Some Sobering Stats

[Kendrick Perkins]

- On the year we have 47 more turnovers than assists

- ranked 303rd in the nation in TO's per game

- ranked 287th in the nation in assists to TO ratio

- ranked 265th in assists per game

 

Discuss

[Norm Peterson]

What were our numbers last year?

[hhcmatt]

- ranked 265th in assists per game

 

We ranked lower last year.

[Kendrick Perkins]

 

- ranked 265th in assists per game

 

We ranked lower last year.

 

 

Yay?

[hhcmatt]

 

 

- 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.

[gobigredbrah]

We are 2nd in the power 5 conferences in turnovers per game. Only wake forest is ahead of us with 15.8 a game.

 

Here is a PDF file for that list. NU is on page 7, #307 with 15.5 a game: http://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/pdf/rankings?rptWeeks=36&statSeq=217&div=1&sportCode=MBB&academicYear=2015&rptType=PDF&doWhat=showrankings

[HuskerBB]

 

 

 

- 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.

[brfrad]

 

 

 

 

- 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.

[Norm Peterson]

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.

[cipsucks]

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.

Bo had a higher F Bomb to loss ratio than Tom did during that stretch....

[atskooc]

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.