The Bombs Away Award (for Most Undeserved Green Light)

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The Bombs Away Award (for Most Undeserved Green Light)

By LVBruin on Mar 9 2010, 4:09a 23

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Bumped. GO BRUINS. -N

On the way home from Tempe (yes I'm a glutton for punishment) I got to thinking, "has there ever been a worse shooting Bruin that has been allowed to jack up as many threes as Rags this season?" When I got home, I checked the numbers as far back as I could (unfortunately that was just 14 years, so these stats will encompass the CBH and Lizard eras). First I checked missed threes per game minus made threes per game (a statistic I named the "Inexplicable Green Light Number") and generated the following list:

Yr	Player	GM	3FGM	3FGA	IGLN
Sr	Nikola Dragovic	28	44	150	2.21
Jr	Josh Shipp	39	70	216	1.95
Fr	JaRon Rush	28	27	102	1.71
So	Jordan Farmar	37	63	189	1.7
So	Malcolm Lee	30	25	99	1.63
Jr	Arron Afflalo	36	87	232	1.61
Fr	Trevor Ariza	25	18	76	1.6
Jr	Ray Young	31	18	85	1.58
So	Arron Afflalo	39	83	227	1.56
Sr	Toby Bailey	33	47	145	1.55

So while the top portion of the list made sense with ND at #1 and junior year JS at #2 (remember the infamous slump), I realized that AA earned the #6 spot despite shooting over 38% that season by virtue of the fact that he put up 232 attempts. So then I decided to check ND's numbers against some really bad shooters.

Here are the Bruins that took the most threes per game despite shooting less than 30% from downtown:

Yr	Player	GM	3FGM	3FGA	3FG%	3PA/GM
Sr	Nikola Dragovic	28	44	150	29%	5.36
Fr	JaRon Rush	29	27	102	26%	3.52
So	Malcolm Lee	30	25	99	25%	3.3
Fr	Josh Shipp	29	25	89	28%	3.07
Fr	Trevor Ariza	25	18	76	24%	3.04
Jr	Ray Young	32	18	85	21%	2.66
So	Nikola Dragovic	25	10	42	24%	1.68
Jr	Kris Johnson	32	15	51	29%	1.59
Fr	Dijon Thompson	33	13	48	27%	1.45
Fr	Matt Barnes	30	10	34	29%	1.13

Two things stood out to me about this list: the difference between first and second (especially when you consider that Jaron Rush's squad averaged 10 more possessions per 40 minutes) and the fact that ND is the only Senior on a list full of freshmen.

I know that saying ND jacks up too many shots for a bad shooter is beating a dead horse around these parts but I thought the numbers were too eye-popping not to share.

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