While the most popular consensus is that great defense facilitates efficient offense, Kansas State head coach Frank Martin made a case for the reverse of that analysis. When asked how the Wildcats became a better defensive team this season, one reason he cited was offensive growth – taking better shots, committing fewer turnovers.
“See, when you take a bad shot, that usually leads to a bad situation defensively,” Martin said. “Because that means you got bad, for me, bad shots are shots where you have bad floor spacing because then you can’t offensive rebound. Then that allows people to get clean defensive rebounds and they’re gone … You never want to get put in transition defense where they got numbers. Because when you are playing at this level, people will finish plays on you.”
That will be especially true tonight, as the Wildcats face the Badgers, who are infamous for maximizing every possession by draining the shot clock on each one.
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