If you’ve watched even just a few minutes of Kentucky basketball this season, you don’t need analytics to know this team is fun. You don’t need fancy shot charts to know this team is full of good shooters who can light up the gym. And you don’t need advanced statistical comparisons to last year’s squad to appreciate the tremendous uptick in production these incoming players have provided.
But sometimes, all these things are nice to have anyway.
While we know Kentucky is first in the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio, third in points per game, and fourth in effective field goal percentage, let’s look at what makes all those numbers work in unison: shot selection.