Scoring droughts

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SicEmSmokey33

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Up 21-14 with 12:04 left, didnt score again til 8:34 mark.
Up 29-20 with 6:28 left, score is 32-31 was with 4:18. 11-3 run in little more than 2 minutes.
Up 44-36 with 18:32 left, dont score again til 15:13 left, 8-1 run.
8 plus minutes of game time without scoring and getting out rebounded and killed in the paint isnt gonna take us far.
I love this team but they have to minimize the offensive lulls the rest of the way.
 
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SicEmSmokey33 said:
Up 21-14 with 12:04 left, didnt score again til 8:34 mark.
Up 29-20 with 6:28 left, score is 32-31 was with 4:18. 11-3 run in little more than 2 minutes.
Up 44-36 with 18:32 left, dont score again til 15:13 left, 8-1 run.
8 plus minutes of game time without scoring and getting out rebounded and killed in the paint isnt gonna take us far.
I love this team but they have to minimize the offensive lulls the rest of the way.
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Easier said than done. We don't have a lot of shooters and those we do have are streaky. Plus we don't have much in the way of post scoring. Add to that the fatigue factor due to limited depth and you get games like last night. At this point, it is what it is and we are what we are. Just get healthy and rested. Pray for a favorable draw and maybe we make it to the sweet 16.
 
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Hard to complain about those droughts when we've had several stretches that long all at once in games in previous seasons. (I may be overstating it, I'm not going back to check stats.) This offense is still way better than many in previous years, so I find it hard to complain too much. Just me though.
 
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Scoring isn’t linear

We scored 76 points

This game actually moved us up to #21 in offense on KP

All teams suffer scoring droughts. We actually suffer them less than the majority of CBB teams this year.

So this is one of those things that might feel true. You might feel that we suffer frequent scoring droughts. But We have a full season worth of data to look at that says, no, not really.
 
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omghulkhands said:
Scoring isn’t linear

We scored 76 points

This game actually moved us up to #21 in offense on KP

All teams suffer scoring droughts. We actually suffer them less than the majority of CBB teams this year.

So this is one of those things that might feel true. You might feel that we suffer frequent scoring droughts. But We have a full season worth of data to look at that says, no, not really.
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Think biggest part of we can’t seem score in crucial trips down the floor and crunch time
 
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It’s college basketball. Everybody has scoring droughts. If you hate defensive basketball then just stick to the NBA because even the lowest tier teams average 110 points a game now.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
Offense should be waaaaaay down the list of issues in that game, also we’re among the best in the nation among top teams at avoiding scoring droughts, maybe watch more CBB
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I’m interested to see how the SEC teams do in the tournament. Just to see if the conference is really this good or will it be the same blue bloods again.
 
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THEONLYTENISEE said:
I’m interested to see how the SEC teams do in the tournament. Just to see if the conference is really this good or will it be the same blue bloods again.
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I'm curious to see how different styles do in the tournament. For example...Barnes and his defense vs Oates and his helter skelter approach. Hate saying it, but UF might be the SEC team that makes the deepest run...and yeah, that includes Auburn.
 
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I love Rick Barnes as a person, and he is a really great coach and a HOF'er, however a common thread among his entire career are, great defensive teams and the penchant for scoring droughts. That typically limits his teams to being Sweet 16 level programs. I don't know about the rest of Big Orange Country, but that's just not good enough anymore. I want us to be more than that. I hope when Rick hangs it up, we have enough ambition and sense to go get someone more proven, who can take us to a higher level, instead of going back to rolling the dice with a mid-major flavor du jour, like we have almost always done in the past. (with the notable exception of Barnes himself)
 
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CAVPUT said:
I'm curious to see how different styles do in the tournament. For example...Barnes and his defense vs Oates and his helter skelter approach. Hate saying it, but UF might be the SEC team that makes the deepest run...and yeah, that includes Auburn.
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I wouldn’t be surprised about UF especially if they get a 1 seed. They got a lot of height.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
Offense should be waaaaaay down the list of issues in that game, also we’re among the best in the nation among top teams at avoiding scoring droughts, maybe watch more CBB
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Agreed. The game winning play by Ole Miss exemplified our issues last night in a nutshell: Felix stood there and watched as the dude who punked us the entire 2nd half gathered an offensive rebound for the win - sickening.
 
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SicEmSmokey33 said:
Ok, guess I was wrong. Blowing multiple 8 point leads doesnt seem like a problem to most. Guess we just see things different
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What a ridiculous passive aggressive response. They pointed out that our scoring droughts are statistically above average and you claim they are ok with blowing an 8 point lead. Sometime it is easier just to admit you may be wrong .
 
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TNBV said:
What a ridiculous passive aggressive response. They pointed out that our scoring droughts are statistically above average and you claim they are ok with blowing an 8 point lead. Sometime it is easier just to admit you may be wrong .
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Kinda said that in my first sentence....
Loss to Kentucky up 60-58 4:51 left, Final 75-64, 4 points in nearly 5 minutes
Auburn 2 points in first 5 minutes, 8 points the first 10 minutes...
Guess I shouldve said in our losses scoring droughts are a problem.
 
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THEONLYTENISEE said:
When I watched the NBA, teams rarely scored in the 90s.
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Probably an exaggeration? NBA scoring was at its lowest in the first decade of the 2000s, when it averaged about 96 points per game. Ironically it was the limited defense of the time that contributed to the scoring issues, as every team had some offensive plan that involved grinding out the clock in an isolation play.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
Offense should be waaaaaay down the list of issues in that game, also we’re among the best in the nation among top teams at avoiding scoring droughts, maybe watch more CBB
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Getting outrebounded by a bad rebounding and getting outscored in the paint are definitely at the top of the list. Give Ole Miss credit for that. But here is my point with the scoring ... Up 21-14 went 0/5, up 29-20 two turnovers and 0/2, up 44-36 went 0/4 and 2 turnovers...do anything those stretches and we win. Wouldn't have hurt to have stopped Lebron Brakefield either lol
 
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