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[QUOTE="malpearl31, post: 2969203, member: 6520"]
So I think your general point - that our Offense needs to be better - is correct.  But I think that some of the statistics you're using to make your argument are flawed, at best.

Specifically, the Scoring Defense and Scoring Offense stats you're using are not adjusted for tempo, they're "raw" statistics.  So Duke - which has the 5th best AdjD from KenPom - ranks 70th in Scoring Defense (because they play at a faster pace - the 18th fastest in Div 1 this year).  And Virginia, which has the 2nd best AdjO from KenPom this season - they rank 195th (!) in your Scoring Offense metric (precisely because they play at the slowest pace in all of Div 1).

Do yourself a favor and check out statistics that factor the pace of play into things.  Making judgments off of the raw (unadjusted for tempo) rankings is equivalent to just looking at a baseball player's Batting Averag to determine their worth.  Was David Eckstein a good offensive player in 2006 when he batted .292 for St. Louis?  (Hint: The answer rhymes with 'blow'.)
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