Uptempo...LOL

[AnnArborHawk]

link

Hawks are dead last in number of possessions per game.

RNK Team Pace

1 Denver 103

2 Phoenix 101.4

3 Seattle 101.3

4 Indiana 100.7

5 Golden State 100

6 L.A. Lakers 99.2

7 Utah 99.2

8 Memphis 98.7

9 L.A. Clippers 97.6

10 Cleveland 97.3

11 Orlando 96.8

12 Washington 96.5

13 Chicago 96.4

14 Sacramento 95.8

15 New York 95.4

16 Boston 95.3

17 New Jersey 94.4

18 Dallas 94

19 Houston 94

20 Charlotte 94

21 Toronto 93.8

22 Milwaukee 93.7

23 Minnesota 93.6

24 Portland 93.2

25 Philadelphia 93.1

26 New Orleans 92.6

27 Detroit 92.5

28 Miami 92.4

29 San Antonio 92.3

30 Atlanta 92.3

[coachx]

Now we are back to the same 3 cylinder engines we had last year (Lue and AJ). No uptempo system is possible with those 2 guys consistently "running a break."

Neither are tempo setting PGs. They are both walk it up PGs.

Remember when Law was playing and we were actually running.

If you leave it to fowards to push the tempo and run without a capable PG we would be hurting ourselves due to fowards turning the ball over at a high rate when they try to be something they are not......a running PG with accurate passing and good vision.

[DrReality]

Pretty hard to win games when you don't get the ball as often as your opponent. Telling stat.

[coachx]

Yep.

I wonder how many of those "possesions" can be subracted away by our turnovers ?

Some of the teams towards the bottom like San Antonio get away with it due to their dominating rebounding, few turnovers, and good shooting. Three things we don't have.

We got to turn up the temp and get more rebounds.

Please Law ! Come back !

At least AJ soes not turn the ball over much but can;t puch tempo to save his life. He is what he is....a decent backup and a good 3rd string PG.

[TheNorthCydeRises]

OK . . here's another way of looking at this.

Teams with winning records are in bold. There are 12 total. 5 in the East, 7 in the West.

RNK Team Pace

1 Denver 103

2 Phoenix 101.4

3 Seattle 101.3

4 Indiana 100.7

5 Golden State 100

6 L.A. Lakers 99.2

7 Utah 99.2

8 Memphis 98.7

9 L.A. Clippers 97.6

10 Cleveland 97.3

11 Orlando 96.8

12 Washington 96.5

13 Chicago 96.4

14 Sacramento 95.8

15 New York 95.4

16 Boston 95.3

17 New Jersey 94.4

18 Dallas 94

19 Houston 94

20 Charlotte 94

21 Toronto 93.8

22 Milwaukee 93.7

23 Minnesota 93.6

24 Portland 93.2

25 Philadelphia 93.1

26 New Orleans 92.6

27 Detroit 92.5

28 Miami 92.4

29 San Antonio 92.3

30 Atlanta 92.3

We're definitely not uptempo, because our offense has been so bad. Plus, we turn the ball over stupidly because we're trying to play too fast.

Persnally, I like the fact that we're right where San Antonio is, than where Phoenix is. We have a much greater chance of becoming a good defensive team that can get critical stops, than becoming a good uptempo team that runs every chance they get.

[exodus]

Yuk. I wouldnt have guessed that.

Looking at some other stats from that link the Hawks are

4th in offensive rebounding ratio

24th in defensive rebounding ratio

Too much like last year.

We are also 18th in offensive efficiency and 22nd in defensive efficiency.

Surprisingly (to me at least) we are 17th in turnover ratio. I would have expected worse.

[Diesel]

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We have a much greater chance of becoming a good defensive team that can get critical stops, than becoming a good uptempo team that runs every chance they get.

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I have to disagree.

There's nobody on this team that's capable of being even 6th team all defensive. However, we have wings that can finish and a rebounding, running big... We resemble an uptempo team much more than a defensive stopper. The problem is our coaching is ignorant to how to run uptempo.