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- ranked 265th in assists per game

 

We ranked lower last year.

 

 

Yay?

 

In other words, assist rate doesn't dictate our success nearly as much as turnover rate.

 

 

Yes - we run an offensive style that does not produce high assist numbers and that was true last year also.   We don't push the tempo which leads to assists on fast breaks and we tend to break down defenses with the dribble rather than pass rotations.  That was the same last year.

 

The key difference is turnovers which are much higher this season.  Of course people tend to forget we had some pretty bad games in December last year also.  All everyone seems to remember about last season are the games from late January to early March.

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- ranked 265th in assists per game

 

We ranked lower last year.

 

 

Yay?

 

In other words, assist rate doesn't dictate our success nearly as much as turnover rate.

 

 

Yes - we run an offensive style that does not produce high assist numbers and that was true last year also.   We don't push the tempo which leads to assists on fast breaks and we tend to break down defenses with the dribble rather than pass rotations.  That was the same last year.

 

The key difference is turnovers which are much higher this season.  Of course people tend to forget we had some pretty bad games in December last year also.  All everyone seems to remember about last season are the games from late January to early March.

 

Actually,  through 10 games last year we were avg. 9.9 turnovers per game.  This year, we are avg. 15.5 per game.

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Comparing the early part of this season with the early part of last season reminds me of all the arguments comparing Bo Pelini's first six seasons with Tom Osborne's.

Yeah, there were so many of the same players on those different ball clubs decades apart.

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