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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.)
James Southerland +19NP in 30M season: +330NP in 725M per 40M: +18.2NP
Brandon Triche +19NP in 37M season: +323NP in 1069M per 40M: +12.1NP
Michael Carter-Williams +18NP in 40M season: +487NP in 1117M per 40M: +17.4NP
CJ Fair +14NP in 37M season: +469NP in 1099M per 40M: +17.1NP
Baye Moussa Keita +8NP in 20M season: +142NP in 482M per 40M: +11.8NP
Jerami Grant +3NP in 3M season: +123NP in 483M per 40M: +10.2NP
Rakeem Christmas +1NP in 20M season: +233NP in 712M per 40M: +13.1NP
DaJuan Coleman 0NP in 0M season: +81NP in 290M per 40M: +11.2NP
Trevor Cooney -4NP in 3M season +51NP in 366M per 40M: +5.6NP
Comment: The guys we need to lead in net points, (BT, JS, MCW, CJ) did so. It was the first time Brandon led, (or tied for the lead) since the first Seton Hall game, 8 games ago.
CJ Fair has led in “net points” 11 times, Michael Carter-Williams 10 times, Brandon Triche 7 times, James Southerland 7 times, Jerami Grant and Trevor Cooney once, (including ties).
Shooting Breakdown:
SU was 18/33, (.545) from inside the arc, 9/15 from outside, (.600) and 12/19 from the line (.632). Seton Hall was 11/21 (.524) from inside the arc, 10/20, (.500) from outside, and 11/17, (.647) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 70 points and they score 69 points. If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 14-18, not 24-8.
For the season we are .497/.320/.685 and our opponents are .428/.299/.683. 21 of our 27 baskets were assisted, (78%), vs. 18 of Seton Hall‘s 21, (86%). They had more assists than we had baskets.
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: 48 FGA minus 10 offensive rebounds plus 7 turnovers plus 47.5% of 19 free throws = 54.025 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 54 possessions in which we scored 75 points or 1.389 (after 0.696 vs. G-town), points per possession. We are 1.083 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Seton Hall: 41-4+10 plus 47.5% of 17 = 55.075 possessions. Let’s call that 55 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 63 points or 1.145 points per possession. The opposition is 0.901 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 75 points, 26 in the paint and 12 from the foul line. Thus we had 37 POP,( after only 11 vs. Georgetown), or 49% of our points. Seton Hall had 32 POP, or 51%. It was a shooter’s game, just like the old days. 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 Brandon Triche, (again for the first sime saince we last played Seton Hall) with 17 points and 5 assists for a total of 22. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (13), CJ Fair (9) Brandon Triche (7) and James Southerland (5).
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 14-24, 20-10, 19-14, 22-15.
For the year, the average score per quarter is 16-14, 18-12, 18-15, 20-18. Last year the averages per quarter were: 17-14, 18-12, 19-15, 20-18. We’ve missed the 15 point mark 35 times in 128 quarters this year, and lost 36.
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, Rakeem Christmas in the second half. CJ Fair and Rakeem Christmas have “sat us down” 14 times, Michael Carter-Williams 13 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 10 offensive and 14 defensive rebounds Seton Hall had 4 offensive and 19 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 42% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 17% of the time. For the year we have rebounded 40% of our misses and the opposition have rebounded 33% of theirs. We’ve out-rebounded 20 of 32 opponents by this measure.
Seton Hall had 10 turnovers, of which 5 were Syracuse steals, (50%). Syracuse had 7 turnovers of which 5 were Seton Hall steals, (71%). We had 39 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Seton Hall had 25. We have won this battle 21 times in 32 games, with two games even. We’ve averaged 8 more MP’s per game, +6 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 27 on the season but only 18 in Big East games. In the Seton Hall game Rakeem Christmas had 6 points, 4 rebounds and 1 blocks while Baye Moussa Keita had 8 points,4 rebounds and 0 blocks, DuJuan Coleman had 0 points, 0 rebounds and 0 blocks for a total of 23. Christmas has contributed the most 20 times, Keita 9 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”.
Michael Carter-Williams and James Southerland both played 40 minutes played in this game. It was the first time all season that James had won or tied for most minutes played. (JB took out CJ Fair for 3 minutes and that was the 3 minutes Jerami Grant got). Michael Carter-Williams has led in minutes played 16 times, CJ Fair 12 times, Brandon Triche 10 times Jerami Grant twice and James Southerland , (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.)
James Southerland +19NP in 30M season: +330NP in 725M per 40M: +18.2NP
Brandon Triche +19NP in 37M season: +323NP in 1069M per 40M: +12.1NP
Michael Carter-Williams +18NP in 40M season: +487NP in 1117M per 40M: +17.4NP
CJ Fair +14NP in 37M season: +469NP in 1099M per 40M: +17.1NP
Baye Moussa Keita +8NP in 20M season: +142NP in 482M per 40M: +11.8NP
Jerami Grant +3NP in 3M season: +123NP in 483M per 40M: +10.2NP
Rakeem Christmas +1NP in 20M season: +233NP in 712M per 40M: +13.1NP
DaJuan Coleman 0NP in 0M season: +81NP in 290M per 40M: +11.2NP
Trevor Cooney -4NP in 3M season +51NP in 366M per 40M: +5.6NP
Comment: The guys we need to lead in net points, (BT, JS, MCW, CJ) did so. It was the first time Brandon led, (or tied for the lead) since the first Seton Hall game, 8 games ago.
CJ Fair has led in “net points” 11 times, Michael Carter-Williams 10 times, Brandon Triche 7 times, James Southerland 7 times, Jerami Grant and Trevor Cooney once, (including ties).
Shooting Breakdown:
SU was 18/33, (.545) from inside the arc, 9/15 from outside, (.600) and 12/19 from the line (.632). Seton Hall was 11/21 (.524) from inside the arc, 10/20, (.500) from outside, and 11/17, (.647) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 70 points and they score 69 points. If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 14-18, not 24-8.
For the season we are .497/.320/.685 and our opponents are .428/.299/.683. 21 of our 27 baskets were assisted, (78%), vs. 18 of Seton Hall‘s 21, (86%). They had more assists than we had baskets.
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: 48 FGA minus 10 offensive rebounds plus 7 turnovers plus 47.5% of 19 free throws = 54.025 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 54 possessions in which we scored 75 points or 1.389 (after 0.696 vs. G-town), points per possession. We are 1.083 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Seton Hall: 41-4+10 plus 47.5% of 17 = 55.075 possessions. Let’s call that 55 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 63 points or 1.145 points per possession. The opposition is 0.901 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 75 points, 26 in the paint and 12 from the foul line. Thus we had 37 POP,( after only 11 vs. Georgetown), or 49% of our points. Seton Hall had 32 POP, or 51%. It was a shooter’s game, just like the old days. 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 Brandon Triche, (again for the first sime saince we last played Seton Hall) with 17 points and 5 assists for a total of 22. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (13), CJ Fair (9) Brandon Triche (7) and James Southerland (5).
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 14-24, 20-10, 19-14, 22-15.
For the year, the average score per quarter is 16-14, 18-12, 18-15, 20-18. Last year the averages per quarter were: 17-14, 18-12, 19-15, 20-18. We’ve missed the 15 point mark 35 times in 128 quarters this year, and lost 36.
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, Rakeem Christmas in the second half. CJ Fair and Rakeem Christmas have “sat us down” 14 times, Michael Carter-Williams 13 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 10 offensive and 14 defensive rebounds Seton Hall had 4 offensive and 19 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 42% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 17% of the time. For the year we have rebounded 40% of our misses and the opposition have rebounded 33% of theirs. We’ve out-rebounded 20 of 32 opponents by this measure.
Seton Hall had 10 turnovers, of which 5 were Syracuse steals, (50%). Syracuse had 7 turnovers of which 5 were Seton Hall steals, (71%). We had 39 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Seton Hall had 25. We have won this battle 21 times in 32 games, with two games even. We’ve averaged 8 more MP’s per game, +6 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 27 on the season but only 18 in Big East games. In the Seton Hall game Rakeem Christmas had 6 points, 4 rebounds and 1 blocks while Baye Moussa Keita had 8 points,4 rebounds and 0 blocks, DuJuan Coleman had 0 points, 0 rebounds and 0 blocks for a total of 23. Christmas has contributed the most 20 times, Keita 9 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”.
Michael Carter-Williams and James Southerland both played 40 minutes played in this game. It was the first time all season that James had won or tied for most minutes played. (JB took out CJ Fair for 3 minutes and that was the 3 minutes Jerami Grant got). Michael Carter-Williams has led in minutes played 16 times, CJ Fair 12 times, Brandon Triche 10 times Jerami Grant twice and James Southerland , (this includes ties).