That is awesome

bobinator said:

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He was visibly pissed when Clemence took that midrange jumper late

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I was gonna post that I only remember one shot, and that Clemence shot was it. I thought, Bucky ain't gonna like that one!

I honestly have this style. But I hope we win.

Not upset but just curious as to why? I think we need a little better athletes at some spots to make it better but it is pleasing to watch.

I just wish sometimes in the half court they wouldn't gamble on steals as much but everything else was good

Data people hate floaters too. Think Jay Wright was one of the first coaches to outright tell his guys not to shoot them but they're one of the least efficient shots in basketball.

It depends on the player, over the last decade or so guards are routinely hitting >50% on such attempts and NBA league average is about 7% higher than two point shots outside the paint. It's a way more efficient shot for the players who are good at it than mid range jumpers.

Well yeah NBA players are better at it I'm just talking about college basketball. One of the data nerds made a whole video about it lately but now I can't remember which one.

Fun to watch!

Basketball hasnt been played "the way it was intended" for 125+ years

That's a good point... These games against small schools usually make our bigs appear better than they are... especially if our guy is relatively undersized for major conference basketball.. Ex) Coleman... He tore up small school competition generally speaking..

You really don't know what you have with the bigs until conference play...

8 of the SEC teams that played last night scored 90+. I'm tempering my expectations for the season. An at-large bid for this season would be incredible given the starting point.

If the team can get healthy and continue gelling, I like the chances of maybe a top 8 SEC finish. From what I hear about Bucky, he is into the details and has a good staff to grow the team.

Infection_Ag11 said:

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From a purely analytic perspective, you should never be taking mid range jump shots at any level of basketball. Apart from beating the buzzer/shot clock every attempt should be a dunk, layup, floater/hook in the paint or a three.

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Yes, but as Nate Oates may realize someday, teams can pack the paint and defend the perimeter and leave the mid-range wide open. Good defensive teams can push those shooters back another step and turn 40% into 30%. Assuming 40 3-point shots, that's a difference of 12 points that has to be made up. Assuming one extra miss get and offensive rebound and a put-back, that's 10 points to the negative. The point is, you have to be willing and able to make elbow jumpers deep in the torunament.

Never take the midrange seems to ignore the situation. If it's a tight game and it's the only open shot you can get that's different than up by 30 with time remaining on shot clock.

The thing about offensive analytics is the defense is privy to the data as well.

Mid range jumpers are low value shots, so the defense leaves them open.

Yes and no, IMO. If you're going to drop what we dropped to bring in the talent that we brought in, we should at least be pretty close to the tournament.

Proposition Joe said:

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The thing about offensive analytics is the defense is privy to the data as well.

Mid range jumpers are low value shots, so the defense leaves them open.

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And therefore they become higher value.

Looks like we will at least have a fun team

Really Deep SEC this year and our team is all new except one, expectations tempered until we play Sunday.