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1duluth1

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WVU is ranked #291 in shooting percentage - between Norfolk State and Arkansas Pine-Bluff.
That means over 80% of all universities shoot better than us, the 16th ranked team in the country.

I brought this up several years ago, but I still wonder if too much time on the weights ruins shooting touch? John Beilein liked his players skinny - and able to shoot. I wonder after you spend middle school and high school developing a shot... then hitting the weights hard in college - changing the motion of the arms with large muscles - does that affect shooting that you spent years developing.

Even if my theory is discounted, does anyone have a clue why we never seem to have good-shooting teams? It is just a preference to recruit defenders, rebounders, etc.? I am not asking why can't get 5-star recruits like Duke. I am asking why we can't get shooters better than Norfolk State?

-Winter Tim
 
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Rootmaster

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but...but...most posters here will tell you that we score by beating the opponent down! No shooters....or current ones in our system.
 
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I think it's bc Huggins has an antiquated view of what constitutes basketball skill (or he's playing to his base of old, wannabe tough guys WVians) where the assessment of usefulness is not "roll off this screen and make a 3, hit this stepback or teardrop, perform this dropstep or up and under." It's, "dive after this ball Pete Rose style and run through this wall. We'll worry about actual basketball after we've established that you're my b*#ch and I can make your life miserable if I want."
 
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1duluth1 said:
WVU is ranked #291 in shooting percentage - between Norfolk State and Arkansas Pine-Bluff.
That means over 80% of all universities shoot better than us, the 16th ranked team in the country.

I brought this up several years ago, but I still wonder if too much time on the weights ruins shooting touch? John Beilein liked his players skinny - and able to shoot. I wonder after you spend middle school and high school developing a shot... then hitting the weights hard in college - changing the motion of the arms with large muscles - does that affect shooting that you spent years developing.

Even if my theory is discounted, does anyone have a clue why we never seem to have good-shooting teams? It is just a preference to recruit defenders, rebounders, etc.? I am not asking why can't get 5-star recruits like Duke. I am asking why we can't get shooters better than Norfolk State?

-Winter Tim
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John Beilien got his *** whipped in Big East play because he had those skinny players.

During the 2005-2006, West Virginia won its first eight Big East conference games and entered the top ten in the 2005-2006 national rankings in February.It was the first time West Virginia had ranked in the top ten in the Coaches Poll.They were the final unbeaten team in conference play. After the good start, the team lost four of its next five games to fall to 9–4 in conference play. Sounds familiar doesn't it.
 
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Nut hug Beilein all you want but we never rose above a 6 seed with Beilein. After his Fab 5 left we reverted to the NIT.
 
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To hell with shooting good if it means we wear tshirts under our jerseys to cover up our lack of muscle (mike gansey). We need to lift heavy so we can go out with no jerseys on to warm up.
 
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1duluth1

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WVUALLEN said:
John Beilien got his *** whipped in Big East play because he had those skinny players
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You are correct about Beilein's skinny teams getting pushed around in Big East play. But I think his teams were better suited for the tournament once they began. It seems to me that foul are called tighter in the NCAA tournament game. Also, after Beilein came within overtime of taking WVU to the Final Four, he went to Michigan and made it to the NCAA championship game in 2013.

As to other comments about skinny Gansey wearing t-shirts... I remember Gansey beating #6 Wake Forest in the NCAA tournament... and having big games against UCLA in a road win, and Villanova in the Big East semifinal
Also, Gansey for his WVU career shot 52.6%. I would take some of that now.

I don't anyone to think I am not happy to have Huggins. I am. I still just can't figure out why we are 281 out of 350 schools in shooting. Hopefully we can get back to winning on forced turnovers and offensive rebounding. If you shoot a lower percentage, at least win because you take a lot more shots.
 
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