But Then I Saw This

Ed. Note: But Then I Saw This is a recurring series where stats, preferably of the tempo free variety, are used to crush the very fundamentals beliefs of the author.  This is entry the first.

The always great Luke Winn posted this handy chart in his weekly power rankings:

All year, or at least for the past month plus after it became clear that Maryland wasn't All That Good, the talking point around the internet water cooler was about the lack of a point guard and an inability to feed the Big Blue and Gold Alex Len and his counterparts in the post.  And make no mistake, I believed that was absolutely true.  Still do, to an extent, but this chart sort of puts to rest the notion that there's a ton more post feeding to do that's been left on the table.

Now you can make the case that Maryland really should be higher because Alex Len is that much of a specimen, and it doesn't ring completely hollow, but Len is a big guy without a whole mess of post moves so it's tough to swallow.  Bottom line, Maryland does feed the post.

There's also the matter of Maryland being 8th on this list in efficiency behind conference-mate Georgia Tech in both not only efficiency but number.  Now we should remember that this is all post touches, so Slim Charles and Padgett and Shaq all figure prominently as well as the guards, but it's still an ugly number.

So yeah, back to the whole, "We have a team of ten guys who turn the ball over an inordinate amount of times" to explain everything broken about our offense.