Season reviewAfter the already finished season, it's time to look at some points.
During this season I track the points, rebounds etc of our guys. But that's not the only stats I watched. After every game I made a analysis of the defense. It's an important indicator for the team and for me.
Team defenseI calculate the team defense like this:
All shot attempts from opposing team: 106
All open shot attempts: 51
--> 55 defended shot attempts
successful defended shots: 22
--> successful rate: 22/55 =
40%I made this for every of the seven games:
40% ; 50,94% ; 55,56% ; 60% ; 56,6% ; 63,64% and 62,3% --> average of the seven games:
55,01%So 55% of the defended shots were blocked or altered. 45% went in or ended with a shooting foul.
The top teams are around 55-60%, so from a defensive point ov view, our team is already on a good way.
This brings me to another point:
I never saw a team like the swedish NT. The amount of defense skills is great. You trained your players in a way which leads to huge possibilities of defense tactics. I really like the fact, that you have Guards with double digit ID or bigs with double digit OD who can even defend some guards and forwards. From a defense standpoint you only have to give some players (or future players) a final touch and they will be awesome. Really great work!!!
I also took a look at the "real defense". The real defense is the success rate compaired to all shots. 724 shots were taken against us and we defended 236 (32,73%) of these shots successful. Here we should aim for 35%+.
Players defenseThis season 12 players defended all the shot attempts. Six of these players have a success rate of over 60%.
Coming from these stats, I would like to express some skill wishes (for future players or your current plans/trainees).
- For PF and C, ID 17 is a must. For offense typs IS 17 also.
- A defensive player like Widerström should be build again. I tink he showed how great his skill set is and that such a player can contribute a lot. Gijon is on his way, but he has a slightly different skill set and focus.
- WE NEED GUARDS! Simple as it is, we have a great lack of SGs. Guys with JS 17+ and JR 17+ and the "swedish defense" ;)
- Stamina... you know how to train it. Thanks that your players have such high stamina. This is one of the reasons why the defense ratings could survive for 48 minutes.
- SB. The last point is SB, a skill which is already part of the NT but could be used more. Not every player needs it (guards who start with SB 1 or 2 shouldn't train it) but it helps SF, PF and C to defend more effective. Widerström and Sandbom showed us how they can use their SB skills ;)
Thanks for this season and your work (minutes, game shape, even some skill ups). From the current point we climbed up 12 world ranks and made a solid foundation for the next weeks. On Monday we will play against Greece. They are the best european team which couldn't qualify for the next round. So I expect a hard and difficult game.
Last edited by Nachtmahr at 1/9/2016 2:14:27 PM