With the games coming thick and fast, there are almost too many storylines to keep track of. Certainly too many to limit me to one quick lookaround per week. Here are a few more trends and topics of note from the last few days of play.
Shooting in silence
Heading into the bubble, there were questions about how players would adjust to the unusual shooting backgrounds. Given the different depth of field behind each basket as well as the much lower ambient noise and lack of waving thunder sticks (thank goodness), there were questions about the effects. One position was that the lack of depth behind the backboard would help shooting, by avoiding the “Stadium Effect” — itself the subject of some discussion, with some evidence indicating teams shoot slightly worse in larger football stadiums at least in the college game, though the issue is far from settled either way. In any event, the relatively small area behind the backboards in the three bubble gyms…
