[Paint Touches] On MU's historic time of possession gap

[PaintTouches]

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/

[The Sultan]

A shorter shot clock would benefit MU tremendously.

[Dr. Blackheart]

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.

[GoFastAndWin]

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.

[Goose]

Every game I watch how fast Mu shoots the ball and when they are clicking, it was pretty amazing.

[mu_eyeballs]

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.

[GoFastAndWin]

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.

[1SE]

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