Because the other team never has possession on an offensive rebound. It’s pretty simple to understand.
Dropped from 16th to 17th on Kenpom
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I’ll have to wait until we play a legit good defensive team to determine if we can get by with playing defense 1/2 of the game.
We literate just beat Miss St that has a legit good defense.
You can't really judge our defense from this game. It looked pretty good the first half. The team just coasted on cruise control the second half of the game. Wait until we are in a tight game the entire game to determine if our defense is improving.
You mean like UNC who is ranked 4th in defense?
See my post, UNC is 4th and MSU is 15th. Trolls will be trolls. Doesn't get much more legit than 4th.
Exactly, two games in a row we are up
Huge and coasted making the numbers look worse than they were
We literally just let the Miss St guy lay it in 4 straight possessions at end
I think the team just quit once they got up huge. Gave up like 35 points in what was effectively junk time once they went up 30. Not gonna bother reading much into it other than a learning opportunity that our guys have to play every minute of every game.
Nice that all factions of the fan base got something they could enjoy today. 😃
What are you even on about with this? The KenPom numbers absolutely account for offensive rebounding. It’s how the Oscar led teams had solid offensive efficiency numbers despite often failing the eye test.
If you mean the formula doesn’t consider an offensive rebound to start a brand new possession separate from the initial missed shot, nobody categorizes things that way. Your complaint is meritless.
Come on. You know as well as I do neither is on the same level as Auburn or TN defensively.
No but TN and Auburn will want to beat us much worse than what UNC or Miss St wanted to.
I have no idea. I mean you say that and UNC lit the sh*t up on Tennessee. They scored 61 in a half.
Sounds like backtracking to me. You said wait to see until we play a legit top defense. We already did and won. Just accept the checkmate and move on.
Simple fact is we will drop 90 on Auburn and Tennessee just like everyone else.
I know TN and Auburn both will be out for blood. Those 2 games on the road will be the hardest two of the regular season.
I know we all know it’s true.
I think we have a chance to score 90 on TN at home but not on the road or not at Auburn.
Yes. But we are TN and Auburn’s Super Bowl every season since Pearl has been there.
There is no magical limiting factor or quirk preventing a team from winning the championship.
Take the 2014 team, for example. As an 8 seed, they played passable defense in two games, one of which was in the championship, and won the rest through brute offensive force. They won 3 games despite their opponent scoring 1.2 ppp or more.
The "championship teams need x quality to win" tends to also correlate with just being an elite team. Most elite teams are very good on offense and defense. That's why they are elite.
Take the 2014 team, for example. As an 8 seed, they played passable defense in two games, one of which was in the championship, and won the rest through brute offensive force. They won 3 games despite their opponent scoring 1.2 ppp or more.
The "championship teams need x quality to win" tends to also correlate with just being an elite team. Most elite teams are very good on offense and defense. That's why they are elite.
The 2014 UCONN team had the fortune of having Cal as the opposing coach in the NC game. That’s a pretty big advantage even with Kevin Ollie as your coach.
So there are a lot of shitty defenses out there, and we still can't break into the Top 50.
That says more about the road environment at Tennessee and Auburn than it does about their defense.
Both have good (efficient) offenses to go along with elite defenses. Typically that means less points off turnovers and less points in transition for their opponents.
I believe that will be true. That is where poor defense will hurt, the tournaments. I think many of us expected defense to improve a lot if we ever saw our 3 seven-footers on the floor. Cal has a window to fix this problem, hope he does.
And we will deal with it. We’re everybody’s Super Bowl when we roll into town. Come on.
Meanwhile bama lost by double digits and the computers still love them
It’s more to do with they have 6 losses and have lost to very good team they have played
Also Mississippi State was ranked 8th in defensive efficiency going into our game against them.
This offense is pretty special. I mean special. Games are fun. The goal is to win not improve on KenPom
Cal is fortunate to coach in a football conference.
UK is the only school in the SEC that cares more about basketball than football outside of Vandy that doesn’t care about either.
statements like this make no sense, If you wait until march to worry about Kenpom, its literally to late. The rankings are determined by what you did DURING the season. Like yesterdays game and the one before that and the after that. Waiting until march is like waiting until march to start conditioning for games. Makes ZERO sense.
