Game 3 - Nov 10th - UC Irvine

[PantherAlum09]

It was a rough game. We couldn't shoot. UC Irvine played very well. They played much better today than they did against LMU Friday night. We also didn't see much zone. I think they determined they didn't need to because they could just sag the guys defending Hutty, Tytan, and Bond all game. It was a good gameplan by them. I was hoping they might adjust as Hutty started knocking a few down but to their credit, they didn't panic. Campbell is going to have to find a way to hit some threes even when he's got someone closer to him, and Leon is going to have to knock some down with more consistency. We are essentially asking Tytan and Leon to shoot 35% with a lot more attempts if teams are going to play this kind of defense.

UC Irvine is an old and tough team. They also shot the lights out today. Many of their shots were contested and they hit them anyway. We missed at least 10-15 inside of 5 feet and it might actually be more than that. It wasn't just the 7 footer causing us issues. We also missed a ton of open looks at 3. I agree with others that have posted about this. I love the athleticism and size of our team, but if we can't shoot the 3 with any sort of regularity, the ceiling is going to be a bit limited.

[BCPanther]

Have to do more to get Schwieger and Weisbrod better looks.

[Fran McCrabby]

Kyle Pock needs to get some shots he can be streaky when he gets going.

[MVCBeat]

I knew better than to let myself get exicted. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me 17 times…..you’re not gonna fool me again.

[Username]

Seeing a lot about shooting, but we did go 7-17 from the arc while they went 4-16. I know it’s not the volume like 14-31 we’re used to in the past, and a lot of it was sagging and not shooting, but they were equally driving to the rim and throwing it off the backboard with no rebounding.

[Username]

Hutson out big guy went 2-10 inside the arc

[Blue42]

Seeing a lot about shooting, but we did go 7-17 from the arc while they went 4-16. I know it’s not the volume like 14-31 we’re used to in the past, and a lot of it was sagging and not shooting, but they were equally driving to the rim and throwing it off the backboard with no rebounding.

Shooting percentage was better from outside the arc than inside.

Lots of makeable looks in that game. They gotta go down.

Then we fell behind and starting pressing and it got sloppy.

[PantherAlum09]

Seeing a lot about shooting, but we did go 7-17 from the arc while they went 4-16. I know it’s not the volume like 14-31 we’re used to in the past, and a lot of it was sagging and not shooting, but they were equally driving to the rim and throwing it off the backboard with no rebounding.

We could've shot at least 10 more open threes though. We didn't because the guys they were leaving open missed a couple badly and got gun shy. They got up on Pock, Campbell Wesbrod, and Schweiger. Campbell, Hutson, and Anderson all missed way too many shots 5 feet and in. That game should not have been a 20 point loss. We had plenty of opportunities to make easy floaters and lay ups and just couldn't finish.

[CyCarp]

Hutson out big guy went 2-10 inside the arc

I like Huston a lot, but he's just typically not great against other good bigs. Nothing new here imo.

[7YrsOfCollegeDownTheDrain]

it was a bad day shooting the ball from 2 as others have said. We had some chances to take the lead mid to late in the 1st half and missed chip shots. I can think of two by Trey on inbounds plays.

My opinion from watching in the building was we defended ok...they made tough shots and it got away from us.

Jake used some lineups in the 2nd half just trying anything. went small a couple different times with bond or tytan playing the 5. We played a good team...they shot at high clip we had a bad day. it's one game... lets just hope the shooting woes don't follow us to wichita.