Cautionary Tale for Our Griz

citay said:

Anybody see the Laker-Blazer game last night?

Lakers: Long, athletic, fast, deep bench. Featuring the greatest player in the game, who had two slam dunks within 19 seconds in the opening quarter. You wondered how the Blazers could ever compete!

Oh....

...three-point shooting.

The Lakers were miserable, missing their first 15 shots from deep. The Blazers weren't a helluva lot better, but still--better. Once Stauskas got hot from three, the game turned dramatically, until Lillard took over late from deep.

The three: A game-changer.

I know we're excited about our Griz. Best roster top to bottom in the history of the program, in my opinion. A Power-Five roster right now. Athleticism and defensive prowess like we seldom see at Montana.

But ya gotta make that three-point shot.

Our season will turn on whether we can.

That's the new basketball.

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'68griz said:

I recall a Griz-Cat game a thousand or so years ago. The three-point shot had been in the Big Sky only a couple years, and the Griz had literally no one who could shoot a three. The Cats won in a walk, as they had a couple good long distance shooters. It was awful!

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Ursa Major said:

'68griz said:

I recall a Griz-Cat game a thousand or so years ago. The three-point shot had been in the Big Sky only a couple years, and the Griz had literally no one who could shoot a three. The Cats won in a walk, as they had a couple good long distance shooters. It was awful!

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68, are you thinking about the year we were Ferched?

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mweisner33 said:

Citay I think our coach shares the same thoughts!

[media]https://twitter.com/CoachDeCuire/status/1052735364044066816[/media]

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citay said:

Anybody see the Laker-Blazer game last night?

Lakers: Long, athletic, fast, deep bench. Featuring the greatest player in the game, who had two slam dunks within 19 seconds in the opening quarter. You wondered how the Blazers could ever compete!

Oh....

...three-point shooting.

The Lakers were miserable, missing their first 15 shots from deep. The Blazers weren't a helluva lot better, but still--better. Once Stauskas got hot from three, the game turned dramatically, until Lillard took over late from deep.

The three: A game-changer.

I know we're excited about our Griz. Best roster top to bottom in the history of the program, in my opinion. A Power-Five roster right now. Athleticism and defensive prowess like we seldom see at Montana.

But ya gotta make that three-point shot.

Our season will turn on whether we can.

That's the new basketball.

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Zirg said:

citay said:

Anybody see the Laker-Blazer game last night?

Lakers: Long, athletic, fast, deep bench. Featuring the greatest player in the game, who had two slam dunks within 19 seconds in the opening quarter. You wondered how the Blazers could ever compete!

Oh....

...three-point shooting.

The Lakers were miserable, missing their first 15 shots from deep. The Blazers weren't a helluva lot better, but still--better. Once Stauskas got hot from three, the game turned dramatically, until Lillard took over late from deep.

The three: A game-changer.

I know we're excited about our Griz. Best roster top to bottom in the history of the program, in my opinion. A Power-Five roster right now. Athleticism and defensive prowess like we seldom see at Montana.

But ya gotta make that three-point shot.

Our season will turn on whether we can.

That's the new basketball.

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You are definitely right about the NBA becoming a 3-pt emphasis league. The 3-pt attempts has sky-rocketed in recent years (and I wish the NBA would push the line back) and I don't dis-agree that college is also skeweing towards 3 pt shot percentage increasing, and I don't see any reason that trend won't continue upwards.

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