NCAA Tournament 2000 - Northern Arizona playbook: Going for three

Northern Arizona playbook: Going for three
Coach's Edge

Jacks is the perfect name for the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks. They love the 3-ball, connecting on more than eight of them a game. In their 85-81 Big Sky Tournament Championship overtime victory, the Jacks canned 16 triples to outlast Cal State Northridge. Expect sharp-shooter Ross Land to get his 3-point looks -- 49 percent of his shots come from beyond the arch, and of active Division I players with more than 300 3-point shot attempts, he is shooting the highest percentage. If this team gets hot they are dangerous.

ANIMATE THIS PLAY DIAGRAM WITH SHOCKWAVE
(A) Coach Mike Adras goes by the philosophy of "Recruit to Shoot," and this Lumberjack team is full of shooters.
(B) UNA utilizes baseline cuts and screens to get their shooters open. Point guard Adam Lopez (14) gets things started with a pass to Billy Hix (32) cutting up to the right wing from the baseline.

(C) Ross Land (23) has never seen a shot he didn't like. One might say Land is very comfortable from 3-point land.
(D) Dan McClintock (50) likes to set screens to get Lumberjack shooters open. Land (23) uses a low screen from McClintock, then a high screen from Lopez (14) to get open beyond the arch. In 3-point land, Land will can another trey.


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