Scott Rich

And ask yourself why.

what is the quality of shot that the opposition is getting?

I left the SMU game feeling optimistic about our defense, even despite the metrics, because it just seemed like, hey, these guys were making really hard shots, and hey, their second and third guys were making shots they don't normally get.

It felt like that momentum carried over into this game, where it was still, we're forcing their best players to take really, really hard shots.

The law of averages just came back in our favor, and lo and behold,

Cal was not making the really, really hard shots.

The SMU had a few of them go down.

I think the raw numbers of three-point shots taken are a little bit misleading because Isaiah Evans took 13 of those.

Isaiah Evans was chucking up the ball.

But you know what?

I'm not mad at it.

I didn't see that – he took some questionable shots, but there was – none of those were a what are you doing slim, taking it completely off balance type of thing.

Those were all shots that we think Isaiah Evans can make.

And you know what?

I think we saw –

why we want Isaiah Evans taking those shots in how this game played out, because as his gravity well increased, as he made a couple of those hard shots, as he had to draw that defense, that is what led the paint to be open.

That is why, you know, we look at Cam Boozer and I, you know, we criticized him for taking too many threes against SMU.

He only took three threes.

He was nine of 16 from the field, you know,

All of those makes were coming from two point land today.