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Some various thoughts right now. Sorry for starting a new thread.
1. I don't mind the tourney on UNLV's floor. Yes, it's a huge advantage for UNLV, but BYU plays an easy schedule and more difficulty and adversity to prepare for NCAA tournament success is not a bad thing. l just wish the NCAA tourney would look at the MWC tourney as a series of home games for UNLV and away games for BYU when seeding. It's obvious they don't do that.
2. Jimmer and the offense. I have heard some criticisms of Jimmer over the UNLV game. The offensive efficiency stat I like to use is my modified PPS which takes FT's into account by taking total points / (FGA + .5*FTA). Jimmer's PPS for the game was 1.15. The rest of the team was 1.01 for a total of 1.07. For the season BYU is at an extremely high 1.18 and BYU's opp's are 1.04. Jimmer did get a little cold between the 10:00 marks of each half, but overall, he played great, and he was the only reason we were in the game.
3. How to beat BYU on defense: the teams BYU struggles with offensively are the teams that play very physical especially on the perimeter. When a team like UNLV sells out by pressuring our perimeter players 35' away from the basket, you have to beat them on the drive and by going inside. Jimmer's the only guy it seems willing to take it to the hoop and we get nothing from the inside.
4. How to beat BYU on offense: athletic, physical inside guys who can score inside and get offensive rebounds and penetrating guards who can get to the key to get the big men good touches.
5. Luckily, I don't think Florida does enough of #3 and #4 to beat us, especially #3. I expect us to score at will and win by 8-12.
6. The seed. Like others have said, #7 is a bit of a screwjob, but I think we have enough data to show that BYU definitely gets punished for its no Sunday play issue. It's probably good enough for a two seed drop on average. Oh well. On the flip side, Florida should've been a 5 seed, so the seed doesn't hurt us until the second round, and you're going to have to beat very good teams starting 2nd round anyway.
7. JT. I agree with Goat on this. JT's the key. We can beat Florida without JT. We need big games from JT to go further. We don't need him to come in and play like a dumbass making left handed bounce passes against pressure defense.
8. Next year. It was pretty nice to see the 6 players we used exclusively the last 8 minutes of the UNLV game when we played very well will all be back next year: Jimmer, Jackson, Loyd, Abouo, Hartsock, Davies. It's obvious our weakness is inside. I hope Davies, Hartsock, and Collinsworth work hard on their game. And did I really hear C Collins grew to 6'11 on his mission? That would be pretty awesome but seems doubtful.
1. I don't mind the tourney on UNLV's floor. Yes, it's a huge advantage for UNLV, but BYU plays an easy schedule and more difficulty and adversity to prepare for NCAA tournament success is not a bad thing. l just wish the NCAA tourney would look at the MWC tourney as a series of home games for UNLV and away games for BYU when seeding. It's obvious they don't do that.
2. Jimmer and the offense. I have heard some criticisms of Jimmer over the UNLV game. The offensive efficiency stat I like to use is my modified PPS which takes FT's into account by taking total points / (FGA + .5*FTA). Jimmer's PPS for the game was 1.15. The rest of the team was 1.01 for a total of 1.07. For the season BYU is at an extremely high 1.18 and BYU's opp's are 1.04. Jimmer did get a little cold between the 10:00 marks of each half, but overall, he played great, and he was the only reason we were in the game.
3. How to beat BYU on defense: the teams BYU struggles with offensively are the teams that play very physical especially on the perimeter. When a team like UNLV sells out by pressuring our perimeter players 35' away from the basket, you have to beat them on the drive and by going inside. Jimmer's the only guy it seems willing to take it to the hoop and we get nothing from the inside.
4. How to beat BYU on offense: athletic, physical inside guys who can score inside and get offensive rebounds and penetrating guards who can get to the key to get the big men good touches.
5. Luckily, I don't think Florida does enough of #3 and #4 to beat us, especially #3. I expect us to score at will and win by 8-12.
6. The seed. Like others have said, #7 is a bit of a screwjob, but I think we have enough data to show that BYU definitely gets punished for its no Sunday play issue. It's probably good enough for a two seed drop on average. Oh well. On the flip side, Florida should've been a 5 seed, so the seed doesn't hurt us until the second round, and you're going to have to beat very good teams starting 2nd round anyway.
7. JT. I agree with Goat on this. JT's the key. We can beat Florida without JT. We need big games from JT to go further. We don't need him to come in and play like a dumbass making left handed bounce passes against pressure defense.
8. Next year. It was pretty nice to see the 6 players we used exclusively the last 8 minutes of the UNLV game when we played very well will all be back next year: Jimmer, Jackson, Loyd, Abouo, Hartsock, Davies. It's obvious our weakness is inside. I hope Davies, Hartsock, and Collinsworth work hard on their game. And did I really hear C Collins grew to 6'11 on his mission? That would be pretty awesome but seems doubtful.
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