Luke Winn of SI.com looks at the most balanced offensive attacks of national championship teams in the last 16 years and 2 Kentucky teams are one and two.
[QUOTE][h=3]2. Kentucky 1997-98[/h][LEFT][COLOR=#000000][FONT=verdana]Top Six in Rotation (Poss%): Wayne Turner (19.2), Scott Padgett (20.1), Jeff Sheppard (21.7), Allen Edwards (19.4), Nazr Mohammed (24.1), Heshimu Evans (20.5)[/FONT][/COLOR]
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Tubby Smith’s first Wildcats team was a classic, no-star crew, lacking a Lottery Pick or a first-team All-America rep. The only champs since to fit the same, unsung profile are 2009-10 Duke, whose best player, Jon Scheyer, was a second-team All-American and a second-round pick in the NBA draft.[/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT]
[h=3]1. Kentucky 2011-12[/h][LEFT][COLOR=#000000][FONT=verdana]Top Six in Rotation (Poss%): Marquis Teague (21.1), Anthony Davis (19.2), Doron Lamb (18.2), Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (21.4), Terrence Jones (22.3), Darius Miller (18.7)[/FONT][/COLOR]
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So there you have it: Kentucky ’12 is the most balanced title team of the past 16 years — and potentially much longer than that, if the data were available to prove it. To have top-two draft picks using just 19.2 and 21.4 percent of possessions is not in any way normal.
This is what’s more typical: The No. 1 pick in 2011, Kyrie Irving, used 27.2 percent of Duke’s possessions, and the No. 2 pick Derrick Williams, used 28.7 percent of Arizona’s. The No. 1 pick in 2010, Kentucky’s John Wall, had a usage rage of 27.3, and the No. 2 pick, Ohio State’s Evan Turner, used 34.3.[/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT]
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