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Take all the positives: points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks and subtract the negatives: missed field goals, miss free throws, turnovers and fouls. The result is “Net Points.” (NP). M = minutes.
(I’ve just double-checked these numbers against the raw data on the SU athletic website so there may be some minor adjustments beyond adding in the Marquette game.)
Michael Carter-Williams +14NP in 38M season: +440NP in 1002M per 40M: +17.6NP
James Southerland +12NP in 33M season: +298NP in 630M per 40M: +18.9NP
CJ Fair +8NP in 38M season: +438NP in 989M per 40M: +17.7NP
Baye Moussa Keita +2NP in 14M season: +129NP in 439M per 40M: +11.8NP
Jerami Grant +1NP in 9M season: +118NP in 468M per 40M: +10.1NP
Trevor Cooney 0NP in 4M season: +57NP in 341M per 40M: +6.7NP
Rakeem Christmas 0NP in 23M season: +217NP in 644M per 40M: +13.5NP
Brandon Triche -1NP in 38M season: +296NP in 968M per 40M: +12.2NP
DaJuan Coleman -3NP in 3M season: +79NP in 282M per 40M: +11.2NP
Comment: MCW had the lowest team leading NP total since he and Trevor Cooney, of all people, led with 12 each in the Alcorn State game. Actually, our recent performances have very much resembled that game. But we weren’t playing Alcorn State.
CJ Fair has led in “net points” 11 times, Michael Carter-Williams 8 times, Brandon Triche 6 times, James Southerland 3 times, Jerami Grant and Trevor Cooney once, (including ties).
Shooting Breakdown:
SU was 15/43, (.349) from inside the arc, 5/13 from outside, (.385) and 8/12 from the line (.667). Louisville was 10/27 (.370) from inside the arc, 8/23, (.348) from outside, and 14/24, (.583) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 54 points and they score 61 points. If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 11-19, not 22-7.
For the season we are .499/.324/.683 and our opponents are .426/.289/.689. 14 of our 20 baskets were assisted, (70%), vs. 14 of Louisville‘s 18, (78%).
Thanks to Blacksquirrels and Knicks411, I now understand how to compute “points per possession, (field goal attempts – offensive rebounds + turnovers plus 47.5% of free throws attempted) and here they are:
Syracuse: 56 FGA minus 13 offensive rebounds plus 16 turnovers plus 47.5% of 12 free throws = 64.7 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 65 possessions in which we scored 53 points or 0.815 points per possession. We are 1.087 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Louisville: 50-10+14 plus 47.5% of 24 = 65.4 possessions. Let’s call that 65 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 58 points or 0.892 points per possession. The opposition is 0.884 on the season. Last season it was 0.830.
POP: I’ll credit the Axeman for naming this. A common stat is “points in the paint”. But what about the points outside the paint? The game gets a lot harder if you have to plow through the defense to get to the basket to score. Jump shots, (and not just three pointers), are an important part of any team’s offense. You can’t rely on them too much as they are the most inconsistent part of the game but you have to have the capacity to score over the defense or else you are likely to struggle. The formula is simple: Total points minus points in the paint minus free throws.
We scored 58 points, 18 in the paint and 8 from the foul line. Thus we had 27 POP, or 51% of our points. Louisville had 30 POP, or 52%. We averaged 28 POP last year, 33% of our points. So far this year we are averaging 24 POP, 33% of our scoring. We’ve averaged 26 POP at home and 22 on the road. Our opponents have averaged 24 POP, but that’s been 40% of their scoring.
The “Offensive Dude of the Game”, (points + assists) was CJ Fair with 19 points and 0 assist for a total of 21. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (12), CJ Fair (9) Brandon Triche (6) and James Southerland (4).
I decided it should be a goal to score at least 15 points in every 10 minute “quarter” of the game, (college is the only level that doesn’t have quarters). You want to score more than that, of course, but if we can avoid falling under 15 in any ten minute period we should have a good scoring average because we’ll have 20 and 25 point quarters as well. The “quarterly” splits in this game were 11-13, 8-10, 16-12, 18-23.
For the year, the average score per quarter is 17-14, 18-12, 19-15, 20-18. Last year the averages per quarter were: 19-13, 19-12, 21-14, 22-16. We’ve missed the 15 point mark 29 times in 116 quarters this year, and lost 31.
For fun I’ve decided to add another stat. We picked up the tradition of standing and clapping before SU’s first basket of each half from New Mexico after one of Coach Boeheim’s favorite early victories back in the 70’s. I wondered which player had done the best job of “sitting us down”: who scored the first field goal of each half? I decided to include road games.
Michael Carter-Williams sat us down in the first half, Brandon Triche in the second half. CJ Fair has “sat us down” 14 times, Rakeem Christmas and Michael Carter-Williams 11 times, Brandon Triche 9 times, DaJuan Coleman 6 times, James Southerland 3 times, Jerami Grant 2 times and Baye Moussa Keita, and Trevor Cooney 1 time each.
Possession:
Syracuse had 13 offensive and 28 defensive rebounds Louisville had 10 offensive and 26 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 33% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 26% of the time. For the year we have rebounded 40% of our misses and the opposition have rebounded 34% of theirs. We’ve out-rebounded 18 of 29 opponents by this measure.
Louisville had 14 turnovers, of which 6 were Syracuse steals, (43%). Syracuse had 16 turnovers of which 9 were Louisville steals, (56%). We had 55 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Louisville had 52. We have won this battle 19 times in 29 games, with two games even. We’ve averaged 8 more MP’s per game, +5 in big East games. Gaining possession has not been a big issue, overall.
The Centers
I think our tandem of centers should get a total of at least 20 points + rebounds + blocks per game. They are averaging 30 on the season but only 18 in Big East games. In the Louisville game Rakeem Christmas had 2 points, 3 rebounds and 1 blocks while Baye Moussa Keita had 0 points,38 rebounds and 1 block, for a total of 21. DuJuan Coleman played but had nothing but zeros. Christmas has contributed the most 18 times, Keita 8 times and the injured DaJuan Coleman 5 times, (includes ties).
“My Man”
Casey Stengel was once asked the secret of his success with the Yankees. He said “I never play a game without my man.” He didn’t explain but the reporter noticed that Yogi Berra was always in the line up somewhere, even when he wasn’t catching. Casey didn’t want to play a game without him. I decided to keep track of which players played the most minutes in each game to see which player, (or players) were Jim Boeheim’s “man”.
CJ Fair, Michael Carter-Williams and Brandon Triche all played 38 minutes played in this game. Michael Carter-Williams has led in minutes played 13 times, CJ Fair 11 times, Brandon Triche 10 times and Jerami Grant twice, (this includes ties).
(I’ve just double-checked these numbers against the raw data on the SU athletic website so there may be some minor adjustments beyond adding in the Marquette game.)
Michael Carter-Williams +14NP in 38M season: +440NP in 1002M per 40M: +17.6NP
James Southerland +12NP in 33M season: +298NP in 630M per 40M: +18.9NP
CJ Fair +8NP in 38M season: +438NP in 989M per 40M: +17.7NP
Baye Moussa Keita +2NP in 14M season: +129NP in 439M per 40M: +11.8NP
Jerami Grant +1NP in 9M season: +118NP in 468M per 40M: +10.1NP
Trevor Cooney 0NP in 4M season: +57NP in 341M per 40M: +6.7NP
Rakeem Christmas 0NP in 23M season: +217NP in 644M per 40M: +13.5NP
Brandon Triche -1NP in 38M season: +296NP in 968M per 40M: +12.2NP
DaJuan Coleman -3NP in 3M season: +79NP in 282M per 40M: +11.2NP
Comment: MCW had the lowest team leading NP total since he and Trevor Cooney, of all people, led with 12 each in the Alcorn State game. Actually, our recent performances have very much resembled that game. But we weren’t playing Alcorn State.
CJ Fair has led in “net points” 11 times, Michael Carter-Williams 8 times, Brandon Triche 6 times, James Southerland 3 times, Jerami Grant and Trevor Cooney once, (including ties).
Shooting Breakdown:
SU was 15/43, (.349) from inside the arc, 5/13 from outside, (.385) and 8/12 from the line (.667). Louisville was 10/27 (.370) from inside the arc, 8/23, (.348) from outside, and 14/24, (.583) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 54 points and they score 61 points. If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 11-19, not 22-7.
For the season we are .499/.324/.683 and our opponents are .426/.289/.689. 14 of our 20 baskets were assisted, (70%), vs. 14 of Louisville‘s 18, (78%).
Thanks to Blacksquirrels and Knicks411, I now understand how to compute “points per possession, (field goal attempts – offensive rebounds + turnovers plus 47.5% of free throws attempted) and here they are:
Syracuse: 56 FGA minus 13 offensive rebounds plus 16 turnovers plus 47.5% of 12 free throws = 64.7 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 65 possessions in which we scored 53 points or 0.815 points per possession. We are 1.087 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Louisville: 50-10+14 plus 47.5% of 24 = 65.4 possessions. Let’s call that 65 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 58 points or 0.892 points per possession. The opposition is 0.884 on the season. Last season it was 0.830.
POP: I’ll credit the Axeman for naming this. A common stat is “points in the paint”. But what about the points outside the paint? The game gets a lot harder if you have to plow through the defense to get to the basket to score. Jump shots, (and not just three pointers), are an important part of any team’s offense. You can’t rely on them too much as they are the most inconsistent part of the game but you have to have the capacity to score over the defense or else you are likely to struggle. The formula is simple: Total points minus points in the paint minus free throws.
We scored 58 points, 18 in the paint and 8 from the foul line. Thus we had 27 POP, or 51% of our points. Louisville had 30 POP, or 52%. We averaged 28 POP last year, 33% of our points. So far this year we are averaging 24 POP, 33% of our scoring. We’ve averaged 26 POP at home and 22 on the road. Our opponents have averaged 24 POP, but that’s been 40% of their scoring.
The “Offensive Dude of the Game”, (points + assists) was CJ Fair with 19 points and 0 assist for a total of 21. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (12), CJ Fair (9) Brandon Triche (6) and James Southerland (4).
I decided it should be a goal to score at least 15 points in every 10 minute “quarter” of the game, (college is the only level that doesn’t have quarters). You want to score more than that, of course, but if we can avoid falling under 15 in any ten minute period we should have a good scoring average because we’ll have 20 and 25 point quarters as well. The “quarterly” splits in this game were 11-13, 8-10, 16-12, 18-23.
For the year, the average score per quarter is 17-14, 18-12, 19-15, 20-18. Last year the averages per quarter were: 19-13, 19-12, 21-14, 22-16. We’ve missed the 15 point mark 29 times in 116 quarters this year, and lost 31.
For fun I’ve decided to add another stat. We picked up the tradition of standing and clapping before SU’s first basket of each half from New Mexico after one of Coach Boeheim’s favorite early victories back in the 70’s. I wondered which player had done the best job of “sitting us down”: who scored the first field goal of each half? I decided to include road games.
Michael Carter-Williams sat us down in the first half, Brandon Triche in the second half. CJ Fair has “sat us down” 14 times, Rakeem Christmas and Michael Carter-Williams 11 times, Brandon Triche 9 times, DaJuan Coleman 6 times, James Southerland 3 times, Jerami Grant 2 times and Baye Moussa Keita, and Trevor Cooney 1 time each.
Possession:
Syracuse had 13 offensive and 28 defensive rebounds Louisville had 10 offensive and 26 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 33% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 26% of the time. For the year we have rebounded 40% of our misses and the opposition have rebounded 34% of theirs. We’ve out-rebounded 18 of 29 opponents by this measure.
Louisville had 14 turnovers, of which 6 were Syracuse steals, (43%). Syracuse had 16 turnovers of which 9 were Louisville steals, (56%). We had 55 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Louisville had 52. We have won this battle 19 times in 29 games, with two games even. We’ve averaged 8 more MP’s per game, +5 in big East games. Gaining possession has not been a big issue, overall.
The Centers
I think our tandem of centers should get a total of at least 20 points + rebounds + blocks per game. They are averaging 30 on the season but only 18 in Big East games. In the Louisville game Rakeem Christmas had 2 points, 3 rebounds and 1 blocks while Baye Moussa Keita had 0 points,38 rebounds and 1 block, for a total of 21. DuJuan Coleman played but had nothing but zeros. Christmas has contributed the most 18 times, Keita 8 times and the injured DaJuan Coleman 5 times, (includes ties).
“My Man”
Casey Stengel was once asked the secret of his success with the Yankees. He said “I never play a game without my man.” He didn’t explain but the reporter noticed that Yogi Berra was always in the line up somewhere, even when he wasn’t catching. Casey didn’t want to play a game without him. I decided to keep track of which players played the most minutes in each game to see which player, (or players) were Jim Boeheim’s “man”.
CJ Fair, Michael Carter-Williams and Brandon Triche all played 38 minutes played in this game. Michael Carter-Williams has led in minutes played 13 times, CJ Fair 11 times, Brandon Triche 10 times and Jerami Grant twice, (this includes ties).
