You realize offensive efficiency isn't some nebulous formula, right? It's points per possession, adjusted for schedule strength. You can't rig that stat. We're talking about concrete, results-based numbers here.tomiathon said:bear2be2 said:That's just the way you remember it because we've had a few games where it was legitimately bad. But our offense has been pretty consistently good this season. The problem is we have a defense that requires it to be virtually perfect, and nobody's offense is perfect.tomiathon said:
Not sure how the computers measure efficiency, but their metrics are clearly wrong for this team when the offense stinks out loud for all but about 8 mins per game waaaaaaay too often. Those 8 minutes are admittedly exhilarating, but the other 32 minutes are pure torture.
There aren't a lot of teams in college basketball that can score the way we do. All of these games that turned out close at the end that we had no business being in did so precisely because we are capable of elite offense for extended stretches. If we weren't, we'd have been blown out seven or eight times instead of twice.
No, it's the way I remember it because it has been exactly the way its been in literally every single game I've watched this season except maybe 2. The numbers can lie all they want, but the eye tells a different story, and it's that this offense has been incredibly inconsistent all season long. Again, yes, it will play incredibly for a short duration each game, but that does NOT in ANY way make up for the MUCH lengthier periods of absolute garbage where we throw up stupid contested threes or drive straight into an opponent's chest and throw up a shot that has no chance of going in and pray for a bailout call that we don't deserve because we're out of control. To say nothing of the missed FTs and mindless TOs. I don't care what the metric says. It's wrong.
Our offensive efficiency is high because we score at a high rate. We're inconsistent at times. But over the course of a 40-minute game, our offense almost always shows up, which is why almost every one of our losses came by single digits despite a defense that was dreadful as often as not.
