How BYU is going to beat Portland and Gonzaga?

Cougarbib wrote:

That's a critical stat. While those teams may not have shot well from a percentage standpoint, they took more than they normally do and made more than they normally do.



This could indicate two things:

1) Post defense was so good all that was available were 3 point shots. BYU likes to play the zone, so an increase in the number of 3 point shots makes sense as teams may have found it difficult to attack the middle.

2) Our perimeter left the 3 point shot open. If it's open take it. Teams took an above average number of threes against us because they've never gotten so many good looks from the 3 as with us.



I'm inclined to think it's a combination of the two.



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if they were good looks, they would have made a higher percentage of them.

Not necessarily. Depends on how good of a shooter the player is. I get some great open looks when playing church ball, but still miss most of them.



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Gunk wrote:

Gunk wrote:
That's a critical stat. While those teams may not have shot well from a percentage standpoint, they took more than they normally do and made more than they normally do.



This could indicate two things:

1) Post defense was so good all that was available were 3 point shots. BYU likes to play the zone, so an increase in the number of 3 point shots makes sense as teams may have found it difficult to attack the middle.

2) Our perimeter left the 3 point shot open. If it's open take it. Teams took an above average number of threes against us because they've never gotten so many good looks from the 3 as with us.



I'm inclined to think it's a combination of the two.



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if they were good looks, they would have made a higher percentage of them.

Not necessarily. Depends on how good of a shooter the player is. I get some great open looks when playing church ball, but still miss most of them.



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It is the same team of shooters that made the season average. If we give more % of good looks they should hit a higher % of the shots. The problem is rebounds and uncontested 2nd chances since half of our guts already headed down court.



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Mark Durrant tweets



Every time I type in Gonzaga, my autocorrect changes it to gonads. This brings me great joy. I do it over and over again. I am 42.

Durrant is nuts :-)

Or maybe he's just lost his marbles.

Isn't Durrant the one that signed some guys balls?

I will be at the Portland game tonight. ABout 5 rows behind Greg Wrubell. If attendance is anything like the last few years we will have more fans than Portland. It's kind of fun to do the B Y U Cougars yell in their building.

vancouvercougar wrote:
I will be at the Portland game tonight. ABout 5 rows behind Greg Wrubell. If attendance is anything like the last few years we will have more fans than Portland. It's kind of fun to do the B Y U Cougars yell in their building.

My favorite when visiting opposing gyms is to do a Left-Right chant when someone on the opposing team fouls out. :)

Left right is kind of classless. But it's about as wild as fans get.

Cougs_Rule wrote:
Left right is kind of classless. But it's about as wild as fans get.

I don't think the left-right chant is classless, but the "hey, hey, gooooooood bye" is the one I hate and think is classless. Makes me cringe every time our fans start doing it.

Joe Lunardi has us into the tournament with a win vs Gonzaga tonight. I think we win this one, all we need is for three-four players to show up instead of just two.