(01-18-2012, 04:57 PM)81alum link Wrote:[quote author=wbbfan2 link=topic=5397.msg39330#msg39330 date=1326922658]
I might go out on a limb and argue that you should never be a member of the 20/100 club.
Hah! I took a look to see if anyone who took 100 attempts had ever shot that poorly.Â
The answer is: no. But you might be surprised that the poorest performance came from one of our most beloved players. Last year Kayla posted the worst three point shooting record for any Stanford woman attempting 100 shots, hitting .262 on 107 attempts. Needless to say, Kayla was a great college player who was not defined solely by her three point shooting.
Even Candice was only .336 in her freshman year--which is positively mediocre by historical standards at Stanford.
I don't really want to call out other poor shooters by name, but the "worst" shooting percentages in Stanford history after Pederson were .319, .331, and .335. If your role is to shoot the three (unlike Kayla, for whom it was a nice side bonus) then I think you would feel successful at Stanford if your percentages were in the upper .300s or better yet .400s.
Which brings us to this year. Perhaps defense against three point shooting has improved over the years, or maybe the extra distance is proving to be a factor. If everyone finishes the season shooting at the same rate as they have so far, this team will set some records--of the bad kind. I've got to think that sooner or later we will need to punish a team from doubling and tripling Nneka, and we can only do that with better accuracy from the outside.
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Don't forget that Kayla has an elbow injury that everyone denied was an injury.