Texas Tech basketball: Strengths and weaknesses of the 2020-21 roster

Weakness: 3-point shooting

There’s no way a team can lose both Davide Moretti and Jahmi’us Ramsey and not take a step back in 3-point shooting.  Those two players combined for 127 made 3’s this past season with each hitting at least 60.  That was 56.6% of the team’s made shots from deep.

Now, we head into this year with only one proven 3-point shooter, Kyler Edwards.  And the rub there is that last year, his shooting percentage fell 12.7%.   Still, he remains the only player that we can label an above-average outside shooter.

McClung is improving in that area as he shot 5% better last year from deep than he did as a freshman.  Still, he has to be better than the 32.2% he shot last year.

Meanwhile, both Shannon and McCullar were dreadful long-range options last year.  Neither shot better than McCullar’s 28.6% from deep and they combined for just 17 makes from 3-point range.

Last year, forward T.J. Holyfield was a nice outside shooter for a power forward as he hit at a 34.9% clip while knocking down 15 shots from deep.  That was enough to keep opposing defenders honest.

His replacement, Santos-Silva, is not going to be an outside threat by any measure.  In fact, he’s yet to even attempt a 3-pointer during his college career.

Two newcomers that could help in this area are Joel Ntambwe and Chibuzo Agbo.  Ntambwe shot 38.6% from outside two seasons ago as a true freshman while Agbo has impressed during summer workouts thanks to a jump shot that is reportedly textbook beautiful.

Still, until we see this team prove to be able to hit shots from deep, we are going to have reason to question whether or not there are enough outside threats to keep opposing teams from simply packing their defense inside the arc.