agreed, but also, this conversation is happening at 85% of the teams in the nation... "if we could just play consistently well for both halves we could be (insert: '.500', 'a championship contender', 'the number 1 seed', 'ranked in the top ten', etc.)
then there's 14% of programs that feel they have no hope and/or don't care and the last 1% is made up of overconfident programs.
Having done no other research, it seems likely that this is targeted at specific schools rather than the whole. That 25k out of 500k stat appears to be misleading, perhaps purposefully?
... and starting that same game, from 20:00 - 10:06 in the first half, USF scored 7pts. A terrible 10 minutes... for them.
Want to win the conference? Keep doing that. Right?
If so, we have to stick to the script of incredibly tough defense, with offensive sets that take a long time so guys can catch their breath some & get back after it on defense. It's not unheard of for 5-6 possessions to come away empty (for any team). If we happen to dictate pace (and we often do), that same 5-6 possessions can stretch 8-10min... easy, because both teams don't get shots off until the last 3-4 seconds of shot clock. If we were an up-&-down, transition-style team, those same 5-6 possessions may only take ~4min.
It is what it is. If this team were immune to scoring droughts, we'd be undefeated and ranked.
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