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Message: [QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 167467, member: 767"] Yeah, I believe the number was like .92 or something. That was pretty jarring to me; .92 is a pretty poor number in the context of overall offense, but it goes to show how much harder it is to score in the half court. Well, I do think you have cherry picked your data,though it doesn't necessarily mean you don't have a point. And for the most part, I've been agreeing with you; the half court offense, at the very least, seems like it's stagnant and not all that good. (Pitt, for the game, we lit them up. I know you said after th e first tv TO, and the numbers would be worse without their best 5 minutes, but take out the best 5 minutes for any team, you know?) As I said, the half court offense does feel stagnant, but it's probably pretty good. Definitely not great. And we are a pretty good offensive rebounding team (though the loss of Fab may change that) which helps as well, and we don't turn the ball over, so while it may look bad a lot of the time, at the very least, we are getting shots up, which gives us a chance. Obviously, we lack the big man you can dump it into and get a bucket or a foul. I think, for the most part, it's going to be hard for teams to slow us down too much. ND did slow us down, but we turned them over 18 times in a 62 possession game, including 9 steals, which is basically right at our average of one every 7 possessions or so. (They slowed the game down possession wise, but we were still getting our TO is what I mean) Basically, at this point, it's nearly February. I think at this point we're going to force a ton of TO against whoever we play, which is going to fuel our break. We're not going to turn the ball over much, giving us more shots than the other team. And the ones that we miss, we're going to get a high % of them. So while the half court offense is unlikely to have the fluidity we'd like to see, I am not too worried by it. (I reserve the right to change this opinion tomorrow ar about 3). [/QUOTE]

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