Friday, February 1, 2008

Hard to understand

It is hard to imagine how this team has won as many games as it has. The leading scorer is averaging 9.0 ppg, and the leading rebounder is at 5.4 rpg. There are so many things that this team does not do well at all. I guess the answer is that the things this team does well, it does very well. 1. Perimeter defense. Opponents shoot only 28.5% from the 3-point line. Any coach would take that any day. 2. Team rebounding. Even with the Big Ticket (Mike Smith) our leading rebounder at only 5.4 rpg, we still out-rebound our opponents 37.9 to 31.2, which is a sizeable margin. 3. Balanced scoring. This has to be a hard team to prepare for in that regard at least. You never know who will be the scorer on a given night. Very few team’s eighth and ninth leading scorers average as much as ours.

Now, those may be very small claims to fame, but I don’t know how else to explain a 14-7 record with our kind of stat sheet.

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