Originally Posted by
Kedsy
Are we blaming the "era" now? Duke's 2012, 2013, and 2014 teams were veteran dominated teams that each only had one freshman in the rotation.
Duke is currently #22 in KenPom's defensive rankings, though before the Covid pause we were much better. So far, 41.8% of the team's minutes have been played by freshmen.
Since Pomeroy started crunching numbers in 2001-02, Duke has had eight teams before this year's team with more than 35.0% of the team's minutes played by freshmen:
Does it sound like I'm "blaming the 'era'"? All I said was the OAD era - which it absolutely is an era - creates dominant offense teams and unpredictable defensive teams. Not sure how you can disagree. Here's the breakdown:
02-10 offensive /defensive average ranking: 10.6 / 9.2
02-10 offensive / defensive 25%-75% percentile range ranking: 1-13 / 3-15
11-21 offensive /defensive average ranking: 6.2 / 40.9
11-21 offensive / defensive 25%-75% percentile range ranking: 3.5-7.5 / 10-79
And, for the record, I don't complain about the OAD strategy. Like any strategy, it has positives, negatives, and trade-offs. And one trade-off is giving offensively-gifted freshman who haven't spent enough time in a complicated defensive system plenty of minutes.
Maybe you're just historically sensitive about anyone saying anything negative about the OAD strategy (and based on your posts, that may very well be the case).
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. - Winston Churchill
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