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On the stats sheet under the Blocks tab there are 2 columns BS and BA. What do they stand for, I always thought a block is a block.

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Blocked Shots? Blocked Attempts?

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I don’t understand, aren’t all blocked shots blocked attempts to make a basket? How can you have a block on a non shot?

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Blocked shots
Blocked against (how many times the player got blocked)

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I may be dense, but aren’t all of our blocked shots against the other team? I doubt any team ties to block their own teams shots. Can I get something better than a two word response because I’m confused and if I have to I will throw down the Old Guy card.

All of KU’s blocked shots were BA and I know they blocked at least one of our shots.

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Players from the other team can also block our players shots. Showing “Blocks Against (BA)” breaks down who was getting blocked on the team.

Tugler can have 5 BS and 1 BA, meaning he blocked 5 shots, but he also had 1 field goal attempt of his blocked as well.

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I went to Google and got this explanation which matches coogiehowser:

BLK or BS (Blocked Shots)

Players get a blocked shot for clearly rejecting or deflecting a legitimate field goal attempt. This counts as a block even if the defensive team does not recover the ball. NBA box scores include a stat for “BA” which stands for “block against” meaning how many of that player’s shots were blocked.

But I swear I saw at least on of our shots blocked.

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im just going to sit back and wait for someone to confirm which is the answer lol

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This is not a great example because Kansas didn’t block any of our shots so you can’t see it from the other side, but look at Tugler having 5 Blocked Shots (BS) and then look at the Kansas player Blocked Against (BA) column and you will see the breakdown of who Tugler blocked.

Let’s not over complicate things.

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Better Example, BA’s for Houston equal the BS’s of Utah. Mylik was the one Houston player that got blocked in the game.

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Maybe I will have to rewatch the game again to see if I was dreaming when I thought I saw one of our shots get blocked. I rewatched the game already and we won again, but I wasn’t tensed up like watching it live. Oh, and we won again. :smiley:

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Blocked attempts was the funniest attempt of an answer.

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Bachelor of Science vs Bachelor of Arts

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I still got tense rewatching OT even knowing the outcome haha

Just to finish on the BS/BA stuff, it’s similar to the Fouls Column that breaks down Personal Fouls and Fouls Drawn. J’wan did a good job of only getting 4 Fouls called on him, but drew 8 fouls against KU. They could probably do something with the steals column as well, where they showed not only how many steals a player had, but how many times they had gotten the ball stolen away from them.

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Versus Utah, Tugler played less than Ced Lath.

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“Akeem”. Shots Altered by Block Attempt.

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Cheezz, are they trying to turn BB stats into baseball crazy?

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Block Assists?

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