Dai Dai didnāt enter the Portal (or at least it didnāt break as a story) until April 28th, so only a few days before the Portal Entry closure date of May 1st. So it wasnāt necessarily a slam dunk departure for him or Tang, the sort of bad blood that has him in the Portal the first week after their season ended (which was in the NIT on March 19th).
Dug (one of the highest rated players in the Portal) picked K-State in early April, with Villanovaās Brendan Hausen committing on April 26th. Even with Tylor Perry graduating and Camryn Carter transferring, those two may box Dai Dai out of the backcourt a bit.
It may just be more about the entire roster turning over. If Iām reading things right, taking Ames out of it, K-State was losing 7 of their top 9 to graduation or transfer (so with Ames gone its 9 of their Top 10), the only player of note returning is David NāGuessan (the old Hokie big man still has his COVID year apparently), otherwise itās just Macaleab Rich who scored only 61 points all season. Ames may just not have the stomach for a total rebuild like that, itās a lot to ask, especially entering Year 3 with a coach. When thereās that big an exodus, maybe it says a lot about how Tang is running things.
Playing devilās advocate, that may be partially motivated by their desperate need for D-1 level warm bodies. As mentioned, they lost 9 of their Top 10 from last year, and so far only have six new guys inbound (five transfers, one 4-star recruit) and maybe two deep bench returnees in addition to NāGuessan (thanks @AdventiveQuasar I had no idea that old Hokie still had eligibility), so itās tenuous if they even have enough scholarship guys to run a 5-on-5.
True, but that said, a few weeks ago we were in āwarm bodyā mode and more than half the fanbase wanted to run Harris offā¦only slightly fewer, Rohde.
Ames efficiency stats are pretty conparable to 2015 Hall. Jerome also had a low 20s TO rate his first year and Kiheiās 2020 TO rate was 26.1 (although his assist rate was top 15 nationally).
I think you canāt compare assist to turnover ratio here. Kstate was a high turnover team last year which tells me they lacked coaching. I bet if Dai Dai was at UVA last year and getting similar minutes his numbers would be really good.
yeah literally the ONE thing the offense did well last year was not turn it over (although that may have been partly because they were too conservative). KSU was one of the worst teams in the country in that department.
If our season last year didnāt teach our fanbase that low turnover rate is a Tony Bennett vanity stat with no particular point at all, then I donāt know what will.
Yeah, I can live with a few more TOās if itās done trying to actively score, versus dribbling/passing around the perimeter 30 feet from the basket, for 25 seconds of the shot clock.
Maybe - would rather the fans he left sad he left and want him back. Things were looking rough for us for a bit after Dante left and you didnāt see any of our fans desperate for a return.
yeah anyone can avoid turnovers by just passing it around the perimeter for 25 seconds. I dont think TO rate is a vanity stat but it needs to be taken in context. 2016 and 2019 had low TO rates that were legit, but bad shots that lead to long rebounds are arguably worse than deadball turnovers and this yearās team had a ton of those.
I had a memory of looking into how the four factors (shooting, turnovers, rebounds, free throws) were weighted empirically, and I guess I posted about it last offseason:
You can kinda intuit this by looking at charts of how each four factor (eFG, TO rate, OReb%, FT rate) is correlated to adjusted offensive efficiency: https://barttorvik.com/team-maps.php?year=2024
eFG has the tightest relationship on the chart by far.
