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Hi,

My team is one of the best teams in Israel and has the best offensive flow in Israel I.1
I'm always between average(med) - respectable(low).
Nevertheless, the average number of assists my team gets is pretty low 18.7 per game.
I've played against teams with inept and they got more assists than I did. I've tried every tactic and never got over 25 assists and it was on a 40 points difference win...

What can I do to raise the number of assists and what can I do to get better FG percentage which is currently less than 43% and 33% behind the arc?

Would it be wiser to sell one of my amazing PGs and get better shooters?

(I've sent similar message last season but got no helpful answers - maybe this days people's expertise with the game became better...)

Thanks,

Yaniv

Hi, Thanks for your reply.

I'm not sure I have the proper stamina for FCP.
I've tried FCP on last season's tie breaker and the coach somehow decided not to use my subs. I've made many steals on the first half, but the second half was disastrous.
This season my offensive flow is even better, but I haven't tried FCP yet.
What you're saying is that my offensive flow affects my defense as well?

OK, I might try it.
Isn't it strange that the only way to exploit Offensive Flow is use a defensive tactic?
The rule says it causes more assisted shots and better shots...

The rule says it causes more assisted shots and better shots...

true.
now read your sentence again.

see?

and better shots...

you don't need many assists to have a good offensive flow.

the reason a team has excessive assists, or very few assists is depending on the fact that you have players with good passing or not.

If all or most of your player's passing skill is significantly lower then their shotskills, they will rather shoot then pass the ball. The opposite is also true, if the players have very good passing skills, but bad scoring skills, they will want to pass the ball rather then try to score, which leads to much much more assists.
Both cases aren't that good imo. I think the best situation is where your players can opt to shoot, but might give a good pass as well. this will happen when they have balance between their skills...

So, remember, a very high amount of assists isn't that good for your team!

OK but this theory doesn't fit my team...

Here's the skills of my PG, SG & SF who played the last match
Passing:
14, 10, 9

JS/JR:
10/9, 14/9, 10/8

seems pretty balanced isn't it? All shot pretty badly on the last match
6-22, 7-17, 7-20

Can you explain this?

Last edited by yanivsag at 10/5/2008 10:58:11 AM

well, I don't know if you looked at other teams, but it doesn't look that bad to me. You can't expect that even if your playes have high skills they will score every shot.

Also there are defenders. If in your league the other teams have a lot of good defenders, they'll keep you from scoring much as well.

Your playes are balanced, and so is the result of your amount of assists, you don't have an exceeding amount, yet you don't have few either. I think many teams don't get 15 assists averaged each game...

I didn't mention this before, but let's asume a team with a PG with very high passing and low scoring skills, and the other players have low passing and high scoring skills. That team will get many assists, since the PG will almost pass every time and shoot seldom himself, while the receiving player won't pass the ball but try to score himself.
Don't forget that if you pass the ball, but the receiver doesn't score it, no assist is given, no matter how good the passing skills of the players.

The only thing the good offensive flow has given me was only 6 Turnovers per game.
18.7 assists is not very bad, but most teams in my league get more assists.

but most teams in my league get more assists

well then they probably have some players who are less good at scoring then yours.

Every team gets turnovers, no matter how high the offensive flow. Much also depends on the tactics of your opponents, if they play pressure a lot, then you can expect even more then 6 turnovers each game, unless they chose this tactic unwisely.
:)