Sports Illustrated’s Luke Winn manages the website’s college basketball power rankings throughout the year, and the column made a comeback to rank the 16 remaining teams. (UK checks in at No. 8; Ohio State is No. 1.) For each team, he provides some analysis. Here’s his for UK, a comparison between how John Wall and Brandon Knight scored:
As shown, Wall scored a lot more in transition, a testament to both his and the team’s ability to run the floor and get to the rim.
Knight’s game is more versatile and well-rounded (and no less effective; Knight needs seven points to tie Wall for most points by a UK freshman in a season). He scores more off screens, hand offs, and pick and rolls, which head coach John Calipari has talked about installing to fit Knight’s game since the beginning of the year.
If I had a statistical system advanced enough to do Derrick Rose and Tyreke Evans, I would. My guess would be that theirs would look more similar to Wall’s, but that’s just a guess.
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