NOT my explanation!
http://blog.minitab.com/blog/adventures-in-statistics-2/regression-analysis-how-do-i-interpret-r-squared-and-assess-the-goodness-of-fit
Might help, might not. 
It's been multi decades since Stats 101. : )
Best to all,
Brian

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