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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1346609, member: 289"] The team stats don't mean it's better for KJ to take 20 footers than 15 footers. If he was 7 for 35 from three and 34 for 98 from mid-range, he would have been 20 for 98 if those shots had been three pointers. That produces 8 fewer points. And if the other team got 60& of the additional 14 rebounds, that's at least 8 possessions and 8 more points. So it wouldn't help Kaleb to shoot from the arc because fo the team stat or some chart about how well all the players in the country shoot. One more salvo before I move on to other things: Some years back I did an analysis of 20 years worth of SU stats, ranking the teams by winning percentage and then by every other stat I could think of. I them determined the average differential in the rankings to see which ranking more approximated the winning percentage ranking. This was the result: - 2 point field goal percentage had an average differential ranking of 4.25 - Rebounding had an average differential ranking of 4.70 - Percentage of field goal attempts from three point range had an average differential ranking of 4.98 - Turnovers had an average differential ranking of 5.41 - Steals had an average differential ranking of 5.93 - 3 point field goal percentage had an average differential ranking of 6.14 - Blocks had an average differential ranking of 6.84 - Percentage of made field goals that were assisted had an average differential ranking of 8.27 The most important hing was to make and prevent two point shots. The next most important thing was rebounding the ball after a miss. The third most important thing was to force the other team to attempt three point shots, rather than two point shots. By looking at charts like the one that opened this threat and then insisting that your players shoot from three point range even if that's not what they are good at and insisting that your three point shooters just shoot from three point range and not use their range to set up other shots, you are playing into the hands of the other team. And that, of course is the whole concept of the zone, which is why when I asked Jim Boeheim about this on his show, he agreed with me. [/QUOTE]

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