Comments on: Reducing turnovers would improve Pistons’ defense

By: Jakob Eich

Jakob Eich — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:45:57 +0000

Has anyone read the piece on Truehoop where it explained that the teams with the lowest turnover ratio tend to have the highest offensive ratings in the league. The Hawks are one of the examples given. They have one of the highest offensive ratings per 100 possessions in the league. The Clippers drastically improved their rating by adding Chris Paul …. A Hall-of-Fame PG usually helps if you want to reduce your turnovers. Anyway the point is turnovers and offense seem to correlate significantly, it could really improve our performance. After all, a bad shot is still better than no shot. A turnover always creates a four or five point swing, usually that’s only said in crunch time, but it happens throughout the game.

By: KNIGHT and STUCKEY

KNIGHT and STUCKEY — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:50:29 +0000

But lets now focus on the offense please, LAST IN THE LEAGUE. Are we going to be anybody with Defense, no its the offense that needs attention.

By: KNIGHT and STUCKEY

KNIGHT and STUCKEY — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:48:33 +0000

My name says it all!

By: Max

Max — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:40:04 +0000

The most underrated and overlooked aspect of defense is offense.
Stuckey needs to start with Knight because it would alleviate a lot of the ball handling and running the offense pressure off of Knight. They would at least immediately be a good rebounding back court and the front court could use the help.

By: wiLQ

wiLQ — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:20:36 +0000

Thanks for the shout-out!
“This makes a difference because offensive possessions that end in steals lead to easier opportunities for opponents”
I’ve tried to tackle this issue on my blog at some point but in the end I filed it under “I’ll do that later” ;-)

By: apa8ren9

apa8ren9 — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:11:14 +0000

Very good analysis and very good article. And the newspapers wonder why their readership is down. Do they even bother to try and give us some insight to the sports we love? Its good you guys have this site to put up insightful, meaningful articles for Pistons fans.