Looking ahead, I'm wondering how Kennedy is going to be able to keep that up with the departure of both Williams and Trocha. I've heard good things about Nebo in terms of his quickness and shot blocking ability but haven't seen it in action, and this incoming class, so far, isn't looking like we'll see any additions there.

bobinator said:

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Some cool stuff here. I'd be interested to see those splits later in the season as Williams has more games under his belt.

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Nice find! That goes along with BK's scheme of taking away team's open looks inside the arc and not worrying too much about shots outside the 3 point arc. What we're doing defensively isn't so obvious to the naked eye, but it's giving other team's coaches fits in trying to figure out how to score.

Case in point, Carr went off in the first half making incredible perimeter shots, but they were contested and he couldn't match the same production in the 2nd half because he wasn't taking high percentage shots near the rim. It also didn't hurt that Gilder was on him like white on rice, but Penn St couldn't figure out how to make shots inside the arc either.

very good read.

According to hoop-math, we're currently 52nd nationally at preventing shots at the rim, against a difficult schedule with Robert Williams in and out of the lineup. Have to think we'll end up close to top 25 by the end of the year again.

The article says we had a FG% defense of ~.560 last year. Hoop-math had us at .643, which is a pretty big difference. Does the RTC article say where they get the data from?

jck said:

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Hey I'm actually the author. Appreciate all the feedback. You guys did have FG% defense of 56% at the rim last season. The 64.3% is offense (sometimes Hoop-Math reverts back to offense when parsing through data).

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Hey! Looks like you're right, it does appear to randomly transpose the O & D numbers.

We gotta do a better job getting defensive rebounds. That will kill us if we can't get that fixed.

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A long, athletic team fresh off a Sweet Sixteen appearance and returning a likely lottery pick proceeded to suffer a painstaking nine single-digit losses to NCAA Tournament teams.

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Who was our returning lottery pick last year?

Robert Williams.

More of a football guy, I take it.

ConLaw said:

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Robert Williams.

More of a football guy, I take it.

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Robert Williams was a fish last year, not a returning player.

That article was red meat for a basketball junkie

Junkhead said:

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Stick to lawyering, smart ass.

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When keeping it real goes wrong