Interesting stat regarding defense

diat150 said

over those 7 games the defense is avg 21 ppg, thats certainly good enough to win. then you look at what the offense has done in those 3 losses, 20 points, 7 points, 16 points. Not to mention the offense has handed the opposition points early in at least 2 of those losses.

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Ya think the average of over 2 extra possessions per game helped the offense PPG a bit? In 2009, the offense averaged 20.25 ppg when forcing less than 2 turnovers. Even remove the meaningless week 17 game and it's still about 24.5 ppg. In 2011 we lost 3 regular season games. We didn't create a turnover in 2 of them. In the other 2 games that we managed to win in 2011 despite not creating a turnover we scored 27 (Tampa) and 22 (Tennessee).

I'm not absolving the offense of blame, but turnovers create points and wins.