One of the hunches I had last season was that Wichita State was very good when it played three sharpshooters on the court at the same time.
Gregg Marshall often lauded the Shockers for being the best-shooting team he’s had in two decades as a head coach. Landry Shamet, Conner Frankamp and Austin Reaves were all considered knock-down shooters and Samajae Haynes-Jones made 44 percent of his threes.
But just how good were the Shockers when they had three of those players on the floor at the same time?
I wanted to find out the answer, so I combed through play-by-play data for WSU during the 2017-18 season to find out just how often that lineup was used and its effectiveness.