billo
Years ago
How did we even get close? - stats analysis
Looking at the stats for the Cairns game I'm struggling to see how we were within 2 at the end.
FG% - 43% sixers 42% cairns
pretty much even.
Steals blocks and turnovers all netted off against each other to within 1, so again, pretty much even.
Then the big ones, Taipans win the rebound count 52-42 and the foul count 26-11!!!
We won the assists 20-13 but that's really more a guage of how the points are scored than how many are scored, and how much possession each team had.
9 threes at 50% vs 6 at 22% was in our favour, as was foul shooting, but just looking at the box score straight up I couldn't beleive we were as close as we were.
No mention in the write up on NBL.com of the game being tanked, it'll take the courage of one B Nagi to bring the truth to the masses. Out of interest Isaac, if the same thing happened at the Dome would you make reference to the tanking in your report for the Sixers site?
