Last game he shot 2/9 from three point range and 1/5 tonight. These two games have crushed his season 3 point percentage.
He's down to 48% now.
He's down to 48% now.
What's wrong with Brea?
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Everyone has occasional slumps
He looks like he may have the Kung Flu
I wish I could have slumps like that 
Probably a bit of a confidence thing and forcing some shots he’s not comfortable shooting. He’s more of a spot up or off the screen shooter. Right now his shots are being self created and I don’t think that’s his comfort zone.
Wasn’t he questionable before last game? Maybe that has something to do with his slump the last 2 games counting tonight.
Thought he shot a couple tonight that he shouldn’t have. He’s fine. Robinson was on so that’s just the way it goes when you have multiple good shooters.
He has Coach Pope's green light to shoot out of his slump. Shooters gunna shoot!
What’s his shooting percentage at home vs. away/neutral?
Seems like he shoots better at Rupp this season, but I don’t know for sure.
Seems like he shoots better at Rupp this season, but I don’t know for sure.
Percentage are exactly that.
Everything reverts to the mean.
He's doing ok.
48% for the year.
Damn it.
A sage once said,
No crying on the yacht.
Everything reverts to the mean.
He's doing ok.
48% for the year.
Damn it.
A sage once said,
No crying on the yacht.
Shooting is streaky by nature. We have a segment of our fanbase that expects the season averages to play out every game but the reality is you’ll have a 7-9 game and then a 2-10 game….even Steph Curry’s shooting percentages come together in streaks and lulls
Miss. St. was really on him defense . He just can't create his own shot.
He had 2 wide open looks tonight and missed both. He's going to have some 2 for 9 games. He's going to have some 7 for 9 games. That's 9 for 18. The fact the team scored 95 without him is huge.
UK needs to run some plays for him. Screens and double screens. He ends up shooting over a defender too much.
Also get some floaters and elbow jumpers going if they force him off the 3line.
6 7 get in that lane and rebound.
If he'd set screens, he'd get some easy looks.
That’s a good point. Something I’ve noticed a lot the last few seasons especially, is we do a lot of slip screens. There is a time and place for them but there is also a time and a place for a good solid screen.
He'll be OK. Didn't play all that much in last game or this one. Something is going on like illness or nagging injury for him. I think he will be back to normal next week.
Of course he's fine. I was just being silly on purpose. The smiley face was supposed to be a clue.
Its not helping that other teams are really focusing on shutting him down.
If you've got someone in your face, then put a teammate between the two of you. That also requires his teammates to recognize the situation. It's a tough thing. On one hand, from OUR (the fans) perspective it's a beautiful thing to witness with constant ball motion that results in a score, but from their perspective it puts more pressure on the shooter because there's often much less time on the clock, and that "ROI" is always in the back of their minds. "we're really moving the ball well, but not getting anything from it".
It did help Jaxson Robinson get WIDE open for one of his early 3s, though. Jaxson faked a pass to the corner to Brea, and the MSU bit HARD on the pass b/c he knew the scouting report. Robinson then had all day to gather and stroke it.
Variance. He wasn't as good as 20-27 and he's not as bad as 3-14.
He was questionable last game and this game he didn’t seem great. If he had what my family has been passing around the last month I’m not surprised he didn’t shoot well. There were days I didn’t even wanna get out of bed.
Every team is swarming him...its what opened Jaxson up this game
After hitting 7 against Florida teams are keying on him heavily, it’s partly responsible for Robinson and others being able to go off tonight. Robinsons performance proves you can’t key on stopping one guy, we have several that can burn you on any given night.
Wild guess but it seems Brea feeds off the Rupp / fan energy. Not sure of home / away stats but from memory, he shoots better at Rupp. We shall see Tuesday!
This a serious question?? It’s a law of averages. Great shooters have great shooting games. Great shooters have poor shooting games. And yes sometimes multiple in a row.Last game he shot 2/9 from three point range and 1/5 tonight. These two games have crushed his season 3 point percentage.
He's down to 48% now.
I think he's just frustrated at how hard teams are guarding him. He's not the most athletic guy and he's not able to run off screens or floppy action type stuff and get easy looks. So he's forcing some shots, likely because Pope is telling him to get more shots up. I was surprised we didn't see more Jax and Koby on the court together once Jax got hot. At that point Jax was drawing all the coverage which woulda either given Brea some open looks or pull the double off of Jaxon.
Either way, we made 16 3s and Brea only made 1, that bodes well.
Either way, we made 16 3s and Brea only made 1, that bodes well.
Imagine if Brea and Robinson ever both get hot in the same game. That would be fun!
I think I mentioned this in the game thread. Would be absolutely incredible if we could get three very reliable scorers from deep, preferably one of them a big man (Garrison?), and then you have all these cuts for easy layups.
I’d feel better if they both consistently got 14 or so apiece every game then 20 one night and 3 the next.