I remember that team's identity mostly being something like...
(1.) Just having three All-Americans. That was all. Three guys who were as good or better than anybody else on the court with them at the same time.
Three guys who were mismatch/invert your offense nightmares. Nobody short of a Joel Embiid or a Malcolm Brogdon could hope to guard any of them.
As good as that team was, it was two Naz miracles from being 9-9 in conference.
That trio was special because of the high usage, high efficiency combination. Sure they inverted, but it wasn’t because of good shooting. Five guys shot around 30% in conference play, including for the forwards. I think Wigginton, NWB, Shayok, THT, and Talley could shoot that and be just as good getting past their defender.
We discussed it in another thread, but it’s the efficiency that made them so good even though they shot poorly on 3Ps. In other words Hoiball. That team took 3Ps or good twos, and passed the ball. Despite shooting 31% on 3Ps (37% this year btw), their effective and true shooting were higher do to the better 2P FG% and 3P attempt rate and more FTA and FTM. More assists, too.
If you plug in Shayok’s career numbers for DJ and use Morris’s numbers for THT next year is still better 3P shooting than 2013-14. NWB’s numbers compare favorably to Kane’s junior season.
How do we get more efficient next year, particularly the high usage guys not named Lard? That and defense are the limiting factors, as asset wise there are more paths to success in terms of styles of play. Shot-selection, ball and off-ball movement, and team defense are largely reflections of coaching imo.