my usual rant: at some point people will stop being anti-3 pointer, the same way we’ve stopped hearing about “establishing the run”, “hitting the ball on the ground” and other old school strategies that don’t help teams win.
it’s pretty simple math — in half-court offense, then best college teams score about 0.9 points per possession. the best midrange shooters, for example, shoot around 50%.
point is: if a 30% 3-point shooter takes a 3, that’s already an expected 0.9 points (pretty good), even ignoring the chance of getting an offensive rebound (around 25%) and subsequent scoring opportunity. there’s definitely something to using the early part of the shot clock to get an even better shot (typically layups or dunks off cuts) but in most instances getting a fairly open three for a competent shooter out of the half-court offense is a great outcome.