Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 2:29 pmmilksteak wrote:Anyone else think Westbrook#36 is a tool?
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 2:37 pmbillyjack wrote:milksteak wrote:Anyone else think Westbrook#36 is a tool?
Why? Because a VCU fan got on and made the ridiculous statement:
"VCU's half-court defense has improved tremendously since the 'Nova game, and I think we'd beat Nova convincingly today."
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 2:43 pmlquarles wrote:billyjack wrote:milksteak wrote:Anyone else think Westbrook#36 is a tool?
Why? Because a VCU fan got on and made the ridiculous statement:
"VCU's half-court defense has improved tremendously since the 'Nova game, and I think we'd beat Nova convincingly today."
Not ridiculous, but realistic.
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 2:44 pmlquarles wrote:billyjack wrote:milksteak wrote:Anyone else think Westbrook#36 is a tool?
Why? Because a VCU fan got on and made the ridiculous statement:
"VCU's half-court defense has improved tremendously since the 'Nova game, and I think we'd beat Nova convincingly today."
Not ridiculous, but realistic.
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 2:52 pmlquarles wrote:Westbrook#36 wrote:lquarles wrote:Villanova relies on the 3 pointer too much, and the biggest improvement in our half-court defense is closing out on shooters. So you can try to beat us inside all you want, it won't be enough to win the game.
We don't have an over reliance on 3's this year if you've watched more than one or two of our games. We can still shoot it, but we're much more about getting it inside to Ochefu and Pinkston or driving to the hoop and getting to the line. But I guess you'll disagree with than also, whatever, tell yourself whatever you what to believe, Nova isn't a good match-up for VCU.
Villanova's 3-point attempts in their last 7 games:
Creighton: 26
Georgetown: 23
Pennsylvania: 18
Xavier: 34!
DePaul: 29
St. John's: 23
Seton Hall: 24
That's not over relying?
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 2:58 pm
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 3:02 pmGumbyDamnit! wrote:Great post. You're so right. Maybe you should also include a big "!" next to 3FGM vs. Xavier. That would be 15! As in 15/34"!" or 44%!!! But you are right, we should ask a guard dominated team who has shot 41% from 3 as a team over those last 6 games you mention, to stop shooting the 3. That 1.24 pts per FG attempt obviously is hurting us. FWIW, our 3 pt reliant team is shooting considerably better than VCU anyway (47%-43%). So you guys keep hitting your 2's at 40-45% and we'll do the same from 3, and see who's offense generates more points.
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 3:11 pmGumbyDamnit! wrote:What's really funny about questioning if Nova is too reliant on the 3 is when you find out that VCU attempts more 3's per game than Nova does. But don't let that little fact get in the way of your solid hoops knowledge.
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 3:25 pmPosted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 3:35 pmstever20 wrote:RPI does give more credit to road wins, but doesn't punish for road losses as much.
let's look-
Butler- right now 15-6(.714) Home 10-1, road 3-3, neutral 2-2. RPI 14 SOS 7
Xavier- Right now 14-7(.667). Home 11-0, road 2-5, neutral 1-2. RPI 26 SOS 12
RPI own records- Butler 12.2-5.2(.701), Xavier 10.4-5(.675)
Part of Xavier's high RPI is they have no home losses. Those are big. Let's say for discussions sake they lost an extra home game, but won an extra road game...
Home 10-1 (6-1.4), road 3-4 (4.2-2.4), neutral 1-2. add that up and they are 11.2-5.8. (.659) .016 lower. That alone would be .004 in RPI lower. 2 spots in the RPI right now. However, the committee would be looking at Xavier a whole lot more favorably quite frankly because how you play away from home is factored in big time because that is where you play in the NCAA tourney.