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Posted by Ice
on 10/11/2009, 10:48 am
Stats do not tell the whole story. They're great for fans and they "can" draw attention to a part of the game for a coach.
If coach sees his team was out-rebounded 30-15, the coach then asks himself how that happened. Why did it happen and how can we make sure it doesn't happen again.
So, you can't just look at the stats and say, "we're terrible at rebounding, we need to do better." You learn how to make the team better rebounders by watching their tendencies during the game, which do not show up in statistics. Example being when the shot goes up, does the player watch the ball first or do they look to make contact then go get the ball? Or are they not getting the rebound because we're in a certain kind of zone that makes it difficult to be in good rebounding position so our defense is one that forces lot of turnovers but puts us in poor rebounding position? Will it help us beat this certain team that has certain strengths? You can't tell this "just" by looking at statistics.
TURNOVERS: Same thing with turnovers. A team may average a lot of turnovers, but may be forcing the issue more aggressively or are they simply making timid turnovers? What KIND of turnovers are they?
SHOOTING %: Why are we shooting poorly? Is it because the opponent had 7'0 dominating front line and our shots were altered? Did we have advantage inside, but our guards were settling for jumpshots instead of taking it inside or getting it inside to post players? WHY?
So, I read some of the posts the other day and just wanted to say my stance is that stats can be a guide, but you can't be a coach and walk into next game and just tell the guys to rebound better so our stats will improve. There are a lot of things that go into it. Our tendencies, opponents tendencies, what we're going to do to make sure we either neutralize opponents' strengths and/or impose our strenths on our opponents.
So many factors that you can't tell by just looking at the stats.
u CANT be beat, if u WONT be beat
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