If there ever was any doubt that our guards are doing exactly what Fox wants them to do when they drive to the hoop, this ESPN highlight video from a Georgia huddle early in the first half of the Winthrop game catches our coach ordering the players to:
"... move your feet, call out the screens, wall them up. All right, we just went jumper, jumper, jumper .... no, no, no ... it's got to be inside, inside, inside right now! Whether you throw it in there or do it like he just did and you drive it in there "
While the style is brutally dull because it draws foul after foul, it is also efficiently effective. We scored 28 points in the paint against Winthrop, a powerful number given that we scored a total of only 21 field goals from the floor. The even better news is that 17 of those 21 baskets were scored off assists. We are a good team when we move the ball and pass generously. Not so much when we dribble or try to create our own shots.
It shouldn't surprise that we scored more points against Winthrop from the line that we did from the field, making 29 of 36 free throws. We wisely recognize we are only an average at best outside shooting team with a current team percentage of 32.6% beyond the arc. So we wisely pound the ball inside. We have scored 54% of our points this year from the line, where the typical team scores more around 33%.
We also score an unusually high 84% of our points from inside the arc and free throws. The average team nationally scores only 72% that way as they rely more on the 3. We benefit from shooting with a high "effective-FG%" stat that takes into account the higher value of the 3-point shot, despite our not making many threes, because we make an above average percentage of our two point shots.
The one stat that stands out the most however is our ability to get to the line. We can lament about our playing that style of ball and complain about the number of ugly turnovers it causes, but the bottom line is that it is a large part of what enables us to win games.
"... move your feet, call out the screens, wall them up. All right, we just went jumper, jumper, jumper .... no, no, no ... it's got to be inside, inside, inside right now! Whether you throw it in there or do it like he just did and you drive it in there "
While the style is brutally dull because it draws foul after foul, it is also efficiently effective. We scored 28 points in the paint against Winthrop, a powerful number given that we scored a total of only 21 field goals from the floor. The even better news is that 17 of those 21 baskets were scored off assists. We are a good team when we move the ball and pass generously. Not so much when we dribble or try to create our own shots.
It shouldn't surprise that we scored more points against Winthrop from the line that we did from the field, making 29 of 36 free throws. We wisely recognize we are only an average at best outside shooting team with a current team percentage of 32.6% beyond the arc. So we wisely pound the ball inside. We have scored 54% of our points this year from the line, where the typical team scores more around 33%.
We also score an unusually high 84% of our points from inside the arc and free throws. The average team nationally scores only 72% that way as they rely more on the 3. We benefit from shooting with a high "effective-FG%" stat that takes into account the higher value of the 3-point shot, despite our not making many threes, because we make an above average percentage of our two point shots.
The one stat that stands out the most however is our ability to get to the line. We can lament about our playing that style of ball and complain about the number of ugly turnovers it causes, but the bottom line is that it is a large part of what enables us to win games.
