Good looks are ones that you have a reasonable chance of making. Basketball is dynamic, things change from game to game. If a team is having a bad shooting night from 3pt range, then the offense has to adjust to something else or the team will not score enough points to win. On a bad shooting night, open 3pt looks aren't "good" looks.
ISU seems to approach the game as if it is static. They just bomb away night after night and hope for the best. The season is half over. The team is showing itself to not be a good consistent 3pt shooting team. It is what it is. The concerning thing is that there seems to be no strategy for scoring when 3pt shots aren't falling.
Someone else mentioned that BU also shot poorly from 3pt range...but they got 22 FT attempts to compensate. Fortunately for ISU, BU really didn't cash in on the advantage they gained at the FT line by hitting only 13-22. Even with that, BU outscored ISU by 10 at the FT line.
Open 3-pointers are almost always good looks. It's how you get the open looks that matters. Are you playing inside-out and shooting off the pass, or are you shooting off the dribble without working the ball around?
I think Hines tweeted something last night about Haliburton shooting in the low 20s off the dribble. He has range, but he's also been affected by the extended three point line. He's taking extremely deep threes off the dribble with a defender present. Those are bad looks.
But when we kick it out to him, and he shoots it off the pass, those are GREAT looks that he has to shoot and hit if we're going to win. We missed too many of those last night. We don't have the talent to create better looks than that. We bomb away because it's the best offense we are capable of creating in the half court.
Also, how many times did we pass up wide open looks in transition only to back it out and start our terrible half court offense?