In Reply to: There is a reason everyone takes efficiency numbers seriously posted by mh on December 20, 2025 at 23:18:43
I would note that there are 2 ends of the court, with both being determinative to SCOREBOARD.
It's why I responded above to our friend, B2B (who is sports savvy) that I have yet to see a basketball court anywhere in the world with a scoreboard that tracks pts per possession live, since the D end is also bigly inputting to the final SCOREBOARD, which is everyone's main focus.
I never maintained, in contrast to the fool below, that a team with decidedly low O possessions per game yet a high pts per O possession, couldn't be a top-tier Scoring Offense leader, as long as they accommodated that low possessions O per game with a solid D effort.
Consider the CP game which we've been referring to since Friday. CP is a horror show on D! Out of 361 Div 1 teams, CP ranks an unbelievable 354th in Scoring Defense! They couldn't guard 5 traffic cones on the Pauley floor. Since there are 2 ends of the court, does not the CP absence of D play into UCLA's solid points per possession on O?
Similarly, Cronin's plodding stuck in the mud O is an atrocious 269th of 365 Div 1 teams measured in terms of O possessions per game. Do we just ignore UCLA's corresponding D effort as contributory to UCLA's strong points per possession on their acutely low possessions/gm.
If O efficiency..................viz..............points per possession...........is the do-all and end-all, why keep track of the score on the SCOREBOARD and just track KP's O efficiency in terms of pts per possession, to the exclusion of half of the floor//half of the game?
If everyone followed KP's inviolable "formula", Vegas would be sitting on the sideline.
P.S. I hope I'm not making the fool below, who got blown out of the water on the BZ Football Board, cry. I don't want to get hit with a child abuse rap on a Bruin Board...