I attended the game with a friend of mine as well -- a Kent fan -- who owes me the last few years of me saying how Kent never looked like they had an offensive flow. We both said the same thing about the Cats last night. It was an NBA style offense with a pass into the post and five seconds of the post holding the ball before making a weak move or it was long bombs. Kent, on the other hand, shared the ball and was generally better in every aspect of the game. I kept yelling for Saul to show any kind of emotion. It was embarrassing.

When I think of offensive flow I think of good passing which should translate into assists. With 2 senior guards this shouldn't be a problem. I went back to the beginning of the TOS era and pulled assists for each season and how that ranked in D1. Here's how Assists this year are shaping up compared to the previous 3 regimes.-

10.9/290th ('14-'15)

15.0/43rd ('13-'14)
17.7/1st ('12-'13)

13.2/137th ('11-'12)
15.3/30th ('10-'11)
14.1/86th ('09-'10)
13.6/116th ('08-'09)

14.3/104th ('07-'08)
13.2/189th ('06-'07)
14.2/121st ('05-'06)
11.8/276th ('04-'05)
11.3/287th ('03-'04)
14.2/121st ('02-'03)
14.2/140th ('01-'02)

If you're watching the games and thinking to yourself that you can't remember the last time Ohio was so poor at sharing the ball its for good reason.

Passing and fast pace would be even better - like that D1 1st place rank year 12/13

Yeah I was thinking about how to quantify this better Jeff.

Certainly Assisted Basket % is one way. I think it's a good indicator of ball movement vs. 1-on-1 but it also can show that a team just isn't a very good shooting team. You can't assist shots guys don't make no matter how good the pass (same thing for a really good shooting team with a crappy pass that works anyway).

So I guess I'd like to see a combination of assist% with a pace adjusted assists per 100 possessions.

I'd compile it myself but I don't think I could even piece that together from box scores if it doesn't already exist.

Mind you, I still think in my gut it's all a quantification of what perimeter already said. Our guards aren't great distributors or creators and our offense as a whole is sub-par.

The ball movement also makes for better shooters. IMO we seem to hit the wide open shots we get but we don't get that many. I've said it a lot but it all comes down to our main ball handler having zero court vision and because of this he's one of the most easily defensed players we've had in recent memory. He can have big games when teams get lazy on defense against us but if they are trying we are screwed. He would not play for me but that's more about the defensive end.