The 22-23 season like before begun with a bang pretty much. While I do keep track of my favorite teams the league in general has really been fun to see with some change happening overall.
As a former International Scout, I wanted to especially chime in on what I see in terms of teams that have been struggling with their performance overall.
What you will find in this article are my opinions about three key teams.
Zalgiris Kaunas, Anadolu Efes and Olimpia Milano and why they have been struggling in my opinion garnished with statistical insight I have gathered using my own means. Insight from 3stepsbasket.
In terms of key reasons I will focus on the coaching strategies that have led the teams from the first round to round twenty so far and to additionally point to the fact of how the teams have not been able to execute certain plays that have made them suffer with consequential situation of where they are now in the standings.
All in all I heavily think that out of all the teams its unfortunately the case that Olimpia Milano is suffering the most.
Anadolu Efes – The balanced one out of all three teams
To start out with I wanted to first of all look at the most optimally balanced team. Let me be clear that I still think that Anadolu Efes performance-wise should be in a better situation than where they are after round 20 has been played out and they definitely are putting in a ton of effort in.
A key I feel to their dynamic and in part of why they are underperforming is going to be stating the obvious that their leading player Shane Larkin so far has only played in four games.
To focus a bit more on their plays and on their on court situation please take a look at the following video:
How the stats translate for all teams:
https://www.canva.com/design/DAFYwBcdYEg/view
As we can deduce from the graphic above, Zalgiris Kaunas that I am paying attention to ends up being one of the teams that has its downfall. Their lack of being able to produce on the offensive end becomes very evident eventhough they manage to get close to the rim. I will explain things further below on why they suffer so much in comparison to the rest of the league and they are bad in not one but two zones as we see in the graph.
Funny that while Olimpia Milano while on the bottom part of the league in most areas I would have expected them to turn up in the this graph are not to be seen. To a point they don’t show up on the radar yet but…
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