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[QUOTE="DomeHolmes, post: 5564738, member: 10113"]
In a few different threads, there have been talks about our offense and whether its under performing, performing adequately considering our opponents slowing the game down and rebounding well, or performing well.

According to Kenpom, our schedule has been the easiest of the power five, and our defense is number 1, so so far so good there.

Against the easiest schedule, our offense is actually 34th out of the power five teams in offensive efficiency.  (PPP).   Roughly middle of the pack.   Again, considering our strength of schedule is the lowest of the power five, we’re probably somewhere between 40 and 50 right now as far as offensive efficiency, all things being equal.   That being said, we still look pretty good offensively.  But there’s lots of work to be done.   I think our defense will wind up being a top 20% of power five defenses and if our offense could get there too then we are a contender.

Here are the things that can’t help but get better:

-We are playing 10 new players.  So they should continue to get more comfortable with each other.

-We have five freshmen and sophomores playing key roles.  Again that will improve.

-JJ, (according to experts), our best offensive player, has yet to play.  And Kingz and George have played well but could still play much better on offense.

Here’s what has to get better:

- Offensive rebounding.  We’ve played smaller, overmatched teams and we are only 277th in offensive rebounding.  We may be focusing on getting back on defense, but one of our bigs has to crash, and at times there is nobody crashing the off offensive glass at all.  A few offensive rebounds and put backs increases your offensive efficiency.

-Free throws.  Need to get to 70%.   Last game Kingz 0/2 FT (and 1/5 from 3) can’t happen vs P5 for a sniper.

-shot selection.   The team needs the same judgment Kiyan has shown.

So certainly the potential is there and I think to some extent we’ve passed the eye test, but the numbers dictate there’s  a lot of work to do.
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