CardiacCuse
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well theyve been getting better on the boards and ironing out kinks...to me the defense is good. defense won the gtown game. the defense looks worse than it is bc the team basically capitulated in the 3 blowout losses and stopped trying. (giving up vs adversity is a different and important problem)I think the defense is only a little bit less than average. They give up a lot of offensive rebounds, but they get a lot of steals and blocks. The offense is still very 1-dimensional and reliant on heroic performances - and it shows.
It's not a direct correlation, but better offenses tend to have higher assist percentages (more FGA off a pass).
These are the P5 teams this season and it tracks. The teams in SU's quadrant, poor O-rating and poor assist percentages are not good teams. Most of the top-10 teams are in the upper right quadrant (higher O-rating, higher assist percentage). Baylor has a slight lower than average assist %, but their O-rating is the best in the P5.
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not getting assists is huge. it makes scoring unsustainable. a team like UVA forces SU to make assists to score and they cant do it. good defenses force opponents to play together as a team to score.
one thing I was hoping to see the end of with JB leaving was the 1 on 1 offense...but alas, not yet, apparently.