01-01-2018, 10:40 AM | #1 |
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Mick's Best Offense By Far
We all kinda hoped and believed that this would be Mick's best Offense to date. And After 14 games, its very much on pace to be the best offensive team in the Cronin Era.
Lets look at where Crucial Offensive Stats stack up against other Cronin teams: Avg Possession Length: 16.7 sec (#1) Effective FG%: 54.2% (#1 and its better than any team Bob Huggins coached in his last 4 years at UC) 2Pt FG%: 52.5% (#1 and best in UC Kenpom era 2002-present) 3Pt FG%: 38.4% (#1) FT %: 68.1% (#4) FT Rate: 36.9 (#4) Assist %: 61.9% (#1) Off Reb %: 37.9 (#3) The only Spot where we need to improve (and we are) is Turnovers: TO%: 18.4% (#5) And even that is no where near as bad as it seems. This is Micks best Offensive teams hands down. Get the TO's down to 16% and we are an offensive powerhouse with elite scoring from all levels. Here is how we great out in Synergy on various Aspects of Offensive: There are 6 categories: Poor, Below Average, Average, Good, Very Good and Excellent. This is graded on Points per possession. Transition: Very Good Overall Half Court Offense: Good Against Man to Man: Very Good Against Zone: Average After Timeouts: Good Spot Up Jumper: Good Transition: Very Good Cut to the basket: Below Average Post UP: Very Good Putbacks: Very Good Isolation: Poor Pick N Roll Man: Good hand Off: Good |
01-01-2018, 11:27 AM | #2 |
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We are at 112.3 Adj points per 100 possession
Last year we were 114.9. Shooting and assist numbers are the best in his tenure, but unless we really continue to cut down on the turnovers, I don't think we're gonna crack 115. That said, if our defense stays sub 90, we'll be fine. |
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While offensive effiency is a good stat, it doesn’t make you a good offense. I’ll take this years offense over last years any day. Our TO are improving IMO and we had a few really bad TO games that really inflated our TO rate. In our 4 big games 2 were good and 2 were bad. In the cayman trip we had 2 aweful TO games. I’ll take better shooting, higher scorer, faster pace and overall better to watch offense over a few more TO |
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01-01-2018, 03:14 PM | #5 | |
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Think about it. If this was true, waaaay more teams and coaches would be playing super slow. Without something supporting this, I really couldn't disagree more. IMO it's a lot harder to score efficiently in the half court facing a set defense every possession. |
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But I think this year we are the better offense no matter what the effiency numbers say. Villanova is the #2 offense and is #171 in pace St Mary is the #3 offense and is #335 in pace Arizona is the #6 offense and is #142 Mich st and Zaga are not top 50 in pace yet have offensive effiency Wichita State is #13 offensively and 122 in pace Add in that Virginia is always a top 50 in effiency yet no one would say they are a good offense. |
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top 10 teams in adjO on left, 10 worst on right I have listed their adjusted tempo 73.1 70.8 70.1 66.2 64.2 70.4 73.4 67.3 70.0 68.9 68.7 71.1 71.4 67.0 70.4 68.5 73.2 69.8 67.8 70.1 Averages 70.23 69.01 |
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01-01-2018, 04:24 PM | #10 | |
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I can do the same thing by finding fast teams who score efficiently, and fast teams that are inefficient. Same with slow teams. There might be a correlation. I really don't know. I doubt it's a strong one though if it is. Fwiw, I do agree that we have the capability to be a better offense. And should be. But the end result matters, and right now, were just a hair below what we were last year. Doesn't mean we won't finish better, or that our numbers so far are predictive of what we will be going forward. Hopefully they keep cutting down on the turnovers. If they do, and we keep shooting, Orebd, and passing like we have, we will be more than fine. Last edited by ervins84; 01-01-2018 at 04:29 PM. |
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