Come one what? 11 offensive rebounds and 26 free throws more for the winning team. That's about 15 extra shot opportunities. I don't think any type of offensive flow would have helped.
You forgot the turnover difference. Actually, the number of shots for each team was just about equal (they took 93, we took 90).
The rebounds I get, the huge difference in fouls I don't. You will also notice that our shooting % were just about the same, which makes absolutely no sense (our d should trump their O no matter how you slice it and our flow was a full 1 level higher, facing an outside d that was 2 full levels lower).
That's true, I forgot the turnover difference. As a matter of fact, if we assume (which is of course an approximation) that fouls come mostly from missed two point shots, then the winning team had about 12 possessions more than the losing team.
At 90 points per 100 possessions, this translates to close to 11 points. This certainly makes the result look less unusual. You can't limit your analysis to how attack vs. defense team ratings look.
As far as offensive efficiency is concerned, Canada had a significant edge in three-point shooting, which makes perfect sense given the slightly higher offensive flow and the better outside attack vs outside defense ratio. The problem with losing this game was that you gave up too much in the other zones (ID and Rebs), which allowed Suomi to win by sheer volumes.
Last edited by GM-kozlodoev at 1/5/2010 3:51:46 AM
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