The ACC Index Card

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The ACC Index Card

It is always interesting to analyze. Now that the season is over it seemed like a good time to link.

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General NCS Basketball

6 Responses to The ACC Index Card

  1. choppack1 03/06/2007 at 8:35 AM #

    Interesting that BC and State are 1 and 2 in fouls committed – followed by UNC and Duke…What makes it interesting is how both of us play a very conservative defense that doesn’t emphasize pressure. OTOH, Duke and UNC play a very aggressive D.

  2. burnbarn 03/06/2007 at 10:06 AM #

    I think they are #s 1 and 2 in terms of fewest fouls committed.

  3. BoKnowsNCS71 03/06/2007 at 11:17 AM #

    I would guess that since we were often behind at the end of a lot of games — we intentionally fouled a lot more.

  4. choppack1 03/06/2007 at 11:49 AM #

    BoKnows – I don’t think that we were in the position in many of our losses where fouling made a difference.

  5. the_phisherman 03/06/2007 at 11:50 AM #

    The only game where we fouled a lot at the end was the Alabama game

  6. BigRed 03/06/2007 at 12:54 PM #

    No surprise on the small fouls committed number. With such a short bench, we couldn’t afford to apply a lot of fouls. We’d have run out of players.

    Two hallmark stats resulting from our short bench: %minutes played by our starters and # of fouls committed. Be careful reading meaning into either of these numbers as they were products of hardship and not a choice of gameplay style.

    The FT attempts is a bit more telling. Apparently we aren’t forcing other teams to foul us. Is this simply a by-product of not being ahead at the end of close games or does it show that we are neglecting a “drive and be fouled” offensive opportunity? I tend to think it’s more of the former, but I’m not sure the latter shouldn’t be explored.

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