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I’ll continue doing a statistical analysis of games this year with some of the off-beat numbers I like to look at. I’ll post them after each game, probably the next day.
The first thing I’ll look at is “NET POINTS”. The idea is that each statistic in the box score is arguably worth a point, (that is, somewhere between 0.5 and 1.5 points). A point is a point. Teams score an average of a point per possession so anything that gets you possession is a point. A missed shot will more often than not wind up in the possession of the other team. Most baskets are for two points so if the passer who set up the shot is given half credit, that’s worth a point. One half of the blocked shots will likely have gone in and they are almost always two pointers, so that’s a point. If you add up the “positives”, (points, + rebounds + assists + steals + blocks) and subtract the “negatives”, (missed field goals, missed free throws, turnovers and fouls), you have a number that summarizes a player’s statistical contributions to a game. Then, by averaging the net points per 40 minutes of play, you factor out differences in playing time and have a look at the player’s rate of production. Both are important. The game is won based on what you actually did, not the rate at which you did it. But the rate is a better measure of the skills you can bring to the game.
Of course, there are things players do both on and off the court that contribute to victory. Leadership, hard work, keeping the team loose, scrambling for loose balls, (that could be a statistic: when neither team is in control of the ball, who winds up with it?), sneaker-sneaker defense, keeping the ball moving on offense, etc. etc. My experience is that with rare exceptions, the players who are the most statistically productive are the ones who grade highest in the things not measured by statistics, as well.
Here are the NET POINTS of our scholarship player in the most recent game and their averages per 40 minutes of play for the season, (exhibitions games not included):
B. J. Johnson……….. 18NP in 29 minutes season: 86NP in 312 minutes per 40: 11.0
Michael Gbinije….. 14NP in 37 minutes season: 344NP in 931 minutes per 40: 14.8
Rakeem Christmas 9NP in 28 minutes season: 543NP in 956 minutes per 40: 22.7
Trevor Cooney…… 8NP in 31 minutes season: 255NP in 1045 minutes per 40: 9.8
Kaleb Joseph……….. 6NP in 21 minutes season: 151NP in 802 minutes per 40: 7.5
Ron Patterson…….. 3NP in 27 minutes season: 39NP in 383 minutes per 40: 4.1
Tyler Roberson……. -1NP in 15 minutes season: 244NP in 689 minutes per 40: 14.2
Chinoso Obokoh….. -1NP in 12 minutes season: 13NP in 78 minutes per 40: 6.7
DNP-CD
none
INJURED
DaJuan Coleman…. 0NP in 0 minutes season: 0NP in 0 minutes per 40: 0.0
Chris McCullough.. 0NP in 0 minutes season: 171NP in 450 minutes per 40: 15.2
SUSPENDED
None
Comment: It was amazing that we could beat the #9 team in the country on the road with Rakeem Christmas getting 9 NP, Trevor Cooney 8, (but a well-placed 8)Kaleb Joseph 6 and Tyler Roberson 1NP. But we did thanks to BJ Johnson and the way we played defense.
Rakeem Christmas has led in net points 15 times, Mike Gbinije 5 times, Chris McCullough 4 times, Tyler Roberson 3 times, BJ Johnson twice and Trevor Cooney once.
POSSESSION
Before you can score you’ve got to get the rock. Syracuse had 10 offensive and 29 defensive rebounds. They had 6 offensive and 29 defensive rebounds. (only 16 of 74 rebounds were taken down by the offensive team: 21.6%.) When we missed we got the ball 10 of 39 times, (25.6%). When they missed, they got the ball 6 of 35 times (17.1%). We’ve won the rebounding battle by this measure 18 times in 27 games. For the year we’ve averaged getting 34.4% of our misses and our opposition has gotten 30.0% of theirs.
Effective offensive rebounding: We got 14 second chance points off our 10 offensive rebounds, 1.40 points per rebound. They got 9 for their 6 = 1.50. For the year we’ve averaged 1.01 points per offensive rebound: they’ve averaged 0.92. We’ve led in this stat 16 times in 27 games.
Of our 13 turnovers, 9 were their steals and 4 were our own miscues. Of their 14 turnovers, 11 were Syracuse steals and 3 were their fault. We’ve had fewer turnovers in 19 of 26 games with 2 even and fewer unforced turnovers in 12 games with 6 even. Last year we had fewer turnovers in 29 of 34 games with 2 even. We are averaging 12 turnovers, 6 unforced. Our opposition is averaging 14/6.
Pitt’s ability to avoid turnovers also cut into the impact of our rebounding margin. If you add our 39 rebounds to their 14 turnovers, we had 53 “manufactured possessions”. They had 35 + 13 = 48, so we were +5. We have won that battle 20 of 28 times with 1 even. For the season we’ve averaged 51 to 46 (+5).
SHOOTING
It’s still what the game is all about. It’s what this game was all about, for sure. We were 19 for 41, (.463) inside the arc, 4 for 16, (.250) outside it and 15 for 22, (.682) from the line. They were 14 for 27 (.519), 3/22 (.136) and 23/30 (.76.7). We’ve led in two point field goal percentage in 15 of 28 games, and in free throw percentage in 12 games (but only 6 times in the last 19). We’ve led in three point field goals percentage, believe it or not, in 16 games. For the season we are .491/.313/.658. Our opposition is .453/.311/.710.
We had 30 points in the paint, 12 off turnovers, 14 “second chance” points, 4 fast break points and 25 from the bench. Our opposition had 26 points in the paint, 9 off turnovers, 9 “second chance” points, 2 fast break points and 16 from the bench. We also had 32 of Pat’s “first chance points” (total points minus second chance points, fast break points and made free throws) to 26. We actually led in all these ancillary stats since the Loyola game.
We’ve led in PIP 19 times with 2 ties, POTO 19 times with 1 tie, FCP 17 times with 1 tie, SCP 15 times with 1 tie, FBP 15 times with 4 ties and BP 11 times, with 2 ties. For the season we are averaging 33-25 PIP, 15-11 POTO, 34-32 FCP, 12-10 SCP, 9-6 FBP and 9-15 BP.
We had 65 points, 30 in the paint, 12 from the arc and 15 from the line so we had 20”POP”, (points outside the paint: 65-30-15) and scored 8 points, (20 POP-12 from the arc), from what I’ll call the Twilight Zone”: that area between the paint and the arc that is the land of the pull-up jump shot, a lost art but a great weapon. They had 60/26/9/23= 11 POP with 2 from the Twilight Zone, a remarkably anemic output from one of the nation’s best shooting teams. We’ve only led in POP 12 times but we’ve led in TZ points 15 times with 1 tie in 28 games. For the year we are averaging 23 POP and 7.5 TZ, our opposition 26/7. The game is so much easier when you don’t have to go to the basket for all your points.
11 of our 23 baskets were assisted (.478) and also 11 of their 17 (.647), very high percentages. There wasn’t a lot of slashing to the basket in this game. For the year we are assisting on 62.3% of our baskets to 66.8% for the opposition, who have had a higher percentage in 17 of 28 games, with 1 tie. Assists tend to come more often from jump shots than lay-ups or dunks so the more assists you get, the more you are settling for jump shots to try to win the game which is often a bad strategy. (oddly our leading assist guy was Tyler Roberson with 3. He scored only 1 point himself.)
You compute “Offensive Efficiency” by taking field goal attempts – offensive rebounds + turnovers plus 47.5% of free throws attempted and dividing that into the number of points. We were 57 FGA - 10 OREBs + 13 TOs + (.475 x 22) = 70.45 possessions. They were 49 -6+ 14+ (.475 x 30) = 71.25 possessions. Since possessions shouldn’t be more than one off, I’ll count that as 70 possessions in which we scored 65 points, (0.929 points per possession) and 71 possessions in which they scored 60 points, (0.845). We have, of course, led 18 of 28 games in offensive efficiency since the winning team always leads in that stat. For the year we are averaging 1.031 points per possession to 0.942 for the opposition.
There were 141 combined possessions in this game. We’ve averaged 133 possessions this year. We averaged 122 last year, so the pace appears to be better than it was last season.
Hubert Davis once told us to “Get an offensive dude”. I decided to name an “Offensive Dude Of the Game, or an O-Dog, and use the hockey concept of points + assists. In this game BJ Johnson scored 19 points with 0 assists for 19 “hockey” points and thus was our ODOG. He’s really developing into a star quality player and is making the defense pay for the extra attention on Rakeem. Rakeem Christmas has been the O-Dog 11 times, Michael Gbinije 8 times, Trevor Cooney 6 times, BJ Johnson twice, Kaleb Joseph and Chris McCullough once each.
Every other level of basketball plays quarters. To check the consistency of our performance, I look at what the score was at the 10 minute mark of each half to see what the quarterly scores would be. At a minimum, I think we want to score at least 15 points in each quarter and try to hold the opposition to less than that. The quarterly breakdown for this game 15-10, 12-12, 15-13, 23-25. For the season we have an average of 16-13, 17-14, 16-17, 19-18. We’ve won 64 of 112 quarters with 4 even. We’ve scored 15 or more in 74 quarters and held the opposition under that 53 times.
I also like to keep track who sits us down in each half. Besides being fun it gives an indication of who Coach B likes to design plays for since opening possessions are more likely to be scripted. Rakeem Christmas opened with a dunk at 18:36 and Mike Gbinije did the same at 16:12 of the second half. The longest we’d had to wait this year (5:02) was the first half against Miami. The average time we’ve had to wait is 1 minute 28 seconds. Rakeem Christmas has sat us down 15 times, Trevor Cooney 10 times, and Michael Gbinije 8 times, Tyler Roberson 7 times, Kaleb Joseph 6 times, (more than you’d think), and Chris McCullough 5 times.
Another fun fact is the “Taco Bell MVP”: the guy who gets us to 75 points so people can free, (or is it discounted?) tacos at Taco Bell. No Tacos in this one, Trevor needed to hit one of those threes he kept clanging. Michael Gbinije and Rakeem Christmas have twice got us Tacos, Trevor Cooney, BJ Johnson and Ron Patterson have done it each once. (I wonder how many point we have to score to get real meat in the tacos?) The longest we’ve had to wait after getting close to 75 points is 3:31.
FOULS
My theory about fouls is that the team that attempts the most two point shots and scores the most in the paint will tend to get fouled the most. If the numbers are as predicted or close, there’s nothing to be read into them but if there’s a big disparity, it makes you wonder about how the game was called.
In this game, we attempted 41 two point shots to 27, scored 30 points in the paint to 26 and got fouled 17 times to 19, attempting 22 foul shots to 30. The ratio of two point attempts to times fouled was 2.4 for us and 1.4 for them. The ratio of points in the paint to times fouled was 1.8 for us to 1.4 for them. The ratio of free throw attempts to fouls called on the other team was 1.3 for us and 1.6 for them. The team attempting the comeback got to the line more than the team protecting the lead.
Last year we attempted 1368 two point shots to 993 for the opposition and scored 1028 PIP to 753. We committed 546 fouls to 598 and went to the line 720 to 607 times, suggesting that there should be a relationship between two points attempts and points in the point and how many fouls are called on the other team and how many times you got to the line. The ratio of two point attempts to times fouled was 2.3 for us and 1.8 for them. The ratio of points in the paint to times fouled was 1.7 for us to 1.4 for them. The ratio of free throw attempts to fouls called on the other team was 1.2 for us and 1.1 for them.
This year we have taken 1147 two point shots and scored 908 points in the paint. We’ve been fouled 500 times and taken 581 free throws. Our opposition has taken 973 two point shots and scored 705 points in the paint. They’ve been fouled 429 times and taken only 480 free throws. The ratio of two point attempts to times fouled has been 2.3 for us and 2.3 for them. The ratio of points in the paint to times fouled has been 1.8 for us to 1.6 for them. The ratio of free throw attempts to fouls called on the other team has been 1.2 for us and 1.1 for them. So the officiating overall has been pretty even-handed.
“MY MAN”
A reporter once asked Casey Stengel how come he won so many games with the Yankees. He said “Because I never play a game without “my man”. The reporter wondered who his man was. Casey suggested “You could look it up.” The reporter did look it up and found that Yogi Berra had played in every game that season at some positon: catcher, left field, pinch-hitting, something. He was the player Stengel had the highest regard for and the most trust in, so he didn’t want to do without him.
Who is Jim Boeheim’s “man” this season? The only way to tell is to see who plays the most minutes each game. In this game Michael Gbinije led with 37 minutes. It was the first time in 17 games we’ve not had a 40 minute man. Trevor Cooney has been the “Man” 17 times, Rakeem Christmas and Michael Gbinije 10 times, Chris McCullough and Kaleb Joseph 4 times each and Tyler Roberson once. Cooney still leads the team in minutes played with 1045, 89 more than any other player.
The first thing I’ll look at is “NET POINTS”. The idea is that each statistic in the box score is arguably worth a point, (that is, somewhere between 0.5 and 1.5 points). A point is a point. Teams score an average of a point per possession so anything that gets you possession is a point. A missed shot will more often than not wind up in the possession of the other team. Most baskets are for two points so if the passer who set up the shot is given half credit, that’s worth a point. One half of the blocked shots will likely have gone in and they are almost always two pointers, so that’s a point. If you add up the “positives”, (points, + rebounds + assists + steals + blocks) and subtract the “negatives”, (missed field goals, missed free throws, turnovers and fouls), you have a number that summarizes a player’s statistical contributions to a game. Then, by averaging the net points per 40 minutes of play, you factor out differences in playing time and have a look at the player’s rate of production. Both are important. The game is won based on what you actually did, not the rate at which you did it. But the rate is a better measure of the skills you can bring to the game.
Of course, there are things players do both on and off the court that contribute to victory. Leadership, hard work, keeping the team loose, scrambling for loose balls, (that could be a statistic: when neither team is in control of the ball, who winds up with it?), sneaker-sneaker defense, keeping the ball moving on offense, etc. etc. My experience is that with rare exceptions, the players who are the most statistically productive are the ones who grade highest in the things not measured by statistics, as well.
Here are the NET POINTS of our scholarship player in the most recent game and their averages per 40 minutes of play for the season, (exhibitions games not included):
B. J. Johnson……….. 18NP in 29 minutes season: 86NP in 312 minutes per 40: 11.0
Michael Gbinije….. 14NP in 37 minutes season: 344NP in 931 minutes per 40: 14.8
Rakeem Christmas 9NP in 28 minutes season: 543NP in 956 minutes per 40: 22.7
Trevor Cooney…… 8NP in 31 minutes season: 255NP in 1045 minutes per 40: 9.8
Kaleb Joseph……….. 6NP in 21 minutes season: 151NP in 802 minutes per 40: 7.5
Ron Patterson…….. 3NP in 27 minutes season: 39NP in 383 minutes per 40: 4.1
Tyler Roberson……. -1NP in 15 minutes season: 244NP in 689 minutes per 40: 14.2
Chinoso Obokoh….. -1NP in 12 minutes season: 13NP in 78 minutes per 40: 6.7
DNP-CD
none
INJURED
DaJuan Coleman…. 0NP in 0 minutes season: 0NP in 0 minutes per 40: 0.0
Chris McCullough.. 0NP in 0 minutes season: 171NP in 450 minutes per 40: 15.2
SUSPENDED
None
Comment: It was amazing that we could beat the #9 team in the country on the road with Rakeem Christmas getting 9 NP, Trevor Cooney 8, (but a well-placed 8)Kaleb Joseph 6 and Tyler Roberson 1NP. But we did thanks to BJ Johnson and the way we played defense.
Rakeem Christmas has led in net points 15 times, Mike Gbinije 5 times, Chris McCullough 4 times, Tyler Roberson 3 times, BJ Johnson twice and Trevor Cooney once.
POSSESSION
Before you can score you’ve got to get the rock. Syracuse had 10 offensive and 29 defensive rebounds. They had 6 offensive and 29 defensive rebounds. (only 16 of 74 rebounds were taken down by the offensive team: 21.6%.) When we missed we got the ball 10 of 39 times, (25.6%). When they missed, they got the ball 6 of 35 times (17.1%). We’ve won the rebounding battle by this measure 18 times in 27 games. For the year we’ve averaged getting 34.4% of our misses and our opposition has gotten 30.0% of theirs.
Effective offensive rebounding: We got 14 second chance points off our 10 offensive rebounds, 1.40 points per rebound. They got 9 for their 6 = 1.50. For the year we’ve averaged 1.01 points per offensive rebound: they’ve averaged 0.92. We’ve led in this stat 16 times in 27 games.
Of our 13 turnovers, 9 were their steals and 4 were our own miscues. Of their 14 turnovers, 11 were Syracuse steals and 3 were their fault. We’ve had fewer turnovers in 19 of 26 games with 2 even and fewer unforced turnovers in 12 games with 6 even. Last year we had fewer turnovers in 29 of 34 games with 2 even. We are averaging 12 turnovers, 6 unforced. Our opposition is averaging 14/6.
Pitt’s ability to avoid turnovers also cut into the impact of our rebounding margin. If you add our 39 rebounds to their 14 turnovers, we had 53 “manufactured possessions”. They had 35 + 13 = 48, so we were +5. We have won that battle 20 of 28 times with 1 even. For the season we’ve averaged 51 to 46 (+5).
SHOOTING
It’s still what the game is all about. It’s what this game was all about, for sure. We were 19 for 41, (.463) inside the arc, 4 for 16, (.250) outside it and 15 for 22, (.682) from the line. They were 14 for 27 (.519), 3/22 (.136) and 23/30 (.76.7). We’ve led in two point field goal percentage in 15 of 28 games, and in free throw percentage in 12 games (but only 6 times in the last 19). We’ve led in three point field goals percentage, believe it or not, in 16 games. For the season we are .491/.313/.658. Our opposition is .453/.311/.710.
We had 30 points in the paint, 12 off turnovers, 14 “second chance” points, 4 fast break points and 25 from the bench. Our opposition had 26 points in the paint, 9 off turnovers, 9 “second chance” points, 2 fast break points and 16 from the bench. We also had 32 of Pat’s “first chance points” (total points minus second chance points, fast break points and made free throws) to 26. We actually led in all these ancillary stats since the Loyola game.
We’ve led in PIP 19 times with 2 ties, POTO 19 times with 1 tie, FCP 17 times with 1 tie, SCP 15 times with 1 tie, FBP 15 times with 4 ties and BP 11 times, with 2 ties. For the season we are averaging 33-25 PIP, 15-11 POTO, 34-32 FCP, 12-10 SCP, 9-6 FBP and 9-15 BP.
We had 65 points, 30 in the paint, 12 from the arc and 15 from the line so we had 20”POP”, (points outside the paint: 65-30-15) and scored 8 points, (20 POP-12 from the arc), from what I’ll call the Twilight Zone”: that area between the paint and the arc that is the land of the pull-up jump shot, a lost art but a great weapon. They had 60/26/9/23= 11 POP with 2 from the Twilight Zone, a remarkably anemic output from one of the nation’s best shooting teams. We’ve only led in POP 12 times but we’ve led in TZ points 15 times with 1 tie in 28 games. For the year we are averaging 23 POP and 7.5 TZ, our opposition 26/7. The game is so much easier when you don’t have to go to the basket for all your points.
11 of our 23 baskets were assisted (.478) and also 11 of their 17 (.647), very high percentages. There wasn’t a lot of slashing to the basket in this game. For the year we are assisting on 62.3% of our baskets to 66.8% for the opposition, who have had a higher percentage in 17 of 28 games, with 1 tie. Assists tend to come more often from jump shots than lay-ups or dunks so the more assists you get, the more you are settling for jump shots to try to win the game which is often a bad strategy. (oddly our leading assist guy was Tyler Roberson with 3. He scored only 1 point himself.)
You compute “Offensive Efficiency” by taking field goal attempts – offensive rebounds + turnovers plus 47.5% of free throws attempted and dividing that into the number of points. We were 57 FGA - 10 OREBs + 13 TOs + (.475 x 22) = 70.45 possessions. They were 49 -6+ 14+ (.475 x 30) = 71.25 possessions. Since possessions shouldn’t be more than one off, I’ll count that as 70 possessions in which we scored 65 points, (0.929 points per possession) and 71 possessions in which they scored 60 points, (0.845). We have, of course, led 18 of 28 games in offensive efficiency since the winning team always leads in that stat. For the year we are averaging 1.031 points per possession to 0.942 for the opposition.
There were 141 combined possessions in this game. We’ve averaged 133 possessions this year. We averaged 122 last year, so the pace appears to be better than it was last season.
Hubert Davis once told us to “Get an offensive dude”. I decided to name an “Offensive Dude Of the Game, or an O-Dog, and use the hockey concept of points + assists. In this game BJ Johnson scored 19 points with 0 assists for 19 “hockey” points and thus was our ODOG. He’s really developing into a star quality player and is making the defense pay for the extra attention on Rakeem. Rakeem Christmas has been the O-Dog 11 times, Michael Gbinije 8 times, Trevor Cooney 6 times, BJ Johnson twice, Kaleb Joseph and Chris McCullough once each.
Every other level of basketball plays quarters. To check the consistency of our performance, I look at what the score was at the 10 minute mark of each half to see what the quarterly scores would be. At a minimum, I think we want to score at least 15 points in each quarter and try to hold the opposition to less than that. The quarterly breakdown for this game 15-10, 12-12, 15-13, 23-25. For the season we have an average of 16-13, 17-14, 16-17, 19-18. We’ve won 64 of 112 quarters with 4 even. We’ve scored 15 or more in 74 quarters and held the opposition under that 53 times.
I also like to keep track who sits us down in each half. Besides being fun it gives an indication of who Coach B likes to design plays for since opening possessions are more likely to be scripted. Rakeem Christmas opened with a dunk at 18:36 and Mike Gbinije did the same at 16:12 of the second half. The longest we’d had to wait this year (5:02) was the first half against Miami. The average time we’ve had to wait is 1 minute 28 seconds. Rakeem Christmas has sat us down 15 times, Trevor Cooney 10 times, and Michael Gbinije 8 times, Tyler Roberson 7 times, Kaleb Joseph 6 times, (more than you’d think), and Chris McCullough 5 times.
Another fun fact is the “Taco Bell MVP”: the guy who gets us to 75 points so people can free, (or is it discounted?) tacos at Taco Bell. No Tacos in this one, Trevor needed to hit one of those threes he kept clanging. Michael Gbinije and Rakeem Christmas have twice got us Tacos, Trevor Cooney, BJ Johnson and Ron Patterson have done it each once. (I wonder how many point we have to score to get real meat in the tacos?) The longest we’ve had to wait after getting close to 75 points is 3:31.
FOULS
My theory about fouls is that the team that attempts the most two point shots and scores the most in the paint will tend to get fouled the most. If the numbers are as predicted or close, there’s nothing to be read into them but if there’s a big disparity, it makes you wonder about how the game was called.
In this game, we attempted 41 two point shots to 27, scored 30 points in the paint to 26 and got fouled 17 times to 19, attempting 22 foul shots to 30. The ratio of two point attempts to times fouled was 2.4 for us and 1.4 for them. The ratio of points in the paint to times fouled was 1.8 for us to 1.4 for them. The ratio of free throw attempts to fouls called on the other team was 1.3 for us and 1.6 for them. The team attempting the comeback got to the line more than the team protecting the lead.
Last year we attempted 1368 two point shots to 993 for the opposition and scored 1028 PIP to 753. We committed 546 fouls to 598 and went to the line 720 to 607 times, suggesting that there should be a relationship between two points attempts and points in the point and how many fouls are called on the other team and how many times you got to the line. The ratio of two point attempts to times fouled was 2.3 for us and 1.8 for them. The ratio of points in the paint to times fouled was 1.7 for us to 1.4 for them. The ratio of free throw attempts to fouls called on the other team was 1.2 for us and 1.1 for them.
This year we have taken 1147 two point shots and scored 908 points in the paint. We’ve been fouled 500 times and taken 581 free throws. Our opposition has taken 973 two point shots and scored 705 points in the paint. They’ve been fouled 429 times and taken only 480 free throws. The ratio of two point attempts to times fouled has been 2.3 for us and 2.3 for them. The ratio of points in the paint to times fouled has been 1.8 for us to 1.6 for them. The ratio of free throw attempts to fouls called on the other team has been 1.2 for us and 1.1 for them. So the officiating overall has been pretty even-handed.
“MY MAN”
A reporter once asked Casey Stengel how come he won so many games with the Yankees. He said “Because I never play a game without “my man”. The reporter wondered who his man was. Casey suggested “You could look it up.” The reporter did look it up and found that Yogi Berra had played in every game that season at some positon: catcher, left field, pinch-hitting, something. He was the player Stengel had the highest regard for and the most trust in, so he didn’t want to do without him.
Who is Jim Boeheim’s “man” this season? The only way to tell is to see who plays the most minutes each game. In this game Michael Gbinije led with 37 minutes. It was the first time in 17 games we’ve not had a 40 minute man. Trevor Cooney has been the “Man” 17 times, Rakeem Christmas and Michael Gbinije 10 times, Chris McCullough and Kaleb Joseph 4 times each and Tyler Roberson once. Cooney still leads the team in minutes played with 1045, 89 more than any other player.