It had to be pre-CTBā¦ isnt one of the weaknesses of the packline most players vacate the offensive end once a shot goes up?
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One of the few benefits of missing a lot of shots is the opportunities for a lot of offensive rebounds.
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The offensive rebounding has been a green shoot in the Jordan Minor starter era. They didnāt get much against some good defensive rebounding teams in WF and VT, but against an average rebounding GT team and below average NCSU team, they were able to get some opportunities without getting too open in defensive transition.
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The Minor era has changed everything. We started out this season getting outrebounded by about 20 boards. Now we have the double digit rebounding advantage
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I love the things that Minor does that show up in the box score. But he does a ton of things that donāt, too. Such as:
Even when he doesnāt get a rebound, heās keeping the other teamās big men off the boards. Weāre not giving up nearly as many second chances as we used to.
He has been really good at deflecting entry passes into the post, and poking away dribbles on hedges.
He sets strong screens. Not Jack Salt-level screens, but pretty good. Even when not setting a screen, his wide body clears space, particularly for teammates driving to the basket.
He attacks the basket. I wish he wouldnāt rely on those reverse layups so much, but he is undersized (well, more like under-tall) and not the most explosive leaper, and his shot fake is effective. Heās even started making aggressive one- and two-dribble moves from the post, which has opened up the offense.
His presence has taken pressure off Blake, and Blake has played better lately, too.
Minor is not a dominant player, by any stretch. But heās a really important piece that the team had been missing.
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Minorās spin to left hand hook seems to be money too
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Iāve been wanting to do this for a while now, but here is the current box and whisker plot for our Torvik game scores, 100 being the highest and 0 being the lowest. Weāve played a lot of really high level games! I think itās obvious, but the bad ones have beenā¦ gross at best.
So weāve flatlined?
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Okay so we have the numbers 0 to 100, and thereās a dot, and some other dots, and a line, andā¦ two linesā¦ andā¦ yeahā¦
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The median looks to be in the low 90s.
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Half of our game results (above the median of a 92 game score or to the right of the 3rd dot for @dave92) we have played like a top 10 team in the country.
One fourth of our game results have been (below the 1st quartile of a 28 game score or between the first and second dot) we have played at the level or worse than the 275th best team in the country.
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Itās pretty clear that Minor is a good basketball player and itās obvious why we were excited to land him. Is he going to be perfect every game? No. But thatās okay.
His defense is a revelation. Heās gone from unplayable to one of the best 1-on-1 defenders on a team with Beekman and Dunn.
Offensively, his screening ability makes sides a realistically viable scheme. Defensively, he fills a hole in the post that we had to work around for a few months.
I also donāt think itās a coincidence that Dunn and Buchanan are playing a lot better and look more comfortable since Minor has come onto the scene.
This team still has plenty of flaws and idk what the rest of the season holds, but a few weeks ago there was a feeling of despair. I think thatās mostly gone, even if we lay an egg tomorrow and/or end up missing the tournament.
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Will just dampen expectations a bit - minor did play 22 minutes against wake and we lost by 20 in that one
@DFresh11 You need to ask JWilly why we take so many 2-point shots just inside the 3-point line. Is that a strategy I am not aware of?
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I dont hate that as much as most people do. Shoot em when you got em
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If only this team had Shayok Thompson Armaan and Morsell. We would score 100 pts a game on midrange jumpers.
Nates Oates somewhere vommitting violently into a toilet at that thought mummering ā3pters and layups only. THREE POINTERS AND LAYUPS ONLYā
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I donāt mind, and sometimes like, mid-range shots and long 2s.**
** provided they go in
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Perhaps interesting - monthly Torvik:
- November - 23 overall / 177 offense / 3 defense
- December - 117 overall / 184 offense / 84 defense
- January - 69 overall / 200 offense / 21 defense
- Overall - 62 overall / 186 offense / 9 defense
I wonāt restart the āwe are not trying to change anything offensivelyā debate (because Iām right, but also a nice guy, and it hurts me to see those who disagree with me flail so muchā¦), but our offense has been fairly consistent, at least in looking at monthly periods.
Fwiw, Minor in the starting rotation:
- 60 / 281 / 5
Minor in the starting rotation, only the Ws:
- 23 / 183 / 6
(sorry to interrupt the āMinorās screens really goosed our offenseā discourse. I was really enjoying it!)
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