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[QUOTE="OrangeFoo, post: 1611612, member: 210"]
It's not just since 2012... We've been more often than not a below average offensive team since at least the turn of the century. Here are the stats to prove it stolen from a different post I made:

SU PPG SU PPG Ranking
2001 - 2002 73.7 111
2002 - 2003 80 14
2003 - 2004 73 90
2004 - 2005 75.5 36
2005 - 2006 72.9 90
2006 - 2007 75.5 52
2007 - 2008 78.5 25
2008 - 2009 81.8 8
2009 - 2010 81.5 6
2010 - 2011 73 60
2011 - 2012 74 39
2012 - 2013 71.3 80
2013 - 2014 68 253
2014 - 2015 68 170
2015 - 2016 72 209

9 out of 15 years we've ranked outside of the top 50 in terms of points per game and I bet if you look at data from the 90s our ranking is going to be even worse. The trend since the turn of the decade has been quite alarming. I think this data backs up my original point which is that the identity our program is defense not offense and I for one would like to see it change because I don't think you can win titles as a defense team. Basically our strategy is to always have a solid D, fit players to that D and then find one or two good offensive players to get output. I don't think this strategy will work in the ACC... there are too many good coaches and good players. We need to go back to developing solid offensive depth and backing that up with the D not the other way around. Luckily this year seems to be the start of the strategy with putting 4 "shooters" on the court, unfortunately we've no developed so many players the last few years offensively and we've had losses that have prevented us from seeing the benefits of that strategy.
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