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Originally Posted by Bearcat
They had a nice stat in last night's game... KU has a +15 point differential in the paint this season, and it was +18 vs OSU, and IIRC, that was maybe halfway through the 2nd half. So, would you rather give up 15 more points in the paint and not have the #1 FG% defense in the country, or give up a few open looks beyond the arc?
(Maybe KCC could do some kenpom magic and see where that ranks... if they showed it, I missed it.)
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I thought we went over this just yesterday. Rerun should try reading back a few pages.
http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showp...postcount=4784
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Anyway, to hopefully conclude this series, here are my opinions in bullet points.
- The offense is largely in control of the quality of 3-point shots it takes.
- These decisions are affected by the quality of the opposing 2P% defense
- 3P% is also influenced by effective challenging of shots.
- All of that can add up to about a 3% swing from average.
- So 3P% defense is not totally random
- But a defense has considerably more direct impact on 2P% than 3P%.
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KU is the best at 2P% defense in the country and has been by far over the last five years. That basically means that they're the best at what they can fully control. Having that good 2P% defense also leads to better 3P% defense (because keeping teams out of the paint can often lead to difficult low percentage shots that they don't want to take, which is a pretty intuitive effect). While 3P% defense is largely random, this effect has still led KU to have the 7th best 3P% defense in the last 5 years.
So basically, nobody should be complaining about the team's defense. Doing so is ridiculous. It's a tremendous strength, not a weakness in any way, shape, or form.