Watching last night’s Final Four matchup between Syracuse and North Carolina and a couple games before this in the tournament (a small sample size I admit) it seems the game has changed a ton in the last twenty years.
I’m not going to pretend I know more than lifelong basketball minds but this is what I do know-
Back when I used to watch a ton of college basketball, if players launched off balanced three pointer after off balanced three pointers instead of trying to work the ball inside for a better percentage shot, those players that launched threes would be riding the pine.
A coach back in the day would sit those players down in a hurry.
Maybe they just didn’t feel like they could work the ball inside so the theory is to just launch threes and hope your team gets on a hot streak? But how many games in a row can you count on lower percentage shots to bail you out?
Anyway it was a nice run for Syracuse and fun to watch.
#GoOrange!
Good Morning Gloucester 
I know when I played basketball I was shorter than most so I think you will find many times the shorter player’s will take outside shots more often to get over the tree’s inside. But then that was elementary, Jr. High days 🙂 Dave
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Two words: Steph Curry
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Joey, they stay in the game because they hit a lot of those off balance shots !!!!! A lot of the ball movement against the zone defense is to find a guy who is on “his” spot (a place where he has practiced his shot a lot) and is open. They try to take those shots from a balanced position but sometimes time is running out, etc. Another thing that is different is the frequency of alley-oop passes, long passes to an open big guy near the hoop- he catches and slams in one motion; a lot of practice and well timed. If you or I were hurling up those three-prayers we’ed
be yelling “nothing but air!! “
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Maybe research, stats, and shot analysis last few years (n. Carolina) and Stephen Curry factor lands you there with that style play?!
Chris Ford credited with first–awesome guy.
Cool charts http://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2015/story/_/id/12993098/nba-35-year-war-3-pointer
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