Sentences with phrase «possessions per game»

Butler's goal will be first to try and slow Marquette down, as the Golden Eagles try to play north of 75 possessions per game, per Her Hoop Stats, and Butler's more comfortable with that number under 70.

It also means that after defence and dispossession is considered, Hazard creates 3.5 more possessions per game than Bale creates.

Plugging in the regular season stats and using the pace formula, will show that Dallas averages 90 possessions per game, while Miami averages 93 possessions.

Pjanic loses 1.8 possessions per game — which is not a bad number.

He only lost 0.8 possessions per game in his last season at Juventus.

W / Embiid Out of the line up when Sixers have the # 1 ranked pace in the NBA — getting about 106 possessions per game but WITH Embiid in the line up they are Still 5th!

This obviously leads to several additional possessions per game, but it has also led to an uptick in three - point attempts.

Pace, or the average number of possessions per game, has skied to 97.3 this season.

Specifically, we understood that a shorter shot clock would cause an increase in the number of possessions per game, which would subsequently lead to higher - scoring games.

Marshall's average adjusted pace is a whopping 75 possessions per game.

Philadelphia posted a 70.5 percent true shooting with these two on the floor together in Game 3, but only created a pace of 93.6 possessions per game.

The sudden offensive success had a bit of an ulterior effect — after allowing just 11.2 possessions per game for opponents through nine games, the Cardinal allowed 12.7 over the last three regular season games.

Hughton's team have averaged 46 per cent share of possession per game so far this season, but against Everton that share dropped to just 41 per cent.

Brighton claim, on average, just 46 per cent of possession per game, they also average just 10.2 shots on goal per 90 — on both counts, they are among the lowest averages in the Premier League.

But when all defensive stats are accounted for, Gareth Bale actually only creates one more possession per game for Tottenham than Eden Hazard creates for Chelsea (there was an equation used to come up with that result, but I won't bore you with explaining it).

Not exact matches

Rooney's side saw a lot of the play in a game they will feel disappointed not to have picked up at least a point, having had 70 per cent possession, and limiting Chelsea to only two shots on target.

If Arsenal allow opposition teams a good foothold in the game as they seems to always do nowadays and continue to play with less than 50 % possession, they will have to score at least 3 goals or more per game to win matches.

All teams have at least 50 times in possession, + rack up 700 passes every game yet most teams average 1.5 goals or less per game.

Comparing apples to apples (by possessions, not per game or minute) Davis is actually outperforming peak [Hakeem] Olajuwon.

On it's own, of course, possession does not win you a football match, but when you see that we also have the highest number of successful through balls per game as well as the most successful dribbles.

They've been so stifling through their first 20 games — allowing just 0.801 points per possession and a field goal percentage of 32.1, both the lowest figures in the nation — that it is now customary for losing coaches to say something retweetably superlative about how they guard.

Tennessee is No. 7 overall in Ken Pomeroy's rankings, it ranks fifth in the country in adjusted defensive efficiency, and it entered Tuesday's game scoring a terrific 1.16 points per possession in conference contests.

If you hold the Warriors to a point per possession over an entire game, you will win.

The Hoos take an average of 21 seconds off the shot clock on every possession, making them the slowest team of the 351 in Division I. Bennett's defenses are awesome, and when you combine their awesomeness with the offense's pace, you get a defense that allowed (entering Saturday) 56 points per game.

Georgia still averaged a robust 7.8 yards per play for the game, but following three consecutive scoring drives in the first and second quarter, the Dawgs slowed down dramatically, scoring only once in their next 10 possessions.

«You know they've won games with 30, 25 per cent possession — that means they know what they want to do and are patient to have that killing instinct of a snake.

Dwight averaged 6.2 post-ups per game with a frequency of 36.3 % per nba.com, 5th highest in the league... despite him only scoring a paltry 0.83 pts per possession in the post

When Westbrook was on the floor (for 39 minutes per game), the Thunder outscored Houston by 4.9 points per 100 possessions.

The «Noles just held a top - 15 Gonzaga offense to 0.86 points per possession in a Sweet 16 game.

Arizona fell from 26th to 114th in Special Teams S&P +, costing the Wildcats a couple of points per game and contributing to Zona's fall from 3 - 2 to 0 - 2 in one - possession finishes.

Taken as an average per 90 minutes to level out the games and minutes played, Flamini this season comes top in the overall score, defensive score and interceptions and second in possession, pass completion percentage and blocks.

Their net rating of minus - 4.9 points per 100 possessions without Holiday in the game trails that of just John Wall (minus - 5.7), Chris Paul (minus - 6.1), Kemba Walker (minus - 6.8), and Russell Westbrook (minus - 12.7) among the league's 30 starting point guards, according to NBA.com's stats page.

Wittman has proven himself as a coach on the biggest stage, making strong in - game adjustments, calling well - executed after - timeout plays, devising an offensive system that's lit up the vaunted Bulls defense for 108 points per 100 possessions and managing his rotation with few complaints.

Entering the championship game, the Wildcats were No. 1 out of 351 Division I teams this year in points per 100 possessions.

According to whoscored.com, in the premiership, arsenel are leading the stats for possession, passing accuracy and shots per game, we are second for aerial duals won.

That helps the Badgers dominate time of possession (35:09 per game, third - best overall).

The Heat offense, as a result, is five points better per 100 possessions when Ellington is in the game.

Memphis was the best in the league at getting stops, but they were 27th in points per game (93.4) and 17th in points allowed per 100 possessions (104.9).

And staying with the numbers game, Ozil consistently covers more ground per game than nearly all our players bar AR15 and he loses possession less often than all of them.

You see more and more teams with 30 per cent possession who win the game, it was not always the case like with Swansea against Liverpool and we see that more and more.»

gabriel can play in games that require us to defend deeply without possession, and those that are open where we rule possession... per can only play good in games where we defend deeply, open games expose his lack of pace..

Ilkay Gundogan had the highest average of passes per game as well as a high passing accuracy, so he would be comfortable in possession for Moyes» men.

«You know they've won games with 30, 25 per cent possession - that means they know what they want to do and are patient to have that killing instinct of a snake.

Despite totally dominating the game from start to finish, enjoying 76 per cent possession, the goal looked like it was never going to come until our England striker popped up at the far post to nod in Christian Eriksen's corner for his 35th goal of the season and the 150th of his club career.

Arsenal completely controlled the first half, enjoying 70 per cent of the possession, but it was Sunderland who had the first chance of the game after five minutes.

Averaging just 37 percent possession through the season, while producing 75 long balls per game, Darmstadt made it difficult for opponents to beat them by not allowing them time or space.

Loss of possession statistics show that Luiz loses the ball about once per game (every 88 minutes), while Cahill goes 328.5 minutes on average without losing possession.

Except, of course, when it comes to shots conceded, where possession kings Manchester City are again top dogs, allowing just 6.3 efforts at Ederson's goal per game.

In the exact same sample space, Moreno made 2.7 possession wins in the final third per game.

Bournemouth have an attacking philosophy which is reflected in their stats: they are mid table with 12 shots per game, they try to own possession against smaller teams and have 50 % on average this season, they are 8th in passing success rate with 81 %, they are second to last in aerial duels with just 12 per game... they are 19th in tackles, 16th in interceptions, they are 8th in dribbles, and 3rd in drawing fouls.