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UK's performance this year has largely been dictated by their 3 standout freshmen: De'Aaron Fox, Malik Monk, and Bam Adebayo. UK's performance has been pretty consistent with these three in the game, but they've been more volatile when one of these three
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Another really weird game for UofL...is this a trend? In my last UofL newsletter, I wrote about why the Virginia Tech game was an extremely weird one. In that game, UofL had their best offensive game of the year but their worst defensive game of the year. The good
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One of the weirder games you'll see UofL play In a previous newsletter, I predicted Virginia Tech would be a great matchup for UofL because they fit a pattern: teams relying on great shooting, but who were suspect at rebounding. UofL tends to limit teams shooting, and the
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A Season of Ups and Downs Kentucky's season so far can basically be broken into 3 segments: * The first 15 games, through Arkansas on Jan 7th, was their best stretch * The next 9 games (Vanderbilt Jan 10 through LSU Feb 7) was their worst stretch * The last 4
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Some key UofL stats against varying number of opponent starters. Note that UofL's +/- per possession is much lower against 5 starters, but pretty consistent against 4 or fewer. UofL has a tougher time on offense vs starters, but not on defense The chart above shows some key
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Many Kentucky basketball writers and fans raised the issue of Malik Monk's poor rebounding recently, when he went 5 consecutive halves without getting a rebound. While that is not usually a good sign, in this case it's not anything to be concerned about. In this Hoops
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For my subscribers, I wanted to send out a quick primer on some of the stats I like to reference. I realize that not everybody is used to some of the stats and terminology, so I'll send this out and post it on my site, hoopsinsight.com. Also,
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UofL's opponents effective field goal percentage in each game, compared to that opponent's season-long average. For example, Evansville had an eFG% of 31.6% vs UofL, and is averaging 47.8% for the full season. Of their 24 games this season, UofL has held opponents below
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In this edition of the Kentucky Wildcats newsletter from Hoops Insight, I'm going to look at two areas of relative statistical weakness this year for Kentucky: Forcing turnovers, and defensive rebounding. I'll look at UK's game-by-game performances to evaluate whether these are vulnerabilities, and
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In this edition of the Kentucky Wildcats newsletter from Hoops Insight, I'm going to dive into the data for UK's loss against Florida, try to explain what went wrong, and make the case for why it's not time for UK fans to panic yet.
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UofL Stats with Quentin Snider (through Jan 14th), without Snider before his injury, and since his injury. Stats through the NC State game on Jan 29th. In order to understand how UofL is playing differently, we'll look at the team's stats in 3 different situations: * With
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Addendum to Newsletter #2: Briscoe's impact on UK/Kansas I realized after I'd sent out the previous UK newsletter that I completely forgot to include some key data to make my point that Isaiah Briscoe was the key to the game. Not only did Briscoe help