Even by my own standards, this is an extremely nerdy post. But I wanted to quantify how rare MU's gap between offensive and defensive time of possession was, and it indeed lived up to the title's billing.
https://painttouches.com/2024/02/23/on-marquettes-historic-time-of-possession-gap/ (https://painttouches.com/2024/02/23/on-marquettes-historic-time-of-possession-gap/)
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A shorter shot clock would benefit MU tremendously.
32.6% of MU's shots happen in transition (with a eFG% of 59%). In comparison, 21.9% of MU's opponents' shots happen in transition.
Transition is defined as first 10 seconds.
Quote from: The Sultan of Semantics on February 23, 2024, 03:34:12 PM
A shorter shot clock would benefit MU tremendously.
Yet last years team, with OMax's full-court pressure help, effectively created a shorter shot clock in the half court. And this year's Defense is ranked even higher. Your point is still correct. Would be scary good with a shorter clock.
Every game I watch how fast Mu shoots the ball and when they are clicking, it was pretty amazing.
I know we can't be good at everything...but think how scary MU would be if we had slightly better defensive rebounding? So heartbreaking when they force a shot as the shot clock goes off only to give up 2 points to an offensive board.
Quote from: mu_eyeballs on February 23, 2024, 09:48:08 PM
I know we can't be good at everything...but think how scary MU would be if we had slightly better defensive rebounding? So heartbreaking when they force a shot as the shot clock goes off only to give up 2 points to an offensive board.
Happened a few times in the @UConn game, and some of those were their center doing imitation-Oso tip-outs that simply got lucky. When Oso does it, it's crafty, extremely well-directed and usually ends up in the hands of a MU perimeter player for an extended Marquette possession. When Klingan did it, he was kind of hitting and hoping and got good results more often than not.
Quote from: mu_eyeballs on February 23, 2024, 09:48:08 PM
I know we can't be good at everything...but think how scary MU would be if we had slightly better defensive rebounding? So heartbreaking when they force a shot as the shot clock goes off only to give up 2 points to an offensive board.
Yeah, there are few bigger backbreakers than that - working your ass off to.force a terrible shot late in the clock and then giving up an easy 2 on the O board. Only thing worse os when they get o board, run another long clock w late miss and then give up the 2