Rough Shooting Night Costs Utes
The Utes are normally a strong shooting team, so even coach Jim Boylen was somewhat surprised that they had such difficulty hitting shots in the 63-50 loss at Brigham Young today.
"I thought at times we over-forced it when we had open looks," he said, "and I thought at times we took bad shots when we should have moved it to the next guy."
The Utes shot just 29.5 percent, including 25.8 percent in the second half, when they scored just 14 points in the final 15 1/2 minutes. Nobody had much of a night offensively; center Luke Nevill shot 3-for-12 and did not make a basket in the second half, forward Shaun Green was 1-for-8 and point guard Luka Drca missed all six of his three-point attempts -- part of a 5-for-25 showing that included missing all nine attempts in the second half.
"We just didn't execute like we normally do," Green said.
Guard Lawrence Borha was 6-for-12 and led the Utes with 15 points, but even he agreed with his coach's assessment.
"That second half, we couldn't get a ball to fall," he said. "We had wide open shots, we just didn't make them and a lot of us didn't shoot 'em. We passed them up for a lower-percentage play."
"I thought at times we over-forced it when we had open looks," he said, "and I thought at times we took bad shots when we should have moved it to the next guy."
The Utes shot just 29.5 percent, including 25.8 percent in the second half, when they scored just 14 points in the final 15 1/2 minutes. Nobody had much of a night offensively; center Luke Nevill shot 3-for-12 and did not make a basket in the second half, forward Shaun Green was 1-for-8 and point guard Luka Drca missed all six of his three-point attempts -- part of a 5-for-25 showing that included missing all nine attempts in the second half.
"We just didn't execute like we normally do," Green said.
Guard Lawrence Borha was 6-for-12 and led the Utes with 15 points, but even he agreed with his coach's assessment.
"That second half, we couldn't get a ball to fall," he said. "We had wide open shots, we just didn't make them and a lot of us didn't shoot 'em. We passed them up for a lower-percentage play."
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2 Comments:
Utah's poor shooting had nothing to do with BYU's defense? You are the expert - I guess you must be correct but it still seems odd.
It's always hard to tell when you are just missing, when it's the other team's defense, or when the crowd is affecting the shot. One thing's for sure - Utah is good at giving the ball away regardless of how well the other team is playing defense. It's almost a trademark of this team.
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