{"id":906,"date":"2004-10-05T03:14:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-05T09:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/deconstructing-talking-head-myth-43\/"},"modified":"2004-10-05T03:14:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-05T09:14:00","slug":"deconstructing-talking-head-myth-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/deconstructing-talking-head-myth-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Deconstructing Talking Head Myth #43"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;offense is behind the defense early in the season&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is not usually true. It may be true for some teams, but not for college basketball as a whole. Here&#8217;s the season-to-date scoring average for Division 1 by date over the last six seasons&#8230;<\/p>\n<pre><b>       2004   2003   2002   2001   2000   1999<\/b>\n<b>12\/1<\/b>  139.3  140.2  141.4  144.1  140.1  138.6\n<b>1\/1<\/b>   139.6  140.8  141.9  143.6  140.5  139.0\n<b>2\/1<\/b>   139.0  140.0  142.1  142.8  140.3  139.5\n<b>3\/1<\/b>   138.7  140.3  142.0  142.5  140.4  139.8\n<b>End<\/b>   138.5  140.0  142.0  142.3  140.2  139.8<\/pre>\n<p>In four of the last six seasons scoring peaked sometime in late December. Only in the 98-99 season was there a noticeable increase in scoring after January 1st. So offenses may be rusty for the first few weeks of the season, but there&#8217;s a 50\/50 chance that defense will improve more by season&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;offense is behind the defense early in the season&#8221; This is not usually true. It may be true for some teams, but not for college basketball as a whole. Here&#8217;s the season-to-date scoring average for Division 1 by date over the last six seasons&#8230; 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 12\/1 139.3 140.2 141.4 144.1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}