- Feb 12, 2009
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Two things are really killing us right now in Atlantic 10 play: turnovers and interior scoring.
23% offensive turnover rate ranks last in the A-10 outside of SLU, who is 14th momentarily because they haven't played a game. That's a brutal stat. Basically we give our opponent the ball (or they take it...some combination of that), one of essentially every four trips down the court.
46.9% two-point percentage currently ranks 12th in the Atlantic 10 and again, because SLU has yet to play a game in the A-10.
The long and short of that combination is we don't make it easy on ourselves. No easy buckets in A-10 play and we ramp up our degree of difficulty with the turnovers.
Combine those key negatives and you get our offense that is scoring 0.952 points per possession in the league play. That ranks only ahead of winless Saint Joseph's, Duquesne and Fordham. The team with 0.952 points per possession offensive efficiencies on the season, Florida Gulf Coast, ranks 306th nationally in that stat. So our offense in league play is playing to the caliber of the 306th worst offense in the country, relatively speaking.
I don't quite understand how the wheels have fallen off so badly there, how we've been so much worse against these teams than we were against top-100 squads to start the season.
23% offensive turnover rate ranks last in the A-10 outside of SLU, who is 14th momentarily because they haven't played a game. That's a brutal stat. Basically we give our opponent the ball (or they take it...some combination of that), one of essentially every four trips down the court.
46.9% two-point percentage currently ranks 12th in the Atlantic 10 and again, because SLU has yet to play a game in the A-10.
The long and short of that combination is we don't make it easy on ourselves. No easy buckets in A-10 play and we ramp up our degree of difficulty with the turnovers.
Combine those key negatives and you get our offense that is scoring 0.952 points per possession in the league play. That ranks only ahead of winless Saint Joseph's, Duquesne and Fordham. The team with 0.952 points per possession offensive efficiencies on the season, Florida Gulf Coast, ranks 306th nationally in that stat. So our offense in league play is playing to the caliber of the 306th worst offense in the country, relatively speaking.
I don't quite understand how the wheels have fallen off so badly there, how we've been so much worse against these teams than we were against top-100 squads to start the season.