Before a more comfortable win over Harvard, where we saw the offense start to click even in the absence of Xavier Johnson, anxiety had been building about how disjointed and confused the Hoosiers looked on the court at times.
The most obvious explanation is that this is a new team with a lot of new pieces, but considering how many of those pieces were considered elite recruits, I wondered how much of an excuse this could be.
A useful metric for understanding a team’s experience, especially with each other, is KenPom’s minutes continuity metric, which tracks “what percentage of a team’s minutes are played by the same player from last season to this season,” per the website.