Remember when all we talked about was turnovers? The problem obviously raised its ugly head last night, as MSU posted a horrific turnover percentage of 31.4% against Purdue’s hounding man-to-man defense. I thought we should take a long-term view of the team’s turnover problems. The graph below shows MSU’s game-by-game turnover percentages over the last [...]
Posts Tagged ‘turnovers’
Turnovers revisited
Posted in stats analysis, tagged turnovers on February 18, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Don't look now . . .
Posted in stats analysis, tagged turnovers on February 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
. . . but MSU has actually forced their opponents to turn the ball over more times than they themselves have turned the ball over this season.
Who's turning the ball over?
Posted in stats analysis, tagged delvon roe, kalin lucas, korie lucious, raymar morgan, turnovers on December 9, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Coming into this season, we thought MSU might have finally beaten the turnover bug. They had ended the 2007-08 season by posting sub-20% turnover percentages in nine of their final 11 games. To date, though, turnovers continue to be the team’s weak point on offense this season. Their turnover percentage of 21.0% ranks 163rd in [...]
Putting it all together: Offensive efficiency during the Izzo era
Posted in stats analysis, tagged msu basketball history, offensive efficiency, tom izzo, turnovers on September 9, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Here’s a brief overview of what we’ve learned from our survey of MSU’s statistical trends on offense over the last 12 years, broken down by the “four factors” of tempo-free statistical analysis: Turnovers: Minimizing turnovers has never been a strength for MSU under Izzo. Three seasons were particularly bad (1997-97, 2001-02, and 2006-07), with the [...]
Have we always turned the ball over this much?
Posted in links, stats analysis, tagged drew neitzel, msu basketball history, tom izzo, turnovers on July 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Thursday Links Good news for those of us that will be driving down to the MSU-UNC game at Ford Field after work on Wednesday, December 3: The start time is 9:15, so we’ll have extra time to get down there. The game will be broadcast on ESPN. The other top-notch match-up is Duke-Purdue. That game [...]
