re: Tide Hoops | 31-6 (16-2)

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Oh man, that's awesome. Never heard of that!

Now that I'm going down a rabbit hole on Torvik, it looks like these are the only games where we've given up >1.000 PPP:

[1.248] Oklahoma
[1.209] Gonzaga
[1.114] Connecticut
[1.055] Memphis

Interesting.

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"Our defense determines whether we win or lose games. How well we shoot just determines our margin of victory." ~ Coach Nate Oats

Let's go Gators!

Last night was fun. All the home games have been a good time. Get there while you can folks.

After a really awful start to the season from 3, Griffen has quietly shot 39% since the beginning of conference play.

Only 9 games left in the reg season. Time to lock in because it's going to be a tough finish. That's why I like seeing Texas A&M lose last night. Need Tennessee to drop another game before we play them as well. I want that SEC crown.

at Auburn, at Tennessee, vs Arky, vs Auburn and at Texas A&M are all still very tough games. Arky is at home but they are improving.

I want to sweep the barn but playing in their arena is always difficult. Have to beat them in Coleman.

I'd love to see 18-0 but we know that's unlikely. 16-2 should be doable obviously.

Too much Bama in me when it comes to following hoops. I'm always going to be paranoid with how we finish. This group is built different, though.

On to LSU.

Shot quality says this should have been a 14 point Alabama win? Doesn't seem legit.

I think last night's game broke the SQ metric.

ETA: Vanderbilt went 3-30 from 3 so obviously SQ metric had to figure out how much was just dreadful shooting (unlucky for Vanderbilt) and how much was attributable to Alabama defense. SQ says that Vandy should have made 7-8 more 3 pointers than they did. Maybe so, but I felt like the vast majority of their 3s were of the "chuck it up because the offense is stalled out" variety rather than the "good shots off screens or drive and kick outs" variety.

Yea.....like I posted last night, I'd be very curious to see this SQ score compared to actually watching the quality of their shots.

This does not line up at all with the actual quality of the looks they got from 3. Their SQ % seemed to be in about the 5th percentile, but it might be possible that the 2nd half was better and brought it up.

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Shot quality is a shitty predictor of who shouldve won or what the score shouldve been in a game. Players miss “good” open shots and hit “bad” contested shots all the time. Its not as simple as who takes the best shots is gonna win.

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Right but it can useful to shed a little more light on whether your defense or offense was executing well or not. It's imperfect, but useful in my opinion.

Obviously making baskets on offense and preventing baskets on defense is the end product that matters, but SQ can provide some insight on whether your offense and defense are working property to provide you the best opportunity to make shots and have the opponent miss shots. Over the course of a whole season I bet SQ (if it's measured correctly) is one of the best analytic tools to show strength of teams.

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After a really awful start to the season from 3, Griffen has quietly shot 39% since the beginning of conference play.

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Rocketed up recruiting boards throughout his senior year. I see no reason why he won't be an NBA prospect in the future

I agree. He's got work to do defensively, but his shooting is coming along and he's got some potential off the bounce from what I've seen. Presumably he will get to handle the ball more next year so we can see more of it, but I've often found myself impressed with his body control in traffic.

Was nice to see Bradley swish a 3 last night too. Was a pretty looking shot.