by Chicagojayfan » Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:48 am
JacobPadilla wrote:Alphawalt wrote:...
There's something to this, but I also think they've improved that throughout the season, and it didn't bear out in dramatically different production as Chicago showed above. Not going to update the numbers, but I looked into this back in January for a Twitter thread.
I haven't tried to find data to support it, but like you say, to my eyes, they've gotten a lot better at feeding the post. Ashworth in particular has been making at least a couple of great post feed passes a game recently
Some of it might be related to how much better we're moving the ball and spacing things with Alexander/Ashworth in the backcourt. I thought in first Nova game and some of the non-conference games the defenses were clogging things up for us, and they were struggling to to get space and clean ball movement. But now Ashworth's not picking up his dribble as much and is more decisive, and is moving much better without the ball, and Alexander seems to have a much better feel for where he's at
Providence looked to be trying to replicate that formula, but we got more than enough clean shots to have won that game, IMO... just didn't hit them
Sucks that we lost this one, but it doesn't change my thoughts on their chances in the NCAA all that much