Paint Touches

Marquette’s defensive stats are bad. What does it mean when the underlying ones are worse?

If you have a Twitter, like well made informative charts, and don’t follow @jgtrends on Twitter, you’re really missing out on some of the most insightful advanced metrics in college basketball as a whole. Yesterday in particular, he put out this chart of the points each shot has been worth to top-25 teams this year, […]

Nowhere, chillax. When I saw this Tweet, my jaw hit the floor, but, unlike most things Markus Howard, in a bad way. Top40 Isolation Usage and Efficiency. @Big12Conference watch out for @BaylorMBB taking you off the bounce this season. @ButlerMBB with amazing efficiency. @MarquetteMBB interesting situation with M.Howard using 64% of Marq Iso plays but […]

Markus can score just about any way, but his efficiency isn’t equal across the board.

I am as big a fan of Kirk Goldsberry’s shot chart visualizations as about anything else on the internet. So when he put this out last night, I knew I had to try and recreate it. It’s nowhere near as aesthetically pleasing, but I think conveys quite a bit of info in one image. I […]

Marquette’s defense has struggled all year, but the deficiencies are even worse in clutch situations.