Net Points, etc. - West Virginia

[SWC75]

I will again be doing a report after each game this season and a summary report at the end of each month. (I’ve eliminated some stats from previous years to streamline this post.)

Net Points
(points + rebounds + assists + steals + blocks minus missed field goals and free throws, turnovers and personal fouls)

Joe Girard +18NP in 29 minutes = +223NP in 752 minutes = +11.9NP/40 for season
Marek Dolezaj +18NP in 38 minutes = +346NP in 946 minutes = +14.6NP/40 for season
Buddy Boeheim +16NP in 37 minutes = +302NP in 867 minutes = +13.9NP/40 for season
Quincy Guerrier +12NP in 35 minutes = +403NP in 886 minutes = +18.2NP/40 for season
Robert Braswell +7NP in 29 minutes = +64NP in 242 minutes = +10.6NP/40 for season
Kadary Richmond +6NP in 14 minutes = +217NP in 558 minutes = +15.6NP/40 for season
Alan Griffin 0NP in 11 minutes = +373NP in 806 minutes = +18.5NP/40 for season
Jesse Edwards -3NP in 7 minutes = +34NP in 135 minutes = +10.1NP/40 for season


DNP coach’s decision
John Bol Ajak 0NP in 0 minutes = -1NP in 50 minutes = -0.8NP/40 for season
Frank Anselem 0NP in 0 minutes = +5NP in 26 minutes = +7.7NP/40 for season
Woody Newton 0NP in 0 minutes = +34NP in 87 minutes = +15.6NP/40 for season
Chaz Owens 0NP in 0 minutes = 0NP in 2 minutes = 0.0NP/40 for season

Injured and couldn’t play
Bourama Sidibie 0NP in 0 minutes = 0NP in 15 minutes = 0.0NP/40 for season

Suspended

Redshirting
None (that we know of)

Out for the year
None

Left Team
None


Awards

Offensive Dude of the Game, (O-Dog)
(Points plus assists)
Buddy Boeheim 25 points and 1 assists = 26

Shooting Efficiency
(Points minus missed field goal and free throw attempts)
Buddy Boeheim 25 points – 9 mfg – 1 mft = +15

Scoring Efficiency
(Percentage of points scored divided by points they would have scored if they made every shot- minimum 10 possible points)
Marek Dolezaj 12 points of 16 = 75.0%

My Man
(Who played the most minutes?)
Marek Dolezaj 34 minutes

TEAM STATS

Possession

Rebounding
(Add each team’s offensive rebounds to their opponent’s defensive rebounds. Then figure the offensive rebounds as a percentage of that)
We rebounded 4 of our 26 misses = 15.4%
They rebounded 19 of their 44 misses = 43.1%

Effective Offensive Rebounding
(Divide second chance points by the offensive rebounds)
We got 4 points on 4 O-Rebs = 1.000 points/O-Reb
They got 14 points on 15 O-Rebs = 0.933 points/O-Reb

Unforced Turnovers
(Total turnovers – the other team’s steals = unforced turnovers)
We had 15 turnovers – 8 steals = 7 unforced
They had 14 turnovers – 6 steals = 8 unforced

Points per Takeover
(Points off turnovers divided by the number of turnovers the other team had)
We had 4 points from 14 takeovers = 0.286 points/takeaway
They had 21 points from 19 takeovers = 1.105 points/takeaway

Unsettled Situations
(Effective offensive rebounding + Points per Takeover: [Second Chance Points+ Points off Turnovers] divided by [Offensive Rebounds + Opposition Turnovers)
We had 8 points in 18 unsettled situations = 0.444 points
They had 35 points in 34 unsettled situations = 1.0291 points

Manufactured Possessions
(One teams rebounds + the other team’s turnovers)
We had 29 + 14 = 43
They had 41 + 15 = 56

Hustle Stats
One of the radio sponsors gives an award to the team that had the most “hustle stats”, which they define as rebounds + blocks + steals. I decided to keep track of that, too:
We had 29 + 6 + 6 = 41
They had 41 + 1 + 8 = 50

Scoring

Shooting
(Shots made and attempted and the percentage for two point goal attempts, three point attempts and free throws)
We were 13 for 21 on twos, (61.9%), 14 for 31 on threes (45.2%) and 7 for 11 on frees (63.6%)
They were 15 for 44 on twos, (34.1%), 11 for 26 on threes (42.3%) and 9 for 11 on frees (81.8%)
Combined percentages were: 619 + 452 + 636 = 1707 vs. 341 + 423 + 818 = 1582 = +125

Points
(PIP= points in the paint, “The Inner Sanctum”
POP = points outside the paint, which is total points – PIP -free throws made
OL= points from “The Outer Limits” (three point shots)
TZ= “Twilight Zone”, which is POP – TREY, (two point jumpers from outside the paint)
FBP = fast break points
POTO= points off turnovers

We had 20 PIP, 48 POP, 42 OL, 6 TZ, 4 POTO, 14 FBP
They had 26 PIP, 37 POP, 33 OL, 4 TZ, 21 POTO, 15 FBP

Fast Break Percentage
(FBP/(defensive rebounds + blocks + steals)
We scored 14 FBP in 37 opportunities (37.8%)
They scored 15 FBP in 31 opportunities (48.4%)

First Chance/Second Chance
(FCP is First Chance Points, which is total points - second chance points – fast break points – free throws made. SCP is second chance points.)
We had 50 FCP and 4 SCP
They had 34 FCP and 14 SCP

Starters/Bench
(Total points – bench points = starters points)
Our starters scored 64 points and our bench scored 11 points.
Their starters scored 59 points and their bench scored 13 points.

Assists
(The percentage of a team’s baskets that were assisted)
We assisted 18 of our 27 field goals = 66.7%
They assisted 18 of their 26 field goals = 69.2%

Team Offensive Possession Efficiency
(Possessions: Field goals attempted - offensive rebounds + turnovers + 47.5% of free throws attempted. Efficiency is total points divided by possessions)
We scored 75 points in 68 possessions = 1.103 points/ possession
They scored 72 points in 70 possessions = 1.033 points/possession
It was a 138-possession game.

If we just use FGA + (47.5% FTA) and thus count an offensive rebound as an additional possession and a turnover as a lost possession:
We scored 75 points in 57 possessions = 1.316 points/ possession
They scored 72 points in 70 possessions = 0.960 points/possession

Team Shooting Efficiency

(Points minus missed field goals and free throws)

We scored 75 points, missed 25 field goals and missed 4 free throws = net +46
They scored 72 points, missed 44 field goals and missed 2 free throws = net +26

(Points scored divided by potential points scored if we’d made every shot)

We scored 75 on 21 two point attempts, 31 three point attempts and 11 free throw attempts = 75 of a possible 146 points = 51.4% of possible points scored.
They scored 72 on 44 two point attempts, 26 three point attempts and 11 free throw attempts = 72 of a possible 177 points = 40.6% of possible points scored.


Fouls

(Most fouls are called on two point shot attempts.)
We attempted 21 two point shots and were fouled 15 times = 1.40
They attempted 44 two point shots and were fouled 14 times = 3.14
At this rate, if we’d taken 44 two point shots, we’d have been fouled 31 times.


Comments

I’ll repeat a couple of comments from the last game, with modifications:

- There were a lot of stats in this that suggested a West Virginia victory. Fortunately we shot the lights out and they didn’t matter. But they might matter in the next game so this team still has a lot of work to do. As fun as yesterday’s game was to watch, it wasn’t nearly our peak.

- The measure of our depth is that one of the two players who still lead this team in total net points and NP/40, Alan Griffin, had a total of 0 net points in yesterday’s game and yet we beat a 3-seed. He’s now gotten 2NP in 38 minutes in his last three games. If those he can return to form, all things are possible.

- Our leading rebounder in this tournament: Joe Girard, the shortest guy in our rotation. Joe has obviously studied where long rebounds tend to bounce and he gets there first. And his charge into the paint to grab on miss from the big guys, dribble past them and set up Buddy on the other end would have bene the play of the tournament- except Buddy kissed that one.

- We got out-scored in unsettled situations and it was much worse than against SDS: 8-35. We had only 4 offensive rebounds. We averaged a point for each one of them, as a team should. But we only got 4 points out of 14 takeovers. (Someone in the chat room noted that many of their turnovers were passes that went out of bounds, allowing the Mountaineers to set up their defense.) They had 19 offensive rebounds and 15 take-overs and got just over a point for each one. Wea re now 27-19 in turnovers in this tournament, an area where we hope to make up for a rebounding deficit, which is 63-74. We have been outscored 18-52 in these situations and yet somehow still won. Again, a big gap in shooting percent ages saved us. But how long can we expect to do that?

- That big gap was mostly in three pointers vs. SDS, (56% to 27.5%). Against West Virginia we played incredible interior defense, holding them to 34% on two-point shots while hitting 62% of our own. Will we do as well against Houston?

- Our combined shooting percent ages were +767 points over them. The only more one-sided shooting performance for SU was that first game against Boston College: +864. Nothing else was close.

- If every shot had gone in, we’d have lost by 31 points. But we scored 51% of our potential points. WVa scored 41% of theirs.

- Our exceptional three point shooting, (29/58, 50%), has opened up the inside for us and we’ve hit 24 of 41 two point shots, (58.5%), also exceptional, especially for a team that lacks a post-up scorer.

- We’ve been drilling our free throws all season. In this game we were 7/11, 63.6%. It may seem a small number but it sure wasn’t small when Joe and Buddy both missed in the final minute, Joe on the front end of a one and one. And Quincy Guerrier, who was above 70% all season, is now down to 67.7%

- I remember being amazed that our own Jimmy Lee was the leading, (total), scorer in the 1975 NCAA tournament. I’m getting that vibe with Buddy Boeheim, although his chances of that depend how far the team can go.

- Through my orange-colored glasses it seemed that West Virginia was getting away with a lot of physical defense that we weren’t but the comparison of two point attempts vs. times drawing the foul suggests that we were getting the break from the refs.