Wake Can't Shoot - Falls to Maryland

This post doesn't need to be long. Wake's 64-71 loss to Maryland can be summed up in one statistic.

5-30.

That was what Wake shot from beyond the arc. That's a whopping 16.7%. On 30 attempts. Are we serious? First of all a team should never jack up 30 attempts unless they're making over 50% of them, and second of all if a team can only make one out of every six they attempt they shouldn't shoot any of them at all.

Harvey Hale's 1-8 performance was clearly culprit number one. Just because he's supposedly our best three point shooter doesn't mean we need him to shoot them. We had much more success inside then we did from beyond the arc.

Chas McFarland doesn't need to take two threes in a game either (unless maybe the first one goes in). And if Johnson is off he doesn't need to shoot five.

Shooting threes is not a requirement. It's not the only way to play (and even win) a basketball game. No one should have been shooting anything outside of 15 feet tonight. Okay, maybe that's an exaggeration, but you get the point.

There were some decent offensive performances from Ish, Teague, and Johnson, and the overall defense wasn't atrocious. It certainly wasn't great, but it wasn't as bad as it was against Boston College.

But it doesn't matter what you do, if you jack up 30 three's and only make six you're going to lose the ball game.

That's about all I have to say about that.