http://www.kansas.com/sports/college/big-12/kansas-state/article10145711.html“We tried to run and what did we do?” Weber said. “We threw it to the band. We threw it to you guys. We threw it to everyone else. I had to (make a change). ... Our biggest problem is not the initial fast break. It’s the in-between, when there is nothing there and it is three on 3 1/2, or four on five. It is making the smart decision not to go in there and move the ball in space.
“That is where we just (struggled). That is why we really started to control things. I wanted to get a shot off every possession.”
He felt like he had no choice.
“We had so many turnovers in the first half (against Georgia) that I was like, ‘Hey, people are yelling. I’m yelling. We have got to do something,’” Weber said. “So at the beginning of the year we thought we had the athletes to run. We could use ball screens and spread people out. We just didn’t make the right decisions, so we tried to control it.”
I'll take him at his word and give him Georgia for the cut off. Here are the numbers:
Pace Efficiency eFG% TO% OR% FTR
First 13 games 64.8 104.6 52.9 22.6 34.3 57.6
Last 11 games 60.4 96.8 45.3 19.2 31.1 41.2
So pace did slow by 4.5 possessions and TO% went down significantly, but everything else is worse. Granted, we've played a better schedule since then, but still.
Here's the defensive comparison.
Pace Efficiency eFG% TO% OR% FTR
First 13 games 64.8 99.1 51.1 21.2 28.0 44.1
Last 11 games 60.4 101.5 49.1 20.0 32.0 41.0
Also, many other dynamic since then with the Nino injury and Foster/Malek suspensions. The effort to slow pace did work and the TO numbers did improve, but its hard to say that it made us a better team.