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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 896212, member: 767"]
I get the point; you can play better defense, make teams work harder for shots, and therefore using more clock, bringing possessions down.  My response would be two fold
1) The ACC has been one of the slowest conferences in the country this year.  6 of the 15 teams are ranked 300 or worse in possessions per game.  (Well i cheated Pitt is 297th, but whatever)
2) To me, it still comes down to points per possession, because the point of the game is to outscore the other team.  So a lot of games, maybe we have slowed the other team down.  (I'd also argue a lot of times teams are going out of their way to slow the game down against us, but I get your point).  Well that means the number of possessions we have on offense to score more than the other team is limited as well.  To me, allowing 70 points on 75 possessions is better than allowing 54 points on 54 possessions (what we did yesterday) because I'd rather have 75 possessions to score 71 points than 54 to score 55.

And I'm not knocking our defense, we're second in the league in ACC play in points per possession.  But the slow pace of games has definitely played a role in the low number of points allowed.
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