I today’s world of basketball, at any level, the 3-point shot is the weapon du jour for most teams. But the Texas Tech basketball team isn’t most teams.
At least, it isn’t supposed to be.
But in the two games that Chris Beard’s team dropped this week in the Las Vegas Invitational, the 3-point line became a crutch the Red Raiders leaned on too heavily when the going got tough. The results were disastrous.
Overall, Tech shot just 12-54 from behind the arc. That’s an atrocious 22.2%. That isn’t how this team was designed to play.