We scored on 40 some percent of our offensive rebound possessions last year. It really skews the raw FG% numbers. Obviously I’d rather we shoot 34% or better from 3 as a team, but just looking at FG% isn’t really taking everything into account. Especially when you consider that the team is actually built to get those boards. It wasn’t an accident, they were built that way. Move the % up a couple % and not have a bizarre slew of injuries and illness down the stretch and we are looking at an all time Illini season. We saw quite a few glimpses of that before the uncontrollables rained down.
If, in fact, we did score on 40% of possessions we got from offensive rebounds that is a low Off Eff number.
You really want to be producing over one point per possession so scoring over 50% of your possessions. What that means is we didn't capitalize as well as we should have
basically because of a combination of more bad shot selection/shooting and bad offensive scheme from Junior Underwood.
Our EFG% was nothing special (99th) in country.
As far as injuries, etc keeping us from an all time season - never had that sense.
We were healthy at end of year and got handled by MD and Kentucky and there is no explanation for what happened with Duke.
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