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School A played the hane team fairly even on most of the comparisons cx-
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 standpoint. Their loss can
be credited to a poorer shooting percentage than Kansas and possibly the direct
cause of the loss was Kansas‘ ability to recover the rebounds, the control of which
gave them additional chances to score and prevented Team B from scoring during the
added timé that the home team controlled the ball.

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

Like the total table, this summary table shows that the fundamentals of
the gome - shooting, ball handling and rebound recovery = are necessary to offone
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 coach game and his
total ondeavors for the season. (Sample record, Exhibit B.)

Since ~ Sen of the season other items have been devised, such as ball
handling error, efficiency, and scoring abilitye These points do not
appear on the : Pe bulation sheets.

 

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

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

Ball handling is the basis for offensive ability, and for this roason a
ball handling table has been tabulated (sec Table VI). 7