Three pointing shooting appears to be improving

[BoilerDaddy]

Just something I've noticed...

It looks like the Boilers have broken out of the three point shooting slump that hampered them for most of the Big Ten season. By my calculations, they are 44/106 over the past 6 games (41.5%). During that stretch, Stephens (46%), Mathias (44%), and Davis (42%), have combined for 31 of Purdue's 44 made threes.

This bodes well heading into match-ups with tough defensive teams like Cincinnati and, hopefully, Kentucky.
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[BoilerDaddy]

Minor correction: Stephens, Marhias, and Davis have combined for 33 made threes over the past 6 games.
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[BoilerSmac]

Originally posted by BoilerDaddy:
Just something I've noticed...

It looks like the Boilers have broken out of the three point shooting slump that hampered them for most of the Big Ten season. By my calculations, they are 44/106 over the past 6 games (41.5%). During that stretch, Stephens (46%), Mathias (44%), and Davis (42%), have combined for 31 of Purdue's 44 made threes.

This bodes well heading into match-ups with tough defensive teams like Cincinnati and, hopefully, Kentucky.

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I was looking at those same #s, and they are solid. That stretch even includes 6-20 and 6-18 games.

 

[Bluegrass Boiler]

Problem is that we were only 3-3 over those six games, with two of the wins over bottom-dweller Rutgers and third-game-in-three-days 11 seed Penn State. That's the conundrum here. Many of us thought that the missing link to real success was a better outside game to loosen up the middle, but now that we have it, the results that matter (W-L) haven't materialized as expected. Nevertheless, still would much rather have us hitting 40+% from three than the alternative!

Boiler up!

 

[BoilerDaddy]

True. Those three losses were tough match-ups in hostile environments (at least in the first 2), but had Purdue shot poorly from distance, the results would have been worse.

Foul discrepancy was a big problem in those three losses. Turnover margin and offensive rebound margins weren't great, either.
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