It's like we are playing football and just leave our defense on the field on offense level gap 🤣
We could be if we just……..
We actually did a good job making them second half I think? Missed at least 3 easy ones first half
We do have the worst offense ranking of any team with a top 10 defense in the kenpom era. However there are more of these kinds of teams than you might think in general:
our layups def started falling last couple of games but if they were going in all season we are easily a top 150-200 offense.
Our offense was sh!t again tonight. It is a big ask to expect the D to be this good everynight.
Yes! If we had the 175th best offense in the country, we’d be a solid 8/9 seed projection in the tournament right now.
I feel like Caleb is more lockdown than Mag is, at least on non-very small guards. But Mag is a different level in a team sense and is an incredible rebounder as well. And I’d argue he’s still learning the game and becoming more impactful each and every night
My understanding is that to win a game, the sum of your offense and defense has to be better than the sum of the other team’s offense and defense. Apparently this is measured by the number of points each team scores.
It is the endless mindless turnovers that never give us a chance and against good teams we cannot overcome. The last 2 first halves against Michigan and Maryland we have 10 and 12 first half turnovers , which kills the efficiency and makes it 300 in the country. Most of the turnovers not all but almost a great amount of them are unforced. We have to play smarter.
Keeping Mag is critical for next season if we want to make a run
I've been trying to convince people of this for ages but there are some on the board who actually don't agree!
We don't actually turn the ball over all that much (we are #165 in TO% which is just mediocre). We are #98 in offensive rebounding percentage (pretty good) and #156 in FTR (mediocre). Where we continually fail is.. shooting. We are #358 in effective field goal percentage.
Keep us posted when the math gets so bad that we’re officially better off without 3s. We must be getting closer…. Dipped under 28% from 3 on the season. Hyatt the only player with a meaningful number of perimeter attempts over 30%. Yuck
You can’t be officially better off without threes because there’s a game theory element to how the defense plays. We do have a slightly better eFG% on twos though
I mean at some point there’s a break even though right? If we played 5 Wolfs we wouldn’t want any of them chucking up 3 correct?
At some point, yes, but it’s not as simple as looking at your current shooting percentages. It’s also going to be depend on your shooting percentages relative to each other; since we are pretty much equally atrocious from three and two I don’t see any compelling reason why our optimal strategy would be much different from that of a normal team.
Drives me nuts that we struggle so much with lay ups ! Can’t take it anymore.
I watched mag get crushed to floor and n9 foul called then on the other side of the court they call a ticky tacky foul on us. The cliff foul from a the far away ref was when I said the fix has to be in.
If I didn't had the letters es at the end of my name my whole life people would call me JAM
I mean - we’re bad from 2 but we’re definitely worse from 3. The percentages don’t reflect all the shooting foul calls we’ve drawn on missed 2 pointers wiped from the statistics.
