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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 2707920, member: 1329"] High percentage 2s are exceedingly hard to come by with modern defense. You need either dominant big men or to get out in transition. Offensive rebounding is a way of turning not as high percentage 2s into a good offense (and pseudo high % 2s), though. I'm hoping this is the direction we go in with Whaley, Diarra, Williams, and Carlton. Every offense in the top 10 in the country last year was either 3 point dominant or big man dominant (except 1): [URL='https://kenpom.com/team.php?team=Villanova']Villanova[/URL] - 3 point dominant [URL='https://kenpom.com/team.php?team=Purdue']Purdue[/URL] - 3 point dominant [URL='https://kenpom.com/team.php?team=Duke']Duke[/URL] - Top 10 (#1) offensive rebounding [URL='https://kenpom.com/team.php?team=Wichita+St.']Wichita St.[/URL] - Top 10 offensive rebounding [URL='https://kenpom.com/team.php?team=Kansas']Kansas[/URL] - 3 point dominant [URL='https://kenpom.com/team.php?team=North+Carolina']North Carolina[/URL] - Top 10 offensive rebounding [URL='https://kenpom.com/team.php?team=Nevada']Nevada[/URL] - 3 point dominant [URL='https://kenpom.com/team.php?team=Xavier']Xavier[/URL] - The exception. Mainly due to getting to the line and Blueitt himself being a 3pt and FT assassin [URL='https://kenpom.com/team.php?team=TCU']TCU[/URL] - Dominant big man (and top 25 offensive rebounding) [URL='https://kenpom.com/team.php?team=West+Virginia']West Virginia[/URL] - Top 10 offensive rebounding Syracuse was very bad on offense last year. They won with defense. They scored at or less than 1 point per possession in every game they won in the tournament, which is remarkably bad. We don't have the personnel to pull that off (all 5 of their starters were 6'5"+) and scheme most likely won't be as good. [/QUOTE]

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