Texas Tech basketball: Davide Moretti’s best games of 2019-20

@ WVU 16 points, 3 assists, 2 steals

Playing in Morgantown is never easy and this year, the Mountaineers were one of the best defensive teams in the nation allowing just over 62 points per game.  So the fact that Moretti put up 16 points in Morgantown in Tech’s 66-54 loss should not be forgotten.

When you also factor in the seven points his team scored off of his three assists, Moretti either scored or assisted on 42.5% of his team’s points that day.  That’s the sign of a player who is leading the way on a day when his team struggled as a whole.

Playing without Shannon, Tech got zero points from T.J. Holyfield and shot just 28.4% from the floor as a whole.  What’s more, at just 6-28 (21.4%) from 3-point range, Tech was awful from deep, an aspect of the game that almost always told the Red Raiders’ fate in 2019-20.

But the one player who could find the range from behind the arc that day was Moretti.  Making 4-9 shots from 3-point distance, he was responsible for all but two of Tech’s makes from downtown.

The jumper was Moretti’s main weapon that afternoon.  That’s because he didn’t get to the free-throw line at all, just one of six games this season in which that was the case.

So often, his best games come when he spends quite a bit of time at the line.  That’s what the Big 12’s best free-throw shooter needs to do.

But that day in Morgantown, the Big 12 officials awarded Tech just seven free throws while sending the home team to the line 35 times.  Thus Moretti had to get his points some other way and he was able to do so by dialing it in from outside.  It was an impressive display of being adaptable from a player who at times has not always been known as such.  Thus, this game comes in as Moretti’s fourth-best of the year.