Category: Basketball

Practice What You Preach

I remember my first year coaching at the high school level.  I was a JV girls coach and my tallest player was maybe 5’7″.  I knew our only chance was…

Assisting Teammates

Assist percentage is the percentage of a team’s assists accounted for by a player while they’re in the game, factoring in the total number of baskets a team makes during…

DEE-FENSE!

This week let’s take a look at a couple of defensive stats: Steal Percentage and Block Percentage. Let’s start with the definitions. Steal percentage is the percentage of opponent possessions…

Valuing Possessions

Let’s talk about how many points the last ten champs have scored per possession. The whole goal of measuring points in this manner is to do what we math geeks…

Where Do The Points Come From?

Where do the points come from? This week’s look at the Last Ten Champs is a little bit of a sequel to the entry a few weeks ago about how…

Defensive Shooting Percentages

We’ve looked at the offensive shooting numbers for the last ten champions, this week we’re taking a look at the defensive shooting percentages. On the men’s side, D1 was the…

Put the Ball in the Basket!

How well do you need to shoot the ball to win it all? As we continue our look at the Last Ten Champions at each level, we come to the…

How Many Turnovers are OK?

We never want turnovers.  But let’s face it, you never have a game with zero turnovers.  Even if you’re blowing out a team, you’ll have a fast break that ends…

Let’s Talk Rebounding

Let’s talk about the last ten champs have dominated the boards.  We’re going to specifically look at Rebounding Percentages, that is, the percentage of available rebounds a team actually collects. …