So clear last night. Rutgers has more "talent" across the team, but got whipped. Big strong athletic guys. That don't know how to play together. Yet anyway. Easier to be cocky when you've got the best pg in college hoops. And when their best player (best player in the league?) is not himself.
So many missed open shots last night after B had set them up. He could have had 20+ assists last night.
I listened to the UCLA coach rant posted on the page. He has, without a doubt, some of the best talent in the country. But part of the issue is that in BB, unlike FB IMO, you have so MANY players out there that can be absolute stat machines nowadays. So how do you winnow out the winners from all of the talent? Props to Matt, he's gotten very, very good at doing that. And a lot of coaches are going to have to try to adjust to doing the same thing, or you'll see a school buying the talent and calling for the coaches head when they don't make it past the 1st or second round.
Completely agree with this. Against all but the most elite defenses, this offense would be rolling if Smith plays as he has, Trey stays out of foul trouble and shooters hit open shots.
Trey getting into foul trouble was a blessing in disguise. It allowed/forced more furst mins and other guys into the rotation that maybe don’t play as much mins.
In ALL statistical studies or modeling where there is any repeated measure on a variable in the model there will exist an error term...that is some difference between "values" being measured under what is declared under a certain condition. Many times that error is not only measurement error, but unknown variable or variables NOT measured. This is true for Braden...not all his value can be calculated due to only those metrics measured, such as grit, intelligent play, leadership, control of the game, being in the middle of the action continuously and obviously the much fewer assist should players shoot better.
This is a bit of what I tried saying on this moments ago. Let's say we were interested in the relationship or more accurate measurement of a weight and height. So we have a scatterplot of various weights for given heights...maybe 5'8" 6'4" or whatever. We plot that relationship on the data and we see an upward trend as one gets taller they generally get heavier. However, we also notice that some 6' people are heavier than 6'3" people and so forth and so even though there is an upward trend there is a lot of variation about "centerline" of all the data. Those different values for each height setting creates an error term and that error term or large variation makes predicting with accuracy hard.
My main concern after last night is the missed free throws. TKR specifically needs to get it figured out.
Not sure I've ever seen a scorer (here) that is so up and down on FT's. ok, mostly down-ish. But several times this season he's looked Good shooting it and I've relaxed and thought great he's figured it out and then a game later he looks dyslexic shooting it. His arm movements get stiff and elongated when he's off, and how much wrist flick is inconsistant. Just looks discombobulated. ???
I don't get it. In addition to the things you mention he falls away on half of them. Furst FT are looking weird too. Seems like he is releasing the ball under his chin. Robbie does half our games couldn't he work this guys on a repeatable and reliable form? It will bite us at some point.
ainter's discussion of portal players is why I always shake my head and smirk when I see tge all-knowing posts saying "Painter should have filled this need or that" from the portal. More times than not portal additions turn out to be meh or disrupt the makeup of what you already have. Few coaches are going to make living by restocking each year from the portal and molding it into a winning team.
Except no one here said that. Some folks just love to troll posters, and that's fine, but everyone knew we had no room this year so no one said Painter should have done anything this season. We not only had no room, we were over signed until the Spring.The original post re
Sometimes I think Braden's high assist stats contribute to a lesser functioning offense. As you said, he's always in the action and I see other players standing in the corners not really certain where he's going to be or how to react to where he is. Which to me, leads to a lack of movement and other players not being involved in the offense...who should be.
How in the world does high assists lead to lack of movement and others not being in the action? The literal result of a player getting assists is him getting other players into the action.
that is true (ball players in corners). He is a ball dominate pg that the coaches believe that his decision making is great and so they want him controlling the game. FWIW, In a given time frame...say a second, there are only at max four players doing much and actually in that split second there are only two outside the ball handler. Many teams put people in the corners and spread the court knowing they are there to reduce the help defense by spacing the court. I type a lot already and so commenting appropriately as I wish cannot take place, because I have a few things to do before the game today. Does Purdue have the other ball handler's to have all involved should a coach want that? If not and the reduced clock to shoot within say a 15 or so second time frame does make it hard inside any possession.
hmm, I think it probably is true. If Catchings was the new guy that can get his own shot and if DJ had continued to be a presence at the rim and shooting it outside to open the middle for Trey against 4's. 2 more bigs up front. One a dynamic (maybe) and tall swingman.
Run hard, cut to the basket and keep your hands up and ready and your eyes on the ball at all times.
