Originally posted by wildcatsboston1984:
Originally posted by BigBlueFanGA:
Originally posted by Dutycat:
Originally posted by BigBlueFanGA:
I have significant issues with these "adjusted" ratings. It all hinges on the SOS myth. He would do better just putting up straight numbers and let fans decide on their own how to adjust them. He still shows us with a NCSOS of 105. That is patently ridiculous. It also means many of his other stats are just as inappropriately skewed.
We have a big disadvantage with these strength of schedule rankings in that we can't play ourselves.
Ha, Yep. So I was curious and went to ESPN to see their raw stats for pts, reds, blah, blah, blah. I expected to solid numbers. Nope. They are terrible in almost every category. They can shoot from 2.........and that's about it. They can't rebound, get assists or turnovers. They hold teams to low scoring, but that is more a reflection of who they play. They are about our level shooting 3's.
Lowest turnover rate in the country.
23rd in effective field goal %.
9th in 2P%.
14th in FT%
Kentucky is:
40th in turnover rate
71st in effective field goal %
43rd in 2P%
below the national average in 3P%
102nd in FT%
Can't rebound? They rank 3rd in the country for defensive rebound %. Kentucky only ranks 210 and is below the national average.
wildcatsboston, eh? You misspelled "badgersboston", you're absolutely blowing Wisconsin right now.
A few of our offensive stats are skewed,
especially FT%.
Anytime we run the lineup with Towns at the 5, Lyles at the 4, then 3 of our guards, our overall FG% increases exponentially. Ball movement is better, take care of the ball more, better free throw shooting, and for the record, we're running this lineup a lot more lately.
Our FT% is really spread out among a lot of players (because we play so many guys), but we have a lineup where we can put 5 guys in, in a late game situation, and drill free throws if needed at a 78% clip (Ulis, both Harrison twins, Lyles, Towns, and we can take Booker off the bench if needed, he shoots 82% from the line).
And we've been below the national average in 3P% forever. This is a streaky team, we've had a cold streak, hit a hot streak for a long time, went cold again, and I imagine we'll get hot again.
Now, the turnover rate. You can complain about turnover rate if you want. It makes you look pretty silly, especially since our coach was literally complaining that we haven't been getting enough turnovers by the end of games. Plus, we have a very solid assist-to-turnover ratio. Had one all season, and with the improved play of Andrew as of late, I would think that it's gotten better.
As for UK's defensive rebounding percentage, that's mainly because of our transition offense. We could fix that defensive rebounding number, but would have to really take away from our transition offense, which we shouldn't do. When other teams get defensive rebounds, more often than not, they have to take the ball out and reset their offense because they immediately have 2 of our shot-blockers on them, and our guards are all sprinting back to defensive spots.
You also didn't accredit our team for being the 3rd ranked offensive rebounding team in the country, collecting 40% of our missed shots.
The two schools ahead of us are Baylor, and a mid-major, who both get 41% of missed shots. An unnoticeable difference.
So, all that said, feel free to show defensive stats as well. Since you're feeling that kinda way.
