Is this the Devonté Graham effect? Bill Self isn’t convinced.
Before Kansas’ home game against Texas Tech on Feb. 2, the former guard FaceTimed the Jayhawks in the locker room to give them a pregame message: “We never passed up open shots. You guys pass them up all the time. Shoot it! I don’t care what Coach says. Shoot the ball.’”
Since then, a clear trend has emerged.
“Devonté can take credit for it,” Self said with a smile, “but he didn’t have anything to do with it.”
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This much can’t be disputed: Since that game, KU has attempted more threes than it did previously.