Texas Tech basketball: An optimistic look at the loss to Baylor

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Guard MaCio Teague #31 of the Baylor Bears is fouled by guard Davide Moretti #25 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders (Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images) /

Davide Moretti will not shoot that poorly again this year

Most surprising on Tuesday night was the cold hand of junior Davide Moretti who was just 3-11 from the floor and 0-6 from 3-point range. What was most unusual was the fact that the majority of his looks from behind the arc were wide-open attempts that he just simply didn’t knock down.

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Had he hit just two of those, it would have been a different game. For context, consider that he’s made two or more 3’s in 39 of his 89 career games as a Red Raider.

Taking that thread a bit further, we learn that it has been amazingly rare for Moretti to be without a 3-pointer in games when he’s had multiple attempts. He’s had 58 outings in which he’s hoisted three or more shots from deep. Only eight of those games ended with him having missed all of his long-range shots.

Of the games in which he’s shot at least four 3-pointers, the Italian has come up empty just four times in 41 contests. That’s an indication of just how rare his poor shooting night on Tuesday was. In fact, the 92% free-throw shooter ever missed the front end of a one-and-one opportunity at the line.

This year, the Red Raiders have just three reliable 3-point threats, Moretti, Ramsey, and Kyler Edwards (though the third of that trio is quickly losing his reputation as a “reliable” option). If two of those players are cold as was the case on Tuesday night when Moretti and Edwards were a combined 2-12 from deep, Tech is going to struggle.

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But it is rare for that to happen given how fantastic of a shooter Moretti is. Thus, we can be rather confident that this was his worst shooting night of the year and yet, it was a game Tech could have won.

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