Wait, what?

Ferry noted his teams didn’t shoot a lot of threes, but went to the foul line a lot and too high percentage shots. “We’re high scoring, with high assists,” said Ferry.

lol.

that should go over swimmingly for penn state

applecorps wrote:

I hope the PSU fans will be impressed with the weave.

No, I think that's his hair, he said entirely in jest (sorry Apple I love puns).

It amazes me that in this day and age, a reporter just takes the coach's word for it instead of checking the freely available statistics on the web. If he did, he'd have found that the only really high-scoring team the Dukes had in five years of Ferry (2015-16) did it by taking a lot of 3s (19th in the country in both 3-pointers attempted and made). Did they get to the line a lot? I know that was always supposed to be the Ferry system--make more FTs than your opponent attempts or something like that--but none of his teams actually excelled at that. Last year's team ranked 165th (7th in the A10) in free throw attempts, which was the best ranking of the Ferry era. The 2015-16 team was 166th nationally and 6th in the A10. And of course all five Ferry teams shot under 70% from the line, putting them in the bottom tier of the NCAAs every year. I would hope Chambers isn't entrusting FT shooting to Jimbo.

As for assists, believe it or not, the Dukes were a pretty good assists team in Ferry's middle three years, ranking 91st, 74th and 40th nationally and first, second and fourth in conference play. Were they really that great at moving the ball around or was it more a function of having a lot of guards on the floor and not scoring much off rebounds?

That said, defense was a much bigger problem for Ferry than offense. And recruiting too many players that really weren't good enough to play at the D-1 level, as their future college choices (or lack thereof) demonstrated. 

DennisC91 wrote:

It amazes me that in this day and age, a reporter just takes the coach's word for it instead of checking the freely available statistics on the web. If he did, he'd have found that the only really high-scoring team the Dukes had in five years of Ferry (2015-16) did it by taking a lot of 3s (19th in the country in both 3-pointers attempted and made). Did they get to the line a lot? I know that was always supposed to be the Ferry system--make more FTs than your opponent attempts or something like that--but none of his teams actually excelled at that. Last year's team ranked 165th (7th in the A10) in free throw attempts, which was the best ranking of the Ferry era. The 2015-16 team was 166th nationally and 6th in the A10. And of course all five Ferry teams shot under 70% from the line, putting them in the bottom tier of the NCAAs every year. I would hope Chambers isn't entrusting FT shooting to Jimbo.

As for assists, believe it or not, the Dukes were a pretty good assists team in Ferry's middle three years, ranking 91st, 74th and 40th nationally and first, second and fourth in conference play. Were they really that great at moving the ball around or was it more a function of having a lot of guards on the floor and not scoring much off rebounds?

That said, defense was a much bigger problem for Ferry than offense. And recruiting too many players that really weren't good enough to play at the D-1 level, as their future college choices (or lack thereof) demonstrated. 

Truth.

fjhryn wrote:

OK, Agree, I sat in Section  A2 Row K cringing every time our guards did the weave as time wound down only to throw up a prayer that rarely went down. But, I wish JF well at PSU, especially when they play that state school down the street. Let's not dwell on the past. KD is here & we are anxious to see how HIS team does in the coming years. Hope you all are in the stands to support the Dukes as we move forward. 

Every step of the way with Coach D. from the humble NJ outpost. Will see everyone at the Pitt game, and with so many A10 Saturday games scheduled, I might could pop up at Palumbo once in a while.