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Old 03-18-2023, 12:42 PM   #4
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Hofstra is a team of extremes. They are a top 10 shooting team, and top 20 in field goal defense. They're top 40 in taking care of the ball, keeping opponents off the line, 2pt offense and defense, and 3pt offense and defense. You'd think they would be a top 5 team in the country looking at those stats. But they are outside the top 300 in both offensive and defensive rebounding, and are dead last in getting to the free throw line.

A big part of their shooting success is they convert over 49% from midrange. It's not really an inefficient shot for them, which makes it tough to gameplan. They have a below average assist rate, which indicates that they run a lot of iso sets for guys who can get to the rim or create separation and hit a jumpshot. They have four players who shoot over 60% at the rim and over 45% from midrange. Three of them shoot over 37% from beyond the arc, and two of them are 6'8. That's tough for anyone to guard. Based on the bad rebounding numbers, I'd guess they spread it out on offense and let those guys go to work.

This seems like a tough matchup for us. We have a lot of guys that struggle in iso defense. Hofstra just put up 1.23 points per possession on Rutgers top 10 defense. But they can obviously be beat - they've lost to several bad teams including North Carolina A&T, who was 15-17 at the rim with no shots blocked. St Mary's shut them down, holding them to 48 points. Purdue scored 85. Zach Edey had 18 rebounds in that game, Hofstra had 20 total. We don't have the defenders that St Mary's has, so we need to dominate the boards and get as many extra possessions and putbacks as possible.
Nice to read your breakdown. Seems like an interesting challenge for sure.
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