The Curious Case of Darius Days

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In 8 LSU losses (he missed @Bama) Darius Days is 2 for 28 from 3...that's 7%

However, in LSU's 18 wins, he is 46 for 93 for 49.4%

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thats literally unheard of

james harden like

It's wild how much his numbers have impacted LSU's chances of wining or losing.

His performance is critical, but I think it has to do with ball movement. When he is playing well all the players touch the ball and then they lock in on defense. When the offense gets one-on-one standing around the defense looks lackluster.

One would think that with Wade being a great numbers guy, when he sees that Days isn't close on his first two to three 3-pointers, he would try to get him to work more down low for easier points to get some offensive production out of him with his size. I feel like in games where he has struggled lately, it's like he shoots mostly all 3s or doesn't get involved in the offense. He is fully capable of scoring down low or in the mid-range.

I’ve examined this too & just slightly misleading

IIRC he has an 0-8 game from 3 in a loss. And two more where he went 0-5.

Yea, that isn’t good, but it’s a big chunk of the sample size you are talking about.

I think the correlation of Days’ play in losses stems more from involvement then it does straight up bad play.

He is the most important player on this team, the thing that hurts him is when he is missing shots he gets down on himself and it effects the rest of his game and tends to get in foul trouble. It will be important to get him going early on Saturday

Perhaps maybe more than any player on this team (and any player in the last several years) he confidence goes from one extreme end of the spectrum to the other. If he makes his first three you can almost guarantee the next one is going to go down as well. And if he is feeling it he is a guy that can literally give 8 points and 5 rebounds in a span of 5 minutes. But when he is off his body language looks like a guy who is completely defeated. Say what you want about Watford, Smart and Thomas, but those guys NEVER lose confidence in themselves. Even to their team's detriment at times. They don't care if they have missed 6 shots in row. They fully believe the 7th is going to go down and they are on the cusp of a career night. Days has to get a little bit of that in his psyche

You usually have a good sense of where Days is about 5 minutes into the game.

He played 32 min vs Bama and got 12 rbs but only 2 pts. I figured he was gone after this season but wonder if he'll come back to improve his consistency?

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Perhaps maybe more than any player on this team (and any player in the last several years) he confidence goes from one extreme end of the spectrum to the other.

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that's really the only thing that can explain it. Sure, every shooter has cold stretches, but Days is either red hot or ice cold.

It has to be mental, but physically that huge swing in his numbers just doesn't make sense.

The reason for this is that, when Days isn't getting a lot of looks, it's because we aren't moving the ball around, and Thomas or Smart are just taking the ball and driving or shooting with out passing to the open guy.