Devoe & Deebo are shooting 50% or better from the 3pt line which are both top 10 numbers in the ACC. Khalid is better than 50% in transition baskets IMO those numbers warrant a change or at least some game by game adjustments
You are right about the 3 pt shooting percentages and even Usher is shooting .368 for the year from 3 - give him credit for improvement. GT is overall shooting .374 from 3 point land - good for 4th in the ACC as far as percentage goes. So I agree the data shows we have pretty good shooters.
I do think we have a 3 point issue though - using raw stats - GT is 13th in 3 point shots attempted so far this year and 12th in 3 point fgs made. I will throw in a couple of other stats before I make my point:
1) We are tied for the highest in the ACC for turnovers per game at 14.2 per game
2) While we are 4th in the ACC in 3 point FG%, we are 8th in the ACC in overall FG % at .452. So our 2 point FG 5 has to be in the bottom half, bordering on bottom quarter of the ACC.
3) Overall scoring we are 12th in the ACC at 69 points per game.
I don't have any overall stat on points off turnovers or points in transition but I expect we are low overall. But again I don't have a stat to prove it.
Again, these are raw stats which would change if you look at them through advanced analytics but I expect they would paint the same basic picture.
Now throwing in what my eyes tell me watching GT play, we have some capable 3 point shooters but we are not structured to take advantage of them (note we use the 3 pt shot less than almost anyone in the ACC). The way we are running our offense through a high elbow set looking for cuts or drives to the basket has caused us to turn the ball over more than we should or really can handle - and has forced our guards/wings into contested drives as a core part of the offense with the resultant low 2 pt shooting percentage.
The hope is that we can drive and kick for open threes but right now with the opposing 5 sitting in the lane helping, there is no reason for the wing defenders to help so no open kicks and we generally devolve into Devoe taking the ball at the top of the key and trying to drive to make something happen. He is the guy you want to be on the wing receiving the ball to shoot. He has done yeoman's work scoring so far this year but it is often a one on 2 or 3 adventure in the paint.
So the data so far tells us we shoot the 3 well enough for it to be a real weapon in our offense but the rest of the stats tell us there is something amis in the way we are structuring our offense to take advantage of that shooting. So go back to GT24 and ESPN's point that we need to change the basic set to one that works better for the players we do have. Could be the 4 out, could be something else, but the system we are running isn't generating the stats we want to see. Or need to see.
