Who's really saying that, though, in any explicit terms?
I think anyone coming to his defense is simply stating that while Barnes and his staff have an obligation to train these players to become better shooters, there is no immediate cure-all for a bad shooting night. We tried going inside, going outside driving the ball, and getting to the FT line. We just couldn't hit from anywhere. And that particular performance was very out of the norm. I'm aware of our history missing a handful of layups a game, but I've never seen us miss that many in one game. We legitimately missed 15 makeable shots at the rim, including a mostly unconctested dunk by a 6-11 kid. Just a perfect storm of bad shooting from mostly everyone. Now if that continued for the next month, I would be first in line to wonder what has happened and why hasn't it been fixed. But I just don't think you can fix it in the span of 2 hours on the fly when no one is making shots.