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turnovers improving!
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 5:56 pm
by hitachi7
We were near the worst in the league in that department, now we're 12th with 15.33 per game. I'd expect that to continue to improve. Course, our rebounding has gotten worse with the NOH and MEM games. All we gotten do is somehow put it all together.
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Re: turnovers improving!
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:03 pm
by DaDragicShow
If it wasnt for Amare mishandling the ball most of the time. We'd be top 10th in that category.
Re: turnovers improving!
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 5:14 am
by lilfishi22
Are you sure? 15.3 is good for 19th in the league according to ESPN, unless I'm reading the wrong thing.
arizonaplaya85 wrote:If it wasnt for Amare mishandling the ball most of the time. We'd be top 10th in that category.
Nash is averaging close to 4 per game and Amare is averaging something like 2.6 a game. If Nash lowers his turnovers by 1 a game, we'd by top 10 and if Amare lowers his TO's by 1 as well, we'd be top 5.
On the other end, we're 23rd in opponents TO's.
Re: turnovers improving!
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 5:52 am
by hitachi7
Sorry, by 12th I meant 12th worst, which is the same as 19th best. But that's much improved from where we were, and I expect it to continue to improve. We were among the best in the league in that department in the SSOL days.
It says a lot that we have the record we do in light of all this, but I really hope the improved rebounding (over the SSOL days) from the beginning of the year wasn't just a fluke.
Re: turnovers improving!
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:19 am
by lilfishi22
lol 19th best sounds better than 12th worst.
Re: turnovers improving!
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:58 am
by dantian
lilfishi22 wrote:Are you sure? 15.3 is good for 19th in the league according to ESPN, unless I'm reading the wrong thing.
arizonaplaya85 wrote:If it wasnt for Amare mishandling the ball most of the time. We'd be top 10th in that category.
Nash is averaging close to 4 per game and Amare is averaging something like 2.6 a game. If Nash lowers his turnovers by 1 a game, we'd by top 10 and if Amare lowers his TO's by 1 as well, we'd be top 5.
On the other end, we're 23rd in opponents TO's.
In other words, if either Nash reduced his TOs by 25% or Amare his by 40%, we'd be top-10.
The good news is that both seem to be committing less TOs lately. Amare for getting better conditioned to hold onto the ball in the paint. Nash for being calmer and less forcing issues all by himself.