Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State coach Scott Nagy doesn’t want to paint too rosy a picture about the culture in his program.
He knows the first stat line his players search for after a game is their own, wanting to see their point totals most of all. But as corny as it may sound, he also believes he’s probably never coached a team with as much camaraderie as his current bunch.
“Coaches can try to oversell that (closeness) about their teams. I don’t care what team you’re coaching, you’re going to battle selfishness,” he said.
“If you know YOURSELF, then you understand you’re going to battle that even in yourself as much as you are your players. But I really do think our guys are fighting that, and they’re trying to maintain a team focus.”
One area where that togetherness is being displayed is in the Raiders’ hefty assist totals. They’re racking up 16.2 per game, which is on pace for their highest average since the 1992-93 team dished out 18.3 per game.
Part of the impressive clip this year is the result of the team leading the nation in field-goal shooting — a pass isn’t an assist unless it leads to a basket, of course — but assists also aren’t handed out on possessions where players monopolize the ball before shooting.
