We can win without the 3.
However Free Throws could be the death of us.
I agree with you free throws should be a higher priority than 3s.
But, really, you can win without being good at lot of things.
Syracuse doesn't shoot foul shots well, but they only give up 58 pts a game, and out rebound their opponents by 8.
Marquette gives up a lot of 3s (like us), but they're a great foul shooting team.
Statistically we do two things well, block shots and don't turn it over a lot.
That's not enough for sustained success.
I'll go back to something I said after the Rutgers loss: we're not that far away from being a good team, but we need to get just a little bit better at everything.
Maybe 2 more offensive rebounds per game, give up one less three, make just 2 more foul shots than we are now.... Little things add up.
The good thing is, that's what happens with experience... You start getting 1 or 2 more of everything.
That's how we'll win. We're not going to be 75% foul shooters. We can live with being 66% (we're 62% now) if we do everything else just a tad better.