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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.
CJ Fair +16NP in 37M season: +567NP in 1394M per 40M: +16.3NP
Jerami Grant +12NP in 17M season: +150NP in 563M per 40M: +10.7NP
Rakeem Christmas +9NP in 23M season: +253NP in 850M per 40M: +11.9NP
Brandon Triche +9NP in 39M season: +382NP in 1352M per 40M: +11.3NP
Baye Moussa Keita +7NP in 17M season:+194NP in 672M per 40M: +11.5NP
Trevor Cooney 0NP in 5M season: +63NP in 436M per 40M: +5.8NP
DaJuan Coleman 0NP in 0M season: +95NP in 305M per 40M: +12.5NP
James Southerland -3NP in 27M season: +414NP in 993M per 40M: +16.7NP
Michael Carter-Williams -4NP in 35M season: +567NP in 1409M per 40M: +16.1NP
Comment: It’s a sad thing that James Southerland’s last game in an Orange uniform was a -3 game and that Michael Carter-Williams likely last game was a -4 four game. Brandon Triche went out better at +9, (and with the right call at the end, he’s better than that and maybe still playing). CJ Fair remained Mr. solid at +16, (and he wound up tied with MCW for the season’s lead in total “net points”). Was it his last game?
CJ Fair led in “net points” in 13 times, Michael Carter-Williams 12 times, James Southerland 9 times, Brandon Triche 8 times, Jerami Grant, Trevor Cooney and Baye Moussa Keita once each, (including ties).
Shooting Breakdown:
SU was 20/41, (.488) from inside the arc, 3/14 from outside, (.214) and 7/11 from the line (.636). Michigan was 13/29 (.448) from inside the arc, 8/24, (.333) from outside and 11/20, (.550) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 57 points and they score 56 points. If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 16-24, not 30-10. That doesn’t mean that we’ve been lucky that they missed shots. The way we play defense obviously has lot to do with it. But it means that shooting has been a big factor. It’s not all about possession of the ball, which many think of as the real key to winning basketball.
For the season we are .486/.334/.675 and our opponents are .426/.286/.673. People were concerned about our free throw shooting at times this year but, in the end, we slightly out-shot the opposition. (Last year’s team was .520 from two point range. The 2010 team was .571.) 13 of our 23 baskets were assisted, (57%), vs.17 of Michigan‘s 21, (81%).
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: 55 FGA minus 10 offensive rebounds plus 10 turnovers plus 47.5% of 11 free throws = 60.225 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 60 possessions in which we scored 56 points or 0.933 points per possession. We are 1.069 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Michigan: 53-13+10 plus 47.5% of 20 = 59.5 possessions. Let’s call that 60 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 61 points or 1.017 points per possession. The opposition is 0.892 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 56 points, 30 in the paint and 7 from the foul line. Thus we had 19 POP or 34% of our points. Michigan had 30POP, or 49%. We averaged 28 POP last year, 33% of our points. So far this year we are averaging 23 POP, 33% of our scoring. We’ve averaged 26 POP at the Dome and 22 away from it. Our opponents have averaged 23 POP, but that’s been 40% of their scoring.
The “Offensive Dude of the Game”, (points + assists) was CJ Fair, with 22 points and 1 assists for a total of 23. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (15), CJ Fair (12) Brandon Triche (9) and James Southerland (6).
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 17-15, 8-21, 16-9, 15-16
For the year, the average score per quarter is 16-13, 18-12, 18-14.5, 19-18. Last year the averages per quarter were: 15-14, 19-12, 18-17, 21-18. We’ve missed the 15 point mark 46 times in 160 quarters this year, and lost 46.
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.
James Southerland sat us down in the first half, Brandon Triche in the second half, (at 14:24: we would have been standing for over 5 minutes- I’ve heard the record is 7+). CJ Fair has “sat us down” 20 times, Brandon Triche 15 times, Rakeem Christmas 14 times, Michael Carter-Williams 13 times, DaJuan Coleman 6 times, James Southerland 5 times, Jerami Grant 2 times and Baye Moussa Keita, and Trevor Cooney 1 time each.
Possession:
Syracuse had 10 offensive and 23 defensive rebounds Michigan had 13 offensive and 24 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 29% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 36% of the time. For the year we have rebounded 39% of our misses and the opposition have rebounded 34% of theirs. We’ve out-rebounded 23 of 40 opponents by this measure.
Michigan had 10 turnovers, of which 7 were Syracuse steals, (70%). Syracuse had 10 turnovers of which 5 were Michigan steals, (50%). We had 43 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Michigan alsohad 47. We have won this battle 24 times in 40 games, with 3 games even. Gaining and retaining 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 26 on the season but only 18 in Big East games. In the Michigan game Rakeem Christmas had 5 points, 5 rebounds and 1 blocks while Baye Moussa Keita had 4 points, 2 rebounds and 1 blocks, DaJuan Coleman had 0 points, 0 rebounds and 0 blocks for a total of 18, We’ve failed to reach 20 15 times, 13 in the 23 conference games. Christmas has contributed the most 22 times, Keita 14 times and Coleman 6 with 2 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”.
Brandon Triche played 39 minutes in this game. Michael Carter-Williams has led in minutes played 19 times, CJ Fair 16 times, Brandon Triche 14 times Jerami Grant twice and James Southerland , (this includes ties).
CJ Fair +16NP in 37M season: +567NP in 1394M per 40M: +16.3NP
Jerami Grant +12NP in 17M season: +150NP in 563M per 40M: +10.7NP
Rakeem Christmas +9NP in 23M season: +253NP in 850M per 40M: +11.9NP
Brandon Triche +9NP in 39M season: +382NP in 1352M per 40M: +11.3NP
Baye Moussa Keita +7NP in 17M season:+194NP in 672M per 40M: +11.5NP
Trevor Cooney 0NP in 5M season: +63NP in 436M per 40M: +5.8NP
DaJuan Coleman 0NP in 0M season: +95NP in 305M per 40M: +12.5NP
James Southerland -3NP in 27M season: +414NP in 993M per 40M: +16.7NP
Michael Carter-Williams -4NP in 35M season: +567NP in 1409M per 40M: +16.1NP
Comment: It’s a sad thing that James Southerland’s last game in an Orange uniform was a -3 game and that Michael Carter-Williams likely last game was a -4 four game. Brandon Triche went out better at +9, (and with the right call at the end, he’s better than that and maybe still playing). CJ Fair remained Mr. solid at +16, (and he wound up tied with MCW for the season’s lead in total “net points”). Was it his last game?
CJ Fair led in “net points” in 13 times, Michael Carter-Williams 12 times, James Southerland 9 times, Brandon Triche 8 times, Jerami Grant, Trevor Cooney and Baye Moussa Keita once each, (including ties).
Shooting Breakdown:
SU was 20/41, (.488) from inside the arc, 3/14 from outside, (.214) and 7/11 from the line (.636). Michigan was 13/29 (.448) from inside the arc, 8/24, (.333) from outside and 11/20, (.550) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 57 points and they score 56 points. If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 16-24, not 30-10. That doesn’t mean that we’ve been lucky that they missed shots. The way we play defense obviously has lot to do with it. But it means that shooting has been a big factor. It’s not all about possession of the ball, which many think of as the real key to winning basketball.
For the season we are .486/.334/.675 and our opponents are .426/.286/.673. People were concerned about our free throw shooting at times this year but, in the end, we slightly out-shot the opposition. (Last year’s team was .520 from two point range. The 2010 team was .571.) 13 of our 23 baskets were assisted, (57%), vs.17 of Michigan‘s 21, (81%).
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: 55 FGA minus 10 offensive rebounds plus 10 turnovers plus 47.5% of 11 free throws = 60.225 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 60 possessions in which we scored 56 points or 0.933 points per possession. We are 1.069 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Michigan: 53-13+10 plus 47.5% of 20 = 59.5 possessions. Let’s call that 60 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 61 points or 1.017 points per possession. The opposition is 0.892 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 56 points, 30 in the paint and 7 from the foul line. Thus we had 19 POP or 34% of our points. Michigan had 30POP, or 49%. We averaged 28 POP last year, 33% of our points. So far this year we are averaging 23 POP, 33% of our scoring. We’ve averaged 26 POP at the Dome and 22 away from it. Our opponents have averaged 23 POP, but that’s been 40% of their scoring.
The “Offensive Dude of the Game”, (points + assists) was CJ Fair, with 22 points and 1 assists for a total of 23. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (15), CJ Fair (12) Brandon Triche (9) and James Southerland (6).
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 17-15, 8-21, 16-9, 15-16
For the year, the average score per quarter is 16-13, 18-12, 18-14.5, 19-18. Last year the averages per quarter were: 15-14, 19-12, 18-17, 21-18. We’ve missed the 15 point mark 46 times in 160 quarters this year, and lost 46.
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.
James Southerland sat us down in the first half, Brandon Triche in the second half, (at 14:24: we would have been standing for over 5 minutes- I’ve heard the record is 7+). CJ Fair has “sat us down” 20 times, Brandon Triche 15 times, Rakeem Christmas 14 times, Michael Carter-Williams 13 times, DaJuan Coleman 6 times, James Southerland 5 times, Jerami Grant 2 times and Baye Moussa Keita, and Trevor Cooney 1 time each.
Possession:
Syracuse had 10 offensive and 23 defensive rebounds Michigan had 13 offensive and 24 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 29% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 36% of the time. For the year we have rebounded 39% of our misses and the opposition have rebounded 34% of theirs. We’ve out-rebounded 23 of 40 opponents by this measure.
Michigan had 10 turnovers, of which 7 were Syracuse steals, (70%). Syracuse had 10 turnovers of which 5 were Michigan steals, (50%). We had 43 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Michigan alsohad 47. We have won this battle 24 times in 40 games, with 3 games even. Gaining and retaining 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 26 on the season but only 18 in Big East games. In the Michigan game Rakeem Christmas had 5 points, 5 rebounds and 1 blocks while Baye Moussa Keita had 4 points, 2 rebounds and 1 blocks, DaJuan Coleman had 0 points, 0 rebounds and 0 blocks for a total of 18, We’ve failed to reach 20 15 times, 13 in the 23 conference games. Christmas has contributed the most 22 times, Keita 14 times and Coleman 6 with 2 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”.
Brandon Triche played 39 minutes in this game. Michael Carter-Williams has led in minutes played 19 times, CJ Fair 16 times, Brandon Triche 14 times Jerami Grant twice and James Southerland , (this includes ties).
