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Anybody notice how good a passer Haywood is in the halfcourt. That in addition to his shooting being on last night really helps the offense. Even in the first half when he didn't score he had some fantastic passes. The team had a 1 pt lead at half even though they only had 1 made three - that was due to good movement and passing (which is how you defeat a zone, not by shooting over it). He has really good court vision. If he had a stronger handle he could be a big PG.
He leads the team in assists per min and asst/TO ratio. Also leads the team in steals per min.
Pastner and his assts have been better game coaches than recruiting coaches so far. They are on about their 3rd offensive system of the year. With AD and Banks both playing they are playing sort of a 3-2 offense with a fair bit of high/low between AD and Banks. AD showed the ability to play like this last season, glad to see it return. I can't fathom why big men don't seem to flock here. The work Coach Rev does with our bigs is outstanding. Lammers became an all-ACC player, AD went from the player I thought was most likely to transfer when Pastner arrived to an ACC level player.
Cole also makes the offense flow better than Moses does right now. He is a better shooter and Evan may be the best cutter on the team.
We really have to work on our ballhandling though. Some of that is youth, but we are just too loose with the ball. We were not smart against the press. I would have placed a tall guy (probably Cole) at the FT line. Throw into him (not to a guard in the corner) and then run the guards, including the inbounder. This would not allow them to double after the inbounds pass and give you a potential run out.
Alvarado was yelling at other guys but some of the bad passes were on him. Glad to see him returning to his ACC form from last year though. I sort of figure over time Jose and Devoe are likely to return to the mean. Jose shot almost 39% from three last season - no reason for him to be shooting in the 20's. Devoe shot 52% from 3 last year in HS.
FWIW, I expect a Jekyll and Hyde team most of this season. We are going to have games like this and we are going to have games where we lose and don't look good and it may not come either way against who we expect. That should be expected of such a young team (in our 3 ACC games our FR and SO have gotten 65% of the min and that was with Haywood missing a game)
That being said the stats are looking much more similar to Pastner's first season. Right now our Offensive efficiency is 101.5 (#204) and our defensive efficiency is 90.7 (#10) with an adjusted tempo of 69.8 possessions per game (#142).
In 2017 it was 100.0 (#259), 91.0 (#6), 68.2 (#179). Biggest difference is luck factor in 2017 it was +0.069 (#26), this year it is -0.093 (#324).
"The easiest one to understand is Luck, which is the deviation in winning percentage between a team’s actual record and their expected record using the correlated gaussian method. The luck factor has nothing to do with the rating calculation, but a team that is very lucky (positive numbers) will tend to be rated lower by my system than their record would suggest."
So basically 2 years ago our record was better than what the stats would have suggested, this year it is the reverse.
He leads the team in assists per min and asst/TO ratio. Also leads the team in steals per min.
Pastner and his assts have been better game coaches than recruiting coaches so far. They are on about their 3rd offensive system of the year. With AD and Banks both playing they are playing sort of a 3-2 offense with a fair bit of high/low between AD and Banks. AD showed the ability to play like this last season, glad to see it return. I can't fathom why big men don't seem to flock here. The work Coach Rev does with our bigs is outstanding. Lammers became an all-ACC player, AD went from the player I thought was most likely to transfer when Pastner arrived to an ACC level player.
Cole also makes the offense flow better than Moses does right now. He is a better shooter and Evan may be the best cutter on the team.
We really have to work on our ballhandling though. Some of that is youth, but we are just too loose with the ball. We were not smart against the press. I would have placed a tall guy (probably Cole) at the FT line. Throw into him (not to a guard in the corner) and then run the guards, including the inbounder. This would not allow them to double after the inbounds pass and give you a potential run out.
Alvarado was yelling at other guys but some of the bad passes were on him. Glad to see him returning to his ACC form from last year though. I sort of figure over time Jose and Devoe are likely to return to the mean. Jose shot almost 39% from three last season - no reason for him to be shooting in the 20's. Devoe shot 52% from 3 last year in HS.
FWIW, I expect a Jekyll and Hyde team most of this season. We are going to have games like this and we are going to have games where we lose and don't look good and it may not come either way against who we expect. That should be expected of such a young team (in our 3 ACC games our FR and SO have gotten 65% of the min and that was with Haywood missing a game)
That being said the stats are looking much more similar to Pastner's first season. Right now our Offensive efficiency is 101.5 (#204) and our defensive efficiency is 90.7 (#10) with an adjusted tempo of 69.8 possessions per game (#142).
In 2017 it was 100.0 (#259), 91.0 (#6), 68.2 (#179). Biggest difference is luck factor in 2017 it was +0.069 (#26), this year it is -0.093 (#324).
"The easiest one to understand is Luck, which is the deviation in winning percentage between a team’s actual record and their expected record using the correlated gaussian method. The luck factor has nothing to do with the rating calculation, but a team that is very lucky (positive numbers) will tend to be rated lower by my system than their record would suggest."
So basically 2 years ago our record was better than what the stats would have suggested, this year it is the reverse.
