Also important to note is that we didn't detect an obvious trend of the points per possession getting better with more touches,
Then again...
Of course there are notable variations on these numbers -- both frequency and efficiency -- from team to team.
The only thing conclusive, at least for me, from the first part of the article where those quotes came from is their median and average of the touches they gathered to find a league wide trend.
So Ball Movement Advocates -- here's your proof: the faster the ball is moving from one player to another, the better the results overall!
benji wrote:Passing the ball is faster than dribbling it somewhere, it forces defensive rotations to be faster.
Same thing.
Interesting this...
One interesting aspect is that turnovers didn't increase with a higher number of touches per second, so the idea that "frantic" movement and passing is dangerous seems misplaced.
My contention with this is that a turnover means the end of possession and end of touches, so if the touches keep increasing it makes sense that the turnovers won't increase because the team still has the damn ball.
at a glance suggests that when a player is holding the ball for more than four seconds he's costing his team. In truth since in the beginning of a possession the initial ball handler may well use a lot of time, it's likely that holding the ball for more than a second without some kind of action (dribble, pass, shot) is a bad thing!
Makes me wonder if Mike D'Antoni has a similar thinking with this in his SSOL system.
Of course players who are excellent dribblers and penetrators also tend to want the ball in their hands a lot, which is why we may find in our "chemistry experiments" series that having too many ace dribblers in a five man unit may be overkill, just as the Knicks are having trouble adjusting to a Marbury-Francis backcourt.
lol always good for a laugh that combo.
) You could almost say passes are to generate less dribble shots.
