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Topic:  Bench Points, Free Throws, and Turnovers
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OU_Country
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  Message Not Read  Bench Points, Free Throws, and Turnovers
   Posted: 3/29/2014 12:10:13 AM 
In tuning into radio and TV today, there are a few things I've noted that seem to make a good tournament team, besides having a damn good guard or scorer that gives a team the shot at a Sweet 16, or Elite Eight.  Those three things are in the Subject.  Tennessee had a PG that didn't commit a TO in 89 min over 3 games.  UD had a bench that outscored Stanford 34-2.  And I don't have stats, but I refuse to believe that you win big games while missing free throws.

My point is that winning teams have two of these four: they either have a good bench, good free throw shooting, win the turnover battle, or have guards/wings that make things happen.

I just think of Bobcat teams during DJ's time, and they didn't always do all of those things, but they had good guards, and they created turnovers often.
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Chicken George
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  Message Not Read  RE: Bench Points, Free Throws, and Turnovers
   Posted: 3/29/2014 12:25:02 AM 
There is not enough data to make this determination, but in the few recruits we've seen I must admit that it's crossed my mind that JC seems to recruit the forwards/center types a lot quicker than he recruits the guards.  We seem to be struggling to find the necessary PG and SG as compared to the rest of the lineup.  JG seemed to recruit the other way around--guards first, then struggle to find the bigger guys.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Bench Points, Free Throws, and Turnovers
   Posted: 3/29/2014 12:47:59 AM 
Chicken George wrote:
There is not enough data to make this determination, but in the few recruits we've seen I must admit that it's crossed my mind that JC seems to recruit the forwards/center types a lot quicker than he recruits the guards.  We seem to be struggling to find the necessary PG and SG as compared to the rest of the lineup.  JG seemed to recruit the other way around--guards first, then struggle to find the bigger guys.


Fair assessment to me.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Bench Points, Free Throws, and Turnovers
   Posted: 3/29/2014 1:03:09 AM 
I don't think that coaching is irrelevant here - game plan, prep, in game. Plus the accumulation of that through the season up and into the tournament.

RS Bobcat

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Pataskala
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  Message Not Read  RE: Bench Points, Free Throws, and Turnovers
   Posted: 3/29/2014 11:17:24 AM 
Good FT shooting is often overlooked by players these days.  It isn't as exciting as making 3s, but FTs are the easiest ways to score points.  Against Dayton, Stanford missed their first five or six FTs in the second half.  If they had made only 60% of them they wouldn't have had to foul so much down the stretch.  It was a four or five pt game until Stanford had to gain possessions by fouling.

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crackerbaby00
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  Message Not Read  RE: Bench Points, Free Throws, and Turnovers
   Posted: 3/29/2014 11:44:04 AM 
Pataskala wrote:
Good FT shooting is often overlooked by players these days.  It isn't as exciting as making 3s, but FTs are the easiest ways to score points.  Against Dayton, Stanford missed their first five or six FTs in the second half.  If they had made only 60% of them they wouldn't have had to foul so much down the stretch.  It was a four or five pt game until Stanford had to gain possessions by fouling.

It's interesting you say that. I heard a stat on the radio just yesterday that this year was the highest overall FT shooting percentage in college basketball history.  Last year was in the top 5 as well.

 
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