No, it still contributes. The actual calculation takes into account total blocks, irrespective of where the shot came from. But at least in the NBA, it doesn't penalize for facing 3pt attempts, which are harder to block. The denominator is 2pt FGA. So in the NBA at least, it's possible to have an infinite block rate (if you face a 3pt attempt and block it). I assume the same is true in college.
The calculation is 100 * (BLK * (Tm MP / 5)) / (MP * (Opp FGA - Opp 3PA)). For a team, the "MP" stuff just cancels out and it is blocks/(Opp FGA - Opp 3PA).
Rashomon
There are many ways to look at defensive rebounding.
Told from the perspective of the shooting team, a defensive rebound is a guilt-laden tragedy both in regards to the missed shot and the lost opportunity for Redemption.
Told from the perspective of a defensive traditionalist, few things are as romantic to Witness as a solid block out between Gladiators.
From a different perspective, a large number of defensive rebounds might mean that our big guys have simply planted themselves near the basket and aren't actively switching, chasing, and creating the sort of defensive mayhem that has made them Notorious.
Told from the perspective of our freshmen, a defensive rebound is delightful--the defensive rebound (or steal, or blocked shot) can instantly transform into to an individual coast to coast sprint of Speed, or maybe a Vertigo-inducing game of keepaway (between 2 of The Usual Suspects, or maybe with the Third Man), or a 30 foot pass to one of our team's many great finishers--which, in turn, can lead to an efficient 2 points, a demoralizing turnaround, and a Sportcenter Memento for one of our Natural Born Killers.
Yes, we've been expected to win by 80+% chance for a while now, and the 81% is actually down a bit from almost 85% recently (thanks to our slight underperformances in wins against Louisville and NC State and UNC's obliterating Wake).
More or less, yes. Torvik has an 11-point expected spread tonight and a 4.6 point spread expected for the Va Tech game. If you think of home vs neutral as a 5 point edge and road vs neutral as a 5 pt disadvantage, you'll see that Duke would be slightly more favored against Va Tech than against UNC on a neutral site. Which makes sense, since Torvik has UNC as the #8 team nationally and Va Tech as the # 15 team nationally. As we can see, Torvik thinks we are a 1.2 point favorite to win at UNC (54% chance).
It seems like everyone keeps forgetting that Reddish missed the Syracuse game. In the CBS game preview it only mentions Duke being without Tre. ugh
Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?
I think the implication was that it might be different going forward, not over the season up to this point - the 8th and 9th minutes-played are 12/6 and 4/4 over the last two games. We'll have to see.
Nice thought, but we can't expect them to shoot at a higher rate than their "true" average just to bring the season average up to the true rate. If they can avoid 9 for 43 games, I'll be happy.
I understand that anybody can get into foul trouble in any particular game, but I hope you're not saying Duke is prone to foul trouble? We are the 5th best team in the country at keeping our opponents off the free throw line.
Duke under Coach K has always been a poor defensive rebounding team. Even in the 80s and 90s when we didn't have any OADs.
Yes, we'll have to see. Personally, I'm not a big believer in two game samples.