I Know What Did You in Last 5 Top 16

Now in Top 16, every team is trying to upgrade plays for championship. There is none definite favourite team like last years CSKA-they couldn't win championship but they were favourite by far even the beginning of season and even the end of season-.There is alot of candidates for F4 in this season and also there are some serious teams waiting to fall them.

A Famous quote for nearly all sports " Offense wins games, defense wins championship." Some of us can agree or disagree. I think -like some of you- these two terms interact with each other mentally, especially in Europe. I'm not a psychologist but I play basketball too. If you shoot well, you want to defense intensely, also If you force opponnets missed shot, your offense would be much more confident. Right? Then, which is important? defense or offense I don't know. A chicken and egg situation. But, after these thoughts,  I wanted to look back on last 5 years F4 teams performances. How these teams reached their success?  With offense or defense? 

That work I did isn't a hard or advanced work but it will put some light to F4 mission. There are some charts -are constituted by basic stats for this time- on the right and left. I put only last 3 years numbers because of lack of space. But result tables contain last 5 years outcomes.

Teams are aligned from left to right with F4 results of that year.Stats(offense) charts indicate ranks of teams in specified stat according top16 performances (For ex. Oly in 2012 had 5th 2pt percentage and scored 4th most points between 16 teams). Stats(defense) charts have same logic but this time ranks are stated by opponents performances.(For ex. CSKA's kept their opponents lowest 2pt percentage and allowed lowest points  in 2012 top 16.)

Tables are deployed below contains averages of each selected stats and total averages for years and teams. Green backgrounded 2,4 number in STATS(offense) TOP16 chart is average of all last 5 years finalist teams' 2pt% rank. It is green backrounded because 2,4 is the lowest -which mean the best- one between all average components. Same rules are valid for defense chart. The last AVE rows indicate averages of each column for champions, finalists, 3rd teams and 4th teams. If try to sum something up from these two tables, champion team has best defensive averages between F4 teams in top 16. Therefore  we can say that tables show the achievement comes  a little bit more with defense. 

 
             

In addition, how many champion team get into first 5 team in selected stats in 5 years is indicated following two tables. 4 of last 5 champions had one of best teams in turnover, opponents 2pt% and opponents scored points. Hence these tables point out defenses significance. Do not lose ball, defend well 2pt shot attempts, force your opponnets made less points, here you are a champion. It is very simple like you see (!)