One of the most common ignorant complaints that keeps getting repeated on this forum is that this team is subject to scoring droughts. Other posters have pointed out that everybody has scoring droughts, and anybody who watches much basketball knows this is true–even in the NBA. I’ve started a new thread to highlight the fallacy of this boringly repeated charge, in the hope that I never have to read it again. And just to drive the point home–last year’s Duke team, which was touted as one of the great teams of all time, led by a generational player who is tearing it up this year in the NBA, went seven minutes without a field goal against us, and had only one basket in the last ten minutes.
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I don’t think you get it.
When the other team goes through a scoring drought, it’s because of our suffocating defense.
When we go into a drought, it’s because our offense sucks. The other teams don’t play defense.
BTW - this is sarcasm
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Competitive games have an ebb and a flow. Sometimes it’s the defense, sometimes it is the offense going cold and missing wide open shots. Teams that hit 50% of their field goals don’t make every other one. Streaks and droughts are all part of a game that people often like to oversimplify and boil down to clichés or catch phrases. It doesn’t bother me, not much does. Aggie does. Screw those dummies.
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I wish there was a site that had numbers to back it up. It does feel like we go on 5+ min droughts more than others. But I think that is probably based on paying way more attention to UH than other teams.
Closest I have seen, to a stat that measures this, is the Evan Miya’s killshot. This includes how many killshots a team has conceded, which is giving up a 10-0 run to the other team. Going by this we are no different than anyone else.
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How many scoring droughts will we have against ATM
Oh heck, I thought this was a Houston Rockets thread. 31 points in an NBA half is the true definition of a scoring drought
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