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We are sixth in the conference in time of possession, which, almost by definition is pretty average.  Still, it is a far cry form the days when we were routinely at the top (often by over a minute over the next highest team), and rarely were outside the top-3.  On the plus side, our scoring offense doesn't seem to have suffered from it; we have scored more points per game this year than any year since 2011.

Where it maybe has hurt us a little bit is in scoring defense.  However, 22 ppg is about on par with what we have done in the last couple years (20.4 in 2016, 22.6 in 2015), but significantly worse than when we have had dominant defenses (16.4 ppg in 2014, 19 ppg in 2013, 17.2 ppg in 2012, and 17.4 ppg in 2010).

Bottom line, the quick scoring drives has not seemed to hurt our offense; it has maybe affected our defense (but hard to separate it from other factors, like our weak run defense).

BC

[BostonCard]

We are sixth in the conference in time of possession, which, almost by definition is pretty average.  Still, it is a far cry form the days when we were routinely at the top (often by over a minute over the next highest team), and rarely were outside the top-3.  On the plus side, our scoring offense doesn't seem to have suffered from it; we have scored more points per game this year than any year since 2011.

Where it maybe has hurt us a little bit is in scoring defense.  However, 22 ppg is about on par with what we have done in the last couple years (20.4 in 2016, 22.6 in 2015), but significantly worse than when we have had dominant defenses (16.4 ppg in 2014, 19 ppg in 2013, 17.2 ppg in 2012, and 17.4 ppg in 2010).

Bottom line, the quick scoring drives has not seemed to hurt our offense; it has maybe affected our defense (but hard to separate it from other factors, like our weak run defense).

BC