grizonbob said:
Kind of an odd night for Wright. Had all those assists last weekend, and only one tonight. Wonder if the defense was doing something different that had him change his game, or if there were some other factors.
A lot of Wright's assists come from penetration and kicking it out to someone for an open 3 or open jumper. We couldn't throw it in the ocean from 3 tonight (4-21) so as expected the assist numbers were down quite a bit.
In the game against Sac Wright had 12 assists. 9 of them resulted in jump shots or 3 pointers.
In the game against PSU Wright had 9 assists. 6 of them resulted in jump shots or 3 pointers.
Gotta hit the open outside looks (or at least a decent percentage of them) when we get them. Both Wright and Oguine are very good at penetrating and kicking it out to open shooters. Their assist numbers will almost always tell the story about whether we shot well from outside or not.