I wish Jared Josten would stop taking horrible shots all the time

[BonduBluejay10]

I would really like to see haak or dunham play a little more point so that josten wouldn't be out there chucking up prayers that 20% of the time go in i know hes a senior but its getting old.

[joecooll6]

Re: I wish Jared Josten would stop taking horrible shots all the time

He's the only guy on the team that has any remnant of the ability to create a shot. With our offense there's a lot of times when the shot clock is winding down and the only option is to give it to JJ and have him try to create something. He does it more out of necessity than stupidity.

[BonduBluejay10]

Re: I wish Jared Josten would stop taking horrible shots all the time

yea your right about that but i think if he would set up the rest of the team with better shots like a poiht guard should do rather than shooting a with 28 on the shot clock i think the team would shoot the ball more comfortably i think he acts too much like a 2 guard which is why i think it'd be nice to see him at the 2 and kerwin and haak at the 1 a little more because kerwins a 3/2 with the mindset of a 1 right now he'll develop into a scorer in the future.

[Panthers to the Bone]

Re: I wish Jared Josten would stop taking horrible shots all the time

He acts like a 2 guard, b/c the other 2 guards on the team aren't attacking the basket like 2-3 guards should. We know Viet can't attack, but Kerwin and Travo can, but have been a little passive. I think the past 2 weeks things have been alot better in regard to attacking, but Josten needs to continue to attack. Those drives will open up more 3 point shots that are less contested (or result in solid jump shots). Josten taking dribble drive pull ups is just fine, IMO. He's strong with the dribble and elevates to get great looks. I like what I saw yesterday, and Kerwin needs to continue to feel more relaxed and confident. He'll be just fine.

[NEIOWABB]

Re: I wish Jared Josten would stop taking horrible shots all the time

I wish Kerwin Dunham would have made a lay up instead of traveling yesterday so Josten wouldn't have had to take those shots. That was the biggest play in the game!

[PantherFan]

Re: I wish Jared Josten would stop taking horrible shots all the time

I've been so frustrated with our offense (even though it is my perception that it has been better lately) that I watched the game again today taking notes on when we shot the ball during the possession. In the first half we had 25 possessions, three of which we didn't shot until there was 10 or fewer seconds left on the shot clock, four of which we didn't shot until there were five or fewer seconds on the shot clock. We scored a total of two points on those possessions.

In the second half, we had 29 possessions. We had five possessions with 10 or fewer seconds when we shot, six with five or fewer seconds. We scored a total of 8 points on those possessions.

So, we had 18 possessions where the shot clock was at 10 or less when we shot and scored 10 points on those possessions. We scored 44 on the remaining 36 possessions.

We scored 2 points on the 10 possessions we had with five or less seconds left.

On 10 of the 18 possessions with the shot clock at 10 or under, we shot 10 3-pointers. We made 2 (20%). We were 7 of 23 for 3-pointers for the game (30.4%), so that means we were 5 of 13 (38.5%) when we shot a three earlier in the possession.

Nearly 1/4 of our possessions involved UNI not shooting until five seconds or less were left on the shot clock.

I don't know how this compares statistically to other college teams, but I think we are way more patient than most.

[BonduBluejay10]

Re: I wish Jared Josten would stop taking horrible shots all the time

yea thats true but i don't agree that it was the biggest part of the game not at all

[UNIPNTHR]

Re: I wish Jared Josten would stop taking horrible shots all the time

yea thats true but i don't agree that it was the biggest part of the game not at all

yea thats not surprising that you feel that way not at all

[BonduBluejay10]

Re: I wish Jared Josten would stop taking horrible shots all the time

I wish Kerwin Dunham would have made a lay up instead of traveling yesterday so Josten wouldn't have had to take those shots. That was the biggest play in the game!

How do you not figure that Korvers 7 3 pointers and that late 3 by houston aren't the biggest plays it wasn't dunhams fault and quite frankly it wasn't anybodys fault Theres a reason drakes in the top 25 they're a reat team and uni played an overall pretty good game and minus 2 of drakes 50 3 pointers uni would've had a win

[dan_beeding]

Re: I wish Jared Josten would stop taking horrible shots all the time

In case I end up in the Bondurant area, is there an alternate high school I can send my kids to, or at least an English tutor?

[unigriff]

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haha...good thing i plan to move out of state to teach...but maybe i should stay instate to help our children!

[joecooll6]

Re: I wish Jared Josten would stop taking horrible shots all the time

How do you not figure that Korvers 7 3 pointers and that late 3 by houston aren't the biggest plays it wasn't dunhams fault and quite frankly it wasn't anybodys fault Theres a reason drakes in the top 25 they're a reat team and uni played an overall pretty good game and minus 2 of drakes 50 3 pointers uni would've had a win

And what led directly to that 3 pointer?

[06panther10]

Re: I wish Jared Josten would stop taking horrible shots all the time

That was ,without question, the biggest play of the game.

[BonduBluejay10]

Re: I wish Jared Josten would stop taking horrible shots all the time

Whatever... it was a collective loss not just one persons fault. Thats what i'm trying to get to drake couldn't miss a thing in the second half and there wasn't a single player on UNI who had a perfect game everyone made mistakes throuhout the game.

[Matt Trump]

Re: I wish Jared Josten would stop taking horrible shots all the time

Whatever... it was a collective loss not just one persons fault. Thats what i'm trying to get to drake couldn't miss a thing in the second half and there wasn't a single player on UNI who had a perfect game everyone made mistakes throuhout the game.

But you started a thread blaming one player.