Quote Originally Posted by TheSultan View Post
Gato said "I will take the team with guts over the team with a better eFG% every day of the week. Metrics only go so far." But then he provided four examples where the metrics described perfectly why Marquette won.

I'm not pondering and fantasizing about it. I am describing objectively what happened. Can you say that Marquette objectively won those game because they subjectively played harder? With more "guts?" Sure. I never said otherwise.

However I have seen plenty of teams that play hard and lose because they can't shoot the ball or do other things well. (Wojo's first year is an example of that IMO.)
Thanks for quoting me out of context. I think I had a qualifier in the preceding clause about the teams being equal. It is like looking at eFG% being predictive of MU's win over UNCC in '77 without acknowledging that Butch's length of the court pass was determinative of the outcome. Some things cannot be measured.