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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 +19NP in 40M season: +299NP in 689M per 40M: +17.4NP
Michael Carter-Williams +4NP in 30M season: +311NP in 713M per 40M: +17.4NP
Rakeem Christmas +4NP in 30M season: +194NP in 472M per 40M: +16.4NP
Baye Moussa Keita +3NP in 19M season: +105NP in 307M per 40M: +13.7NP
Trevor Cooney +1NP in 17M season: +60NP in 283M per 40M: +8.5NP
Jerami Grant 0NP in 40M season: +90NP in 338M per 40M: +10.7NP
Brandon Triche -1NP in 33M season: +233NP in 660M per 40M: +14.1NP
DaJuan Coleman Did not play season: +82NP in 279M per 40M: +11.8NP
James Southerland Did not play season: +207NP in 382M per 40M: +21.7NP
Comment: Fair led the way in the three games, with Carter-Williams just behind him despite the problems vs. Louisville. But Triche was actually the most productive per minute with 36NP in 81 minutes. Jerami Grant’s 27NP in these three games represented 34% of his season’s total.
The following players have lead, (or tied for the lead), the team in “net points” in games this year: Michael Carter-Williams 7, CJ Fair 6, Brandon Triche 4, James Southerland 2, Trevor Cooney 1
Shooting Breakdown:
SU was 15/35, (.429) from inside the arc, 3/14 from outside, (.214) and 16/20 from the line (.800). Pittsburgh was 21/35 (.600) from inside the arc, 3/15, (.200) from outside, and 14/21, (.667) from the line. 5 of our 18 baskets were assisted, (28%), vs. 19 of Pittsburgh‘s 24, (79%).
You can say what you want about the other numbers but the bottom line in this game was that Pittsburgh took one more shot from the field than we did, one more three pointer and one more free throw. They won because they did a better job of putting the ball in the basket.
For the season we are .502/.323/.671 and our opponents are .419/.283/.686.
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 55 points, 26 in the paint and 16 from the foul line. Thus we had 13 POP, or 24% of our points. Pittsburgh had 19 POP, or 29%. We averaged 28 POP last year, 33% of our points. So far this year we are again averaging 22 POP, 30% of our scoring. 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 20 points and 0 assists for a total of 07. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (9), Brandon Triche and CJ Fair (5) and James Southerland (3).
Possession:
Syracuse had 8 offensive and 16 defensive rebounds. Pittsburgh had 14 offensive and 30 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 24% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 47% of the time. For the year we have rebounded 40.5% of our misses and the opposition have rebounded 33% of theirs. We’ve out-rebounded 13 of 21 opponents by this measure.
Pittsburgh had 20 turnovers, of which 11 were Syracuse steals, (55%). Syracuse had 14 turnovers of which 9 were Pittsburgh steals, (64%). We had 44 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Pittsburgh had 53. We’ve won that battle 14 times in 21 games with two even. We are an average of +10 MP for the year.
And, 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: 49 FGA minus 8 offensive rebounds plus 14 turnovers plus 47.5% of 20 free throws = 64.5 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 65 possessions in which we scored 55 points or 0.846 points per possession. We are 1.093 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Pittsburgh: 50-14+20 plus 47.5% of 21 = 65.975 possessions. Let’s call that 66 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 65 points or 0.985 points per possession. The opposition is 0.868 on the season. Last season it was 0.830.
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 was 14-14, 11-13, 10-11, 20-27.
For the year, the average score per quarter is 18-14, 19-12, 20-15, 19-17. Last year the averages per quarter were: 19-13, 19-12, 21-14, 22-16. We’ve missed the 15 point mark 19 times in 84 quarters this year, and lost 21.
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.
Brandon Triche sat us down in the first half and CJ. Fair did it in the second half. CJ Fair has “sat us down” 11 times, Rakeem Christmas 8 times, Michael Carter-Williams 7 times, DaJuan Coleman 6 times, Brandon Triche 5 times, James Southerland 2 times and Baye Moussa Keita, Jerami Grant and Trevor Cooney 1 time each.
CJ Fair +19NP in 40M season: +299NP in 689M per 40M: +17.4NP
Michael Carter-Williams +4NP in 30M season: +311NP in 713M per 40M: +17.4NP
Rakeem Christmas +4NP in 30M season: +194NP in 472M per 40M: +16.4NP
Baye Moussa Keita +3NP in 19M season: +105NP in 307M per 40M: +13.7NP
Trevor Cooney +1NP in 17M season: +60NP in 283M per 40M: +8.5NP
Jerami Grant 0NP in 40M season: +90NP in 338M per 40M: +10.7NP
Brandon Triche -1NP in 33M season: +233NP in 660M per 40M: +14.1NP
DaJuan Coleman Did not play season: +82NP in 279M per 40M: +11.8NP
James Southerland Did not play season: +207NP in 382M per 40M: +21.7NP
Comment: Fair led the way in the three games, with Carter-Williams just behind him despite the problems vs. Louisville. But Triche was actually the most productive per minute with 36NP in 81 minutes. Jerami Grant’s 27NP in these three games represented 34% of his season’s total.
The following players have lead, (or tied for the lead), the team in “net points” in games this year: Michael Carter-Williams 7, CJ Fair 6, Brandon Triche 4, James Southerland 2, Trevor Cooney 1
Shooting Breakdown:
SU was 15/35, (.429) from inside the arc, 3/14 from outside, (.214) and 16/20 from the line (.800). Pittsburgh was 21/35 (.600) from inside the arc, 3/15, (.200) from outside, and 14/21, (.667) from the line. 5 of our 18 baskets were assisted, (28%), vs. 19 of Pittsburgh‘s 24, (79%).
You can say what you want about the other numbers but the bottom line in this game was that Pittsburgh took one more shot from the field than we did, one more three pointer and one more free throw. They won because they did a better job of putting the ball in the basket.
For the season we are .502/.323/.671 and our opponents are .419/.283/.686.
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 55 points, 26 in the paint and 16 from the foul line. Thus we had 13 POP, or 24% of our points. Pittsburgh had 19 POP, or 29%. We averaged 28 POP last year, 33% of our points. So far this year we are again averaging 22 POP, 30% of our scoring. 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 20 points and 0 assists for a total of 07. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (9), Brandon Triche and CJ Fair (5) and James Southerland (3).
Possession:
Syracuse had 8 offensive and 16 defensive rebounds. Pittsburgh had 14 offensive and 30 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 24% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 47% of the time. For the year we have rebounded 40.5% of our misses and the opposition have rebounded 33% of theirs. We’ve out-rebounded 13 of 21 opponents by this measure.
Pittsburgh had 20 turnovers, of which 11 were Syracuse steals, (55%). Syracuse had 14 turnovers of which 9 were Pittsburgh steals, (64%). We had 44 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Pittsburgh had 53. We’ve won that battle 14 times in 21 games with two even. We are an average of +10 MP for the year.
And, 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: 49 FGA minus 8 offensive rebounds plus 14 turnovers plus 47.5% of 20 free throws = 64.5 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 65 possessions in which we scored 55 points or 0.846 points per possession. We are 1.093 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Pittsburgh: 50-14+20 plus 47.5% of 21 = 65.975 possessions. Let’s call that 66 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 65 points or 0.985 points per possession. The opposition is 0.868 on the season. Last season it was 0.830.
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 was 14-14, 11-13, 10-11, 20-27.
For the year, the average score per quarter is 18-14, 19-12, 20-15, 19-17. Last year the averages per quarter were: 19-13, 19-12, 21-14, 22-16. We’ve missed the 15 point mark 19 times in 84 quarters this year, and lost 21.
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.
Brandon Triche sat us down in the first half and CJ. Fair did it in the second half. CJ Fair has “sat us down” 11 times, Rakeem Christmas 8 times, Michael Carter-Williams 7 times, DaJuan Coleman 6 times, Brandon Triche 5 times, James Southerland 2 times and Baye Moussa Keita, Jerami Grant and Trevor Cooney 1 time each.