Lots of denial, lots of ball pressure and a ton of energy hopefully!
Illini Basketball 2017-2018
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Lots of denial, lots of ball pressure and a ton of energy hopefully!
DB11Headband
- Chicago Burbs
The minutes are there, and he should start from the get-go... I think those numbers are very attainable for MS.
They were last in their conference last year in points allowed.
Where were they in points scored, more scored than allowed, just asking?
ChazzReinhold
Mom! The Meatloaf!
If you score within 7 seconds, the other team will have a lot of possessions to score.
It’s first 7 or last 7. Balances out as the game goes along. However, lots of pressure on the defense to sprint back, this fatiguing them as the game goes on.
There’s usually short clips attached to these things: http://www.championshipproductions....-Offenses-with-Pressure-Defense_BD-04914.html
Also
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2UrSm_cqUFM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6KrUiT50d8I
That’s concerning, but when you play with tempo a much more interesting stat to look at is ppp allowed. I watched the Michigan game in tournament so I’m gonna assume that was awful too
Oldtoysrock
- Sarasota, Florida
All speculation from Piper is that they'd like to Redshirt Matic. He has more information than I do, but I would be surprised if by year three or four Matic doesn't get a contract offer to play professionally in Europe and not be around for four years, let alone 5.
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blackdog
- Champaign
He could get a pro contract now. Big reason he wanted to come over is for a degree
http://www.scout.com/Article/Illini-hoops-add-2017-Slovenian-big-man-Matic-Vesel-74902877
"Vesel's mom was also big on her son earning an education versus signing a professional contract as a 19-year-old. Illinois provided that opportunity as well."
Has there been any info on the Bragging Rights Game tickets?????
His defenses have usually been good. The year before last, SFA averaged over 80 and gave up 63.
Last year, OSU led the league in scoring at almost 86 a game but gave up over 78. Definitely more up and down the court than we are used to.
I wonder, though, what the stats are if we factor out the horrible 0-6 start in league play? After he made the adjustments to "right the ship" so to speak.
Reading that tweet where Underwood said Mark Smith could have a Jason Kidd like impact lead me to look at some stats. J-Kidd did this in his two years in college:
Fresh: 32mpg, 53/28/65, 13pts, 5reb, 7.7ast, 3.8stl, 3.9to
Soph: 35mpg, 54/36/69, 16.7pts, 6.9reb, 9.1ast, 3stl, 4.3to, PAC10 POY
I think it's fair to say Mark Smith won't average those assist and steal numbers and that his shooting numbers from 3 and the free throw line will be better. But if he's anywhere close to that, we'll be in for a treat. Year one, that Cal team made it to the Sweet 16 and he was the USBWA Freshman of the Year. Year two, they lost in the first round but J-Kidd was a consensus All-American and went 2nd overall in the NBA Draft.
Fresh: 32mpg, 53/28/65, 13pts, 5reb, 7.7ast, 3.8stl, 3.9to
Soph: 35mpg, 54/36/69, 16.7pts, 6.9reb, 9.1ast, 3stl, 4.3to, PAC10 POY
I think it's fair to say Mark Smith won't average those assist and steal numbers and that his shooting numbers from 3 and the free throw line will be better. But if he's anywhere close to that, we'll be in for a treat. Year one, that Cal team made it to the Sweet 16 and he was the USBWA Freshman of the Year. Year two, they lost in the first round but J-Kidd was a consensus All-American and went 2nd overall in the NBA Draft.
I was looking for some ppp allowed. stats but didn’t find anything. The most advanced stuff I found was here. Lots of breakdowns, just no team ppp allowed, unless I missed it.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/oklahoma-state/2017.html
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/oklahoma-state/2017.html
KenPom has ppp. Sports Reference shows defensive 2 and 3pt shooting %'s. OSU last year allowed opponents to shoot 52.7% on 2 pts (312th in country) and 36.7% on 3 pt (279th in country). Both stats are really telling. Not impressive defensively.
I think we are getting way ahead of ourselves regarding Mark Smith. Can we at least let him play a half dozen games.
skyIdub
Winged Warrior
I may have posted something similar a while back, but again, I am just fine watching defensive growing pains if we have exciting basketball games again.
It will be much easier to be patient with this staff if we are playing competitive games and losing 90-85 instead of 75-59.
I think we may well end up being more competent defensively than his OSU team from last year.
It will be much easier to be patient with this staff if we are playing competitive games and losing 90-85 instead of 75-59.
I think we may well end up being more competent defensively than his OSU team from last year.
Thanks. Looked on KenPom. He had osu at number one in pp100p, which we already heard a lot about. 126 points per 100 or 1.26ppp. Defensively, ok st was 154th. 103.5 pp100p. Or basically 1.04 per possession. Also had them at 66th in tempo.
Underwood’s last year at SFA they were 57th in offense per 100 possions, scoring 111.1 per 100. Defensively they were 38th, allowing 95.5 per 100.
2015 @ SFA: 111.7 per 100p on offense for a rank of 32. 98.1 per 100p on defense for a rank of 98.
First year at SFA: 111.7 pp100p again, but this time only to rank 57, when the year after it was 32nd. 100.9 pp100p on defense for a rank of 105.
Underwood teams average an offensive ranking of 36.75 (heavily aided by that number 1 last year, 48.66 if you only look at the SFA years), and a defensive ranking of 98.75.
I think we are getting way ahead of ourselves regarding Mark Smith. Can we at least let him play a half dozen games.
Well you better or want to get excited about some player on the team if not Smith because the season is here and we need someone to get this BU train steam rolling!!!
I think we are getting way ahead of ourselves regarding Mark Smith. Can we at least let him play a half dozen games.
Oh I totally agree. I was just looking into what our coach said and how good Jason Kidd actually was (spoiler alert, really gd good), which anyone would have a hard time replicating.
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