% last season, which was ranked 201 among qualifiers. That doesn't seem "ridiculous".
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How many in the top 200 shot almost 8 threes a game as the team’s primary scoring option?

Genuinely curious, as I think it provides a lot of context to just how good he was last season

Catch and shoot / wide open 3s had to be in the 50s. Probably the biggest difference from last year
 
BillOfRights said:
Jackson is electric, but the UCLA game was only the 2nd game this season that Carolina scored more points than they allowed with Jackson on the floor. His defense will need to continue to improve.
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I watch him on defense and it’s not good. But it will get better

Not like anyone besides Seth is doing much on that end

Maybe they need to try more of the 4 guard line up
 
UNCRx85 said:
Look, man, if Duke, Kansas, or Kentucky had 5 losses before Christmas, it’d be described as a dumpster fire. Comes with the blue blood territory. It’s also the worst record and defensive #’s at this point in a season since 8-20.

It’s a little less a dumpster fire after yesterday. But they easily could have lost that game. Credit to them for fighting back (again), but I think it’s just that things happened to work out for them this time. I don’t see where anything was a cathartic breakthrough or anything.

Try to rattle off several in a row, find some confidence, figure out how to play with 4 guards, and see where we are in a month.
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You have a low bar for “dumpster fire”.

The season isn’t a catastrophe (top 30ish), it’s just been disappointing.
 
Disappointing, dumpster fire, catastrophe, it’s all just semantics at this point. The reality is that we have a talented, capable, but ultimately flawed team with a lot of season in front of it but not much room for error.

Yesterday was one of the most encouraging and relieving wins I’ve seen in a long time. An L there and we would have probably needed to win the ACCT to make the tournament. We still only have a small handful of slip ups left and need to at minimum split against Dook to make the tournament, but I feel much better about those prospects now than I did before the game yesterday.
 
Peppers49 said:
Disappointing, dumpster fire, catastrophe, it’s all just semantics at this point. The reality is that we have a talented, capable, but ultimately flawed team with a lot of season in front of it but not much room for error.

Yesterday was one of the most encouraging and relieving wins I’ve seen in a long time. An L there and we would have probably needed to win the ACCT to make the tournament. We still only have a small handful of slip ups left and need to at minimum split against Dook to make the tournament, but I feel much better about those prospects now than I did before the game yesterday.
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Enjoy the ride.
 
Heelsandeers said:
How many in the top 200 shot almost 8 threes a game as the team’s primary scoring option?

Genuinely curious, as I think it provides a lot of context to just how good he was last season

Catch and shoot / wide open 3s had to be in the 50s. Probably the biggest difference from last year
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NCAA Basketball Player Stats - Three Point Field Goal Percentage

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Reed Sheppard, UK 52.1%
Will Tshetter, Mich 51.9%
Kerwin Walton, Tx Tech 47.8%
Cade Tyson, Belmont 46.5%
Etc

RJ Davis wasn't "ridiculous" last season from 3, but he has been so far this season.
 
BillOfRights said:

NCAA Basketball Player Stats - Three Point Field Goal Percentage

Free college basketball player stats and splits in simple, easy to read tables. This page tracks three point field goal percentage statistics.
www.teamrankings.com www.teamrankings.com
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Reed Sheppard, UK 52.1%
Will Tshetter, Mich 51.9%
Kerwin Walton, Tx Tech 47.8%
Cade Tyson, Belmont 46.5%
Etc

RJ Davis wasn't "ridiculous" last season from 3, but he has been so far this season.

As donbosco pointed out above, when Davis' shots are removed, the rest of the team has a better 3FG% this season than last season. Davis is struggling. Rather than lazily blaming "coaching", maybe we should look at actual player performance. I'm not blaming RJ Davis, I'm not criticizing him as a player, I'm glad he's a Tar Heel and I want him taking the shots, but I want last season's Davis. Something ain't right with him, and for him, the team, and all of us, I hope he gets it figured out.
 
Heelsandeers said:
I watch him on defense and it’s not good. But it will get better

Not like anyone besides Seth is doing much on that end

Maybe they need to try more of the 4 guard line up
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It's more than just Trimble. Powell has been surprisingly good defensively, and Withers, for all his inconsistency, has been good defensively.

I'm excited to see Jackson become a better defender.
 
UNCRx85 said:
Look, man, if Duke, Kansas, or Kentucky had 5 losses before Christmas, it’d be described as a dumpster fire. Comes with the blue blood territory. It’s also the worst record and defensive #’s at this point in a season since 8-20.

It’s a little less a dumpster fire after yesterday. But they easily could have lost that game. Credit to them for fighting back (again), but I think it’s just that things happened to work out for them this time. I don’t see where anything was a cathartic breakthrough or anything.

Try to rattle off several in a row, find some confidence, figure out how to play with 4 guards, and see where we are in a month.
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If Carolina lost to Elon, that would be a dumpster fire. All 5 losses are in quad 1, along with 2 q1 wins. This team is a lot closer to 10-2 with 5 q1 wins than to "dumpster fire".
 
BillOfRights said:
Reed Sheppard, UK 52.1%
Will Tshetter, Mich 51.9%
Kerwin Walton, Tx Tech 47.8%
Cade Tyson, Belmont 46.5%
Etc

RJ Davis wasn't "ridiculous" last season from 3, but he has been so far this season.

As donbosco pointed out above, when Davis' shots are removed, the rest of the team has a better 3FG% this season than last season. Davis is struggling. Rather than lazily blaming "coaching", maybe we should look at actual player performance. I'm not blaming RJ Davis, I'm not criticizing him as a player, I'm glad he's a Tar Heel and I want him taking the shots, but I want last season's Davis. Something ain't right with him, and for him, the team, and all of us, I hope he gets it figured out.
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Crazy that top 4 contains one current Tar Heel and one former Tar Heel.
 
For all of the hand wringing our fans are doing, there is still a path for us to get back on track. We really need an extended winning streak in January though. It would be unreasonable to expect the team to go undefeated in conference play, but prolonging the losses for as long as possible is the key. A slip up early in conference play like @ Louisville for example would immediately bring back all of the pressure and negativity.
 
BillOfRights said:
Reed Sheppard, UK 52.1%
Will Tshetter, Mich 51.9%
Kerwin Walton, Tx Tech 47.8%
Cade Tyson, Belmont 46.5%
Etc

RJ Davis wasn't "ridiculous" last season from 3, but he has been so far this season.

As donbosco pointed out above, when Davis' shots are removed, the rest of the team has a better 3FG% this season than last season. Davis is struggling. Rather than lazily blaming "coaching", maybe we should look at actual player performance. I'm not blaming RJ Davis, I'm not criticizing him as a player, I'm glad he's a Tar Heel and I want him taking the shots, but I want last season's Davis. Something ain't right with him, and for him, the team, and all of us, I hope he gets it figured out.
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Will Tshetter 0-9-1.7 51.9% 18 mpg

RJ Davis 3.1-7.7 39.8% 35 mpg

Come on man. There is no comparison there

Lazily blaming coaching says the guy regurgitating numbers with zero context
 
Icky Mettle said:
Crazy that top 4 contains one current Tar Heel and one former Tar Heel.
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That's not the top four that was just four notable. Kentucky had 3 main rotation players over 44% last season. RJ Davis hitting almost 40% isn't "ridiculous", but a 1st team AA career 36% shooter hitting only 25% is "ridiculous", and it isn't the coach's fault based on all avaliable evidence.
 
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Heelsandeers said:
Will Tshetter 0-9-1.7 51.9% 18 mpg

RJ Davis 3.1-7.7 39.8% 35 mpg

Come on man. There is no comparison there

Lazily blaming coaching says the guy regurgitating numbers with zero context
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There are 200 names. I didn't go through all of them to check for playing time. Davis was shooting close to 40 3FG% last season, and he's shooting close to 25% 3FG% this season. The rest of the team doesn't seem to be affected nearly as much.

You said davis shot a ridiculous percentage last season.I showed you two hundred players that shot up better percentage. Everything else is you moving the goalpost.

I think Davis is awesome, and I hope he gets back to last year's form, but to blame coaching, because a player isn't performing like he has in the past, is "ridiculous".
 
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