Who is to Blame for Turnovers?

[BballTim]

Regardless, I tried (and failed) to determine how much of a drop in shooting percentage the C's would tolerate (assuming that less passing/fewer assists would result in a worse FG%) to cut down on passing and therefore cut down on turnovers, therefore increasing possessions.

  It's got to be a pretty small number, right? Cutting back by 2 turnovers a game would put us well above average.

That's the thing though, if we grabbed two more defensive rebounds we'd have been average too.

Two turnovers and two rebounds a game don't sound like a lot till you try and get them or prevent them.

  There are tradeoffs involved. We were slightly above average on defensive rebounds, but a poor offensive rebounding team. On the flip side, and I don't know where this stat comes from, but I heard more than once while watching the Celts on tv that we had the best transition defense in the league. If we hit the offensive glass with more bodies we might get more rebounds (but probably only, as you say, 1-2 more a game) but we'll have fewer people back on defense on a decent number of plays. Is it worth it to get a few more possessions and improve your offensive efficiency at the expense of your defensive efficiency?

[Bankshot]

Let's see how many turnovers they get tonight.

[Celtics4ever]

I thought we showed our nervousness a little in the first quarter of the MIA game then we settled down.

[Bankshot]

So what is the excuse for tonight?

[Fafnir]

So what is the excuse for tonight?

Well KG wasn't the prime culprit this time. Total team effort lol.

[barefacedmonk]

So what is the excuse for tonight?

Excuses shouldn't matter since you are looking to assign blame on somebody.

As for tonight....they played poorly. Its going to happen every now and then during the season....more so when we are playing back to back. No biggie....yea, also, LA is going to lose both its regular season games against us...write it and date it

[scaryjerry]

I think a majority of the turnovers come when too much offense is being iniated by someone other than rondo, who also can be prone to turnovers himself at time, but when Pierce starts bringing the ball up the floor instead of giving it to rondo, normally leads to a turnover