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School A played the hane team fairly even on most of the comparisons exe
cept that they could not hit the goal, making only 16% of their field goals, while
Kansas was making 33% of their attempts.

School B played the closest game from the score standpointe Their loss can
be credited to a poorer shooting percentage than Kansas and possibly tho direct
cause of the loss was Kansas' ability to recover the rebounds, the control of which
gave them edditional chances to score and prevonted Team B from scoring during the
added tim& that the hae team controlled the ball.

School C excelled only in the number of free throws while Kansas had a 63%
average in free throwing as canpared to a 51% averages

Like the total table, this summary table shows that the fundamentals of
the game - shooting, ball handling and rebound recovery = are necessary to offon»
sive power and for winning gamese

Individual Player Rating

 

During the season a running tabulation was kept on each player who played
in the home contests, showing the individual's performance in cach gamo and his
total ondeavors for the season, (Sample record, Exhibit B.)

Since the close of the season other items have been devised, such as ball
handling error, playing efficiency, and scoring ability. These points do not
appear on the original tabulation shocts.

 

 

In rating an individual basketball player’s offensive ability, many points
should be taken into consideration, and the mcthod as a whole needs some modifica.
tion, depending upon the position played and the style of baskotball used. Natur-
ally, the guards will recover more rebounds from the opponents? backboard than
the forwardse It also follows that the forwards should recover more rebounds off
their own backboard, and certainly the center or "quarterback" man will handle the
ball more often than other offensive players. These general trends are apparent
&S soon as one begins a n intensive study of the data gathered.

The players have been listed (see Table V, Evaluation Point Totals) by the
number of minutes played during the home gamese By a brief study of this table
one can see that there is a high relationship between minutes played and the total
number of cvaluation pointse The next column should have more mcaning in that
points are considered in relationship to the total number of minutes played, The
colwan on playing cfficiency was arrived at by the formula givon in the definition
of terms (noe 6)e This rating is probably the most meaningful in the table, but
it does not tell the complete storye

Ball handling is the basis for offensive ability, ond for this roason a
ball handling table has been tabulated (see Table VI).