A team where the bigs make you pay for leaving them open will be much better than a team where the bigs won't shoot from distance.

Yes, both are better than a team where the bigs are missing from 3 and no one is home to rebound. But the coaches have consistently (throughout the offseason and the early season) said that our bigs are good shooters-especially Haarms-and that helping them leverage that skill is part of the development that is part of BYU basketball. We proved last night that we can win games where the shots aren't falling (as long as we aren't playing Gonzaga).

Think of how different the game had been last night if open 3's had fallen from Lee, Haarms, and Harward. Suddenly there is more space inside, not to mention how different the game had looked if BYU was +9 points by early in the 2nd half. Let them shoot in rhythm. The coaches believe they will get better; so do I. And we'll need that dimension to open up the paint in April.