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[IUPbigINDIANS]

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IUP equipment manager forgot the jerseys. Yikes!

I told people all day ... BAD feeling about this game.

Not a good omen !

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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They gonna wear Boro jersey's inside out?

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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IUP equipment manager forgot the jerseys. Yikes!

Wow. Imagine the talking coming his way.

[IUPalum]

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IUP equipment manager forgot the jerseys. Yikes!

[boatcapt]

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That would be like Ben telling WL not to play defense because they 'ain't that good at it'

According to the "experts" here, WLU already doesn't play D!!

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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Or maybe he can't tell his baby boy to knock off shooting because he ain't that good at it??!!

Shooter gonna' shoot!!!

That would be like Ben telling WL not to play defense because they 'ain't that good at it'

[boatcapt]

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Maybe BUT is Joe purposely not using the post action because he wants to save it? The few times they used it against zones it was dominant. Trying to stop those trees at the high and low post wasn't possible against Cal but they didn't use it much or purposely didn't use it. I guess we'll soon see.

Or maybe he can't tell his baby boy to knock off shooting because he ain't that good at it??!!

Shooter gonna' shoot!!!

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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Seems like the genesis for a game plan vs IUP...Play zone and make IUP's shooters try and beat you from outside. As you pointed out is a previous post, IUP's shooters are taking more outside shots than their shooting % might dictate.

Possibly. However, those teams run the zone year-round. Most teams aren't going to effectively master a zone defense with a day or two prep.

[IUPalum]

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Seems like the genesis for a game plan vs IUP...Play zone and make IUP's shooters try and beat you from outside. As you pointed out is a previous post, IUP's shooters are taking more outside shots than their shooting % might dictate.

Maybe BUT is Joe purposely not using the post action because he wants to save it? The few times they used it against zones it was dominant. Trying to stop those trees at the high and low post wasn't possible against Cal but they didn't use it much or purposely didn't use it. I guess we'll soon see.

[boatcapt]

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When you take out the five games against exclusive zones, IUP's three-point percentage eclipses 40 percent.

Against zones they are shooting the paltry 30-127 from deep (23.6%)
Against all other teams they are shooting 209-519 (40.2%)

That's just a substantial difference.

Seems like the genesis for a game plan vs IUP...Play zone and make IUP's shooters try and beat you from outside. As you pointed out is a previous post, IUP's shooters are taking more outside shots than their shooting % might dictate.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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I'd say 37% is acceptable if you are a team that doesn't take many 3's in a game...say 15 to 20 attempts. Average more than that and a team is playing with fire. They will beat bad teams because they are bad teams but it will present problems when you play a good team that can excede your 3 point shooting by a significant margin.

The problem with that theory in IUP's case, as Fairmont found out the very hard way, is against teams that play like FSU, IUP can torch them from both the outside and pummel them from the inside. IUP massacred Fairmont under the basket. That was men versus boys.

Against two other regional-level teams who play exclusive man, IUP mixed the inside-outside to perfection -- East Stroudsburg (14 made treys) and Shippensburg (11 made treys).

They hit 37% to 40% of their treys in March and they will be nasty (and the favorite to win the region) -- minus if they get matched up with Mercyhurst. Somehow in a decade IUP still acts like they are seeing that junk Triangle and Two for the first time -- every time.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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When you take out the five games against exclusive zones, IUP's three-point percentage eclipses 40 percent.

Against zones they are shooting the paltry 30-127 from deep (23.6%)
Against all other teams they are shooting 209-519 (40.2%)

That's just a substantial difference.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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I'd say 37% is acceptable if you are a team that doesn't take many 3's in a game...say 15 to 20 attempts. Average more than that and a team is playing with fire. They will beat bad teams because they are bad teams but it will present problems when you play a good team that can excede your 3 point shooting by a significant margin.

That's the misleading part. Minus the games against zone teams they are lighting it up from outside. They've shredded every team that has tried to A) press them and B) play them in man.

[boatcapt]

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I'd say 37% is acceptable if you are a team that doesn't take many 3's in a game...say 15 to 20 attempts. Average more than that and a team is playing with fire. They will beat bad teams because they are bad teams but it will present problems when you play a good team that can excede your 3 point shooting by a significant margin.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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The old adage is teams live and die with the three. The thing with this team, however, is it shouldn't have to live and die with it. This roster has three, big, talented zone busters. Yet, like Saturday, they just kept bombing away. Brick after brick.

One thing that jumps out in reviewing the stats is that IUP is starting to rely more and more on the three-point shot.

Consider:

Through the Jan. 2 game against Gannon (12 games), the most three-pointers they attempted in any game was 28. Their average during those first 12 games was about 24 attempts per game. Since then, their attempts have skyrocketed -- with 7 games well over 30 attempts.

They are struggling mightily against zone defenses. Consider these three-point stats:

California (10-36 and 7-33)
Mercyhurst (5-19 and 6-23)
Seton Hill (2-16)

Total: 30-127 (23.6%)

Granted, they don't see exclusive zones very often and that's not a huge sample size. But, fact is pretty clear they shot terribly in all five of those games against a 40-minute zone. Why is that? We obviously aren't the only ones who can see statistics and trends. Not many teams in the regional field play much zone -- thankfully. The answer seems simple. Let Cobo and the boys take over down low. But, they seem hesitant to go down that path.