tigeraddikt 1,603 Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 51 minutes ago, boomstick said: From a raw data standpoint, the defensive numbers look really bad. But if you look at efficiency, this team is better than either of Pearl's first two Auburn teams and on par with two of his NCAA Tennessee teams. Looking at efficiency numbers, Pearl's teams were pretty successful on at least one end of the court during his time at Tennessee. The years they weren't great defensively they made up for it by being extremely efficient offensively. And the years they were really efficient defensively they were still very efficient offensively. Since Pearl likes to push the pace, it requires efficiency more so than dominance on one end or the other. Dominance would be nice, but it's really difficult to do defensively when you allow opponents as many possessions as Pearl's system allows. Unfortunately, lately there hasn't been much offensive efficiency, which significantly affects the defensive efficiency. Pearl has only had one team since his Tennessee coaching days that was a great, efficient defense. Most of their great seasons involved very efficient offensive basketball. Auburn isn't efficient offensively right now and was never great defensively to begin with. So, it makes the defense look much worse than it probably should. I feel like I read the same word a bunch of times just now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomstick 1,315 Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 1 hour ago, tigeraddikt said: I feel like I read the same word a bunch of times just now. Yeah, if you get nothing else from that post, one word will certainly stand out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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