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John Brannen has said over and over and over that this is a defensive first team.
On the road we don’t play a defensive first style |
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02-10-2020, 03:21 PM | #144 | |
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So you have no point to prove. Just to want to make sure I’m wrong somehow. So John Brannen’s teams allowing unusually great offensive outputs on the road against poor offenses 9x in 2 years Is not a problem or a cause for concern? Jesus. I could say the sky is blue and y’all would tell me it’s not technically true. So once and for all, does anyone here want to tell me our Road defense has been good? Anyone want to debate that point? Let’s do it |
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One simple answer to why we defend better at home as opposed to the road would be because home teams shoot better at home. Fairly common sense. Maybe it shouldn’t be that drastic but all teams are going to play worse on the road.
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02-10-2020, 04:08 PM | #146 | |
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Anyway...I am probably making more out of it than is necessary but more teams will play Jarron like Uconn did down the stretch. Force him to his left and collapse on him. We need to have an answer if it comes up again. Just like when we played Memphis the entire team was going right into the shot blockers all night with the same results. We have to play a little differently in the upcoming game vs them. It wasn't working and we ended up with 49 points to show for it. Have to make some minor adjustments in these scenarios in real time. |
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Here's your simple claim: Our road defense has not been good this season. Let's revise that to "our road defense has been significantly worse than our home defense this season". It's easy to test. Our defense is ranked #136 in 8 road games. Our home defense is ranked #5. So the appropriate evidence supports that claim. Good logic so far. Then you go on to say it's not just random luck but rather a pattern that is representative of Brannen ball and therefore a cause for concern. This is a much more speculative claim that requires more than a few selective data points to support. And it's not supported by the full set of available data. Just go back to 2017 at NKU - #266 home defense, #144 away. That's a clear counterexample. Other years show about what you'd expect for a typical team, a somewhat worse defense on the road than at home (separations of 29, 45, and 74 spots in the other three years). The claim is not supported. Now, that's not how Cronin's teams were. His teams were much better defensively on the road, and also much worse offensively. It seems clear to me and others here that your "points to prove" make thinly veiled but aggressive references to Cronin/Brannen comparisons, and this is no exception. No matter how much you try to cloak your analysis as dispassionate, that reference is clear. It's more of a pattern than bad Brannen road defense. And it's tiresome. Good analysis is great. Post as much data as you want. Restrict your claims to what the data actually shows. You don't have to make up a point to prove. No one has to be right or wrong. |
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