@scam-likely Thanks -- but even more simplistically, we're pretty high on attempts, and very mid on percentage made. That's going to limit the numerator in your formula. Or so it seems to me...
Yup ... still above average vs conference. Not great, but not poor. considering every defense tried to take the 3 away, it's not bad.
The volume of shots is what extends the defense and gives IU such a good 2 pt percentage. When and if he gets the type of players that can take advantage of the open lane, ie a real PG, an athletic slasher, and/or someone slightly better than Alexis, then we should get more open 3pt looks and shoot a better percentage.. Defenses won't be able to run us off the line as much.
7th in 2P% is surprising, should have been taking more of them I guess?
My assumption is teams are not afraid of our post-game, so they heavily defend the 3, which allows us to get better looks in the lane periodically. It's not a winning formula for our teams chemistry so teams are happy to give those up.
iu's free throw defense (or, how other teams shoot free throws against iu) is stunningly unlucky. iu is 12th in free throw percentage (78.3%) but 340th (75.8% - out of 365) in opponent free throw percentage and that's compounded by being 232nd in opponent free throw rate. essentially, we put people on the line a lot and they make them at an elite rate. not good.
also, i'm seeing people say "live by the 3, die by the 3" and, while it's true they're 153rd in 3pt percentage, iu is still 24th in eFG% because they're an elite 2pt percent shooting team (60.7%) which is 7th in the country. iu should be able to win games with how they're shooting overall but i'd argue that iu's biggest issue continues to be defense. iu is 124th in defensive efficiency in "quality games". that is where the lack of athleticism and rebounding is killing them.
anyway, let's get a win today.
@iureactionary That's interesting, so not only do we foul a lot we foul the opponents best free-throw shooters. So it says that opponents are able to draw fouls pretty effectively. They know we are slow, we reach, we take the bait on shot fakes, etc. so when a good FT shooter has the ball he tries to exploit that.
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