FAB with a great stat line
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moqui
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Fab's development is the single most important factor in determining how far Syracuse will go this season, and this game was a huge step for him.
First of all, 39 minutes is a career high for him and a tremendous increase over his previous high (32 vs. Stanford), especially given that he got in early foul trouble but it never got serious from that point on, even though he remained aggressive. Great sign. There are going to be more games like this in the weeks ahead, and the team will need Fab on the court more and more.
I thought I noticed before the suspension that JB was trying to run more and more plays for Fab to develop his offense for the stretch run. I want him to become a reliable double digit scorer down low. I think this started at the Providence game. It is hard to tell just from the box score because that game was a blow out and he played limited minutes, but it looked to me like going to Fab early was part of the game plan.
Anyway, his last 4 games are now:
FGM/FGA PTS REB BL MIN
5/8 11 7 6 39
5/6 14 3 2 21
4/8 10 10 6 29
2/4 4 5 4 19
Totals
16/26 39 25 18
that's just about 10 pts per game on .615 shooting; about 6 boards per contest and 4 .5 blocks per game.
that's about what Arinze gave the 2010 team (with the exception of the blocks)
the difference is that Arinze was a finished project and Fab is on an upward trajectory
First of all, 39 minutes is a career high for him and a tremendous increase over his previous high (32 vs. Stanford), especially given that he got in early foul trouble but it never got serious from that point on, even though he remained aggressive. Great sign. There are going to be more games like this in the weeks ahead, and the team will need Fab on the court more and more.
I thought I noticed before the suspension that JB was trying to run more and more plays for Fab to develop his offense for the stretch run. I want him to become a reliable double digit scorer down low. I think this started at the Providence game. It is hard to tell just from the box score because that game was a blow out and he played limited minutes, but it looked to me like going to Fab early was part of the game plan.
Anyway, his last 4 games are now:
FGM/FGA PTS REB BL MIN
5/8 11 7 6 39
5/6 14 3 2 21
4/8 10 10 6 29
2/4 4 5 4 19
Totals
16/26 39 25 18
that's just about 10 pts per game on .615 shooting; about 6 boards per contest and 4 .5 blocks per game.
that's about what Arinze gave the 2010 team (with the exception of the blocks)
the difference is that Arinze was a finished project and Fab is on an upward trajectory
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He still got half as many touches as he should have. Guys were throwing up awful forces and just not looking to get it inside.
The high-low with Fair seemed to be available most of the night. I'll watch the game again tomorrow, but it looked like we were handcuffing ourselves by not going with our best option in the half-court.
The high-low with Fair seemed to be available most of the night. I'll watch the game again tomorrow, but it looked like we were handcuffing ourselves by not going with our best option in the half-court.
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Plus Fab is not a total disaster at the line (60% this season vs AO's career mark of 40%) - feel confident with him in at the end of games.
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Nice breakdown Moqui. Fab is critical for sure but I would love to see our forwards getting more boards - we don't seem to play team rebounding very well with out guards usually sneaking out for the transition. I think JB said in his presser that there will be no transition game if we can't rebound. The turn-overs were low in this game so the lack of rebounding really stood out as we just had no transition game at all.
