SCORING (LACK OF) [merged thread]

To Ncorbust - ok, so you put the onus on me. I am the original poster who stated that with 3 low-scoring starters(stef, doty, kelly - 22.6 ppg avg.) it will be very difficult winning any championship. Using your excellent research on 5 uconn national championship teams hers's the data on the 3 lowest scoring starters for each year -
01 - 02 - Bird 19.9 ppg, Ralph 9.7 ppg Jones/Shumacher 9.8 ppg - 30.4 ttl ppg - 7.8 ppg advantage
02 - 03 - Strother 10.1 ppg, Turner/Battle 9.1 ppg, Conlon 6.9 ppg - 26.1 ttl ppg -3.5 ppg advantage
03 - 04 - Strother 11 ppg, Moore 9.5 ppg,Conlon 5.9 ppg - 26.4 ttl ppg -3.8 ppg advantage
08 - 09 - Renee 16.5 ppg, Greene 8.7 ppg, Hayes/Doty 8.5 ppg -33.7 ttl ppg - 11.1 ppg advantage
09 - 10 - Greene 11.4 ppg, Hayes 10.2 ppg, Doty 6.8 ppg - 28.4 ttl ppg - 5.8 ppg advantage
The average ppg advantage for the 3'somes for the above 5 years over Stef-Doty-Kelly is 6.4 points per game.
Looking at Uconn's 3 losses this year - St.Johns 57-56, ND 74-67(ot)(Uconn scored 61 in regulation) , Baylor 66-61, I think everyone would agree that Uconn;s defense was very, very good. In fact it's been outstanding all season. The problem was in the offense - lack of scoring.(an average of 59.3 points in the 3 losses) If you add the above parameter of 6.4 ppg advantage the NC 3;somes had to each one our losses those 3 losses would become wins! By the way, in those 3 losses the trio of Stef-Doty-Kelly had a grand totsl of 49 points - an average of 5.4 points per player per game.
Question - (Fill in the blank)
If Uconn were to play St.Johns, Notre Dame & Baylor in the 4th, 5th & 6th rounds of the NCAA tournament this year, it would be __ for Uconn to win the national championship.

A -easy B -fairly easy C-fairly difficult D-difficult E-very difficult

I believe any reasonable person who knows anything about basketball in general & the Huskies in particular would choose D or E. Why ? , not because of our defense but because of our offense.

If Notre Dame were to play St.Johns, UConn & Baylor in the 4th, 5th & 6th rounds of the NCAA tournament this year, it would be __ for Uconn to win the national championship.

A -easy B -fairly easy C-fairly difficult D-difficult E-very difficult

I believe any reasonable person who knows anything about basketball in general & the Irish in particular would choose D or E. Why ? , not because of our defense but because of our offense.

If Baylor were to play St.Johns, Notre Dame & UConn in the 4th, 5th & 6th rounds of the NCAA tournament this year, it would be __ for Uconn to win the national championship.

A -easy B -fairly easy C-fairly difficult D-difficult E-very difficult

I believe any reasonable person who knows anything about basketball in general & the Bears in particular would choose D or E. Why ? , not because of our defense but because of our offense.

It is D or E for any team playing Baylor.

Sorry to have stooped to your level.

You set the bar, trust me.

What would happen if you switched Doty and Lewis? It would make up for that difference.

And since Lewis gets starter minutes and Doty gets bench-like minutes, I think that these numbers have NO impact on being able to win the NC.

This is getting too much like school.

This thread is death by a thousand cuts.....

is NCorBust and TheLoneGranger the same person...

Isn't it about "Tebow Time" by now?

Apparently you disagree with everything. This mornings Hartford courant has a great article about huskies terrible perimeter game lately. Do you agree ?

I disagree with everything? Nah....just most of what you have posted in this thread.

Facts are facts. They have been in a shooting slump. To you, that makes them a poor shooting team. To me, it makes them in a slump.

To me, it means they'll come out of their slump (s) at the right time - Big East and NCAA tournaments.