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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 136997, member: 289"] 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 +25NP in 29M season: +149NP in 363M per 40M: +16.4NP Fab Melo +24NP in 22M season: +150NP in 343M per 40M: +17.5NP Kris Joseph +19NP in 31M season: +201NP in 433M per 40M: +18.6NP Dion Waiters +10NP in 20M season: +171NP in 319M per 40M: +21.4NP James Southerland +8NP in 17M season: +155NP in 245M per 40M: +25.3NP Brandon Triche +8NP in 20M season: +132NP in 323M per 40M: +16.3NP Scoop Jardine +6NP in 22M season: +154NP in 320M per 40M: +19.3NP Michael Carter-Williams +2NP in 17M season: +67NP in 193M per 40M: +13.9NP Rakeem Christmas -4NP in 10M season: +54NP in 189M per 40M: +11.4NP Baye Moussa Keita -1NP in 6M season: +60NP in 172M per 40M: +14.0NP Mookie Jones 0NP in 0M season: -1NP in 30M per 40M: -1.3NP Comment: CJ Fair scored 16 points and pulled down 5 rebounds with 2 steals, an assist and a block in 29 minutes. That’s impressive but more impressive is that he was 6 for 6 from the field, 4 for 4 from the line and had no turnovers and no fouls. That’s right, he did noting bad, (at least that turned up in the box score) in 29 minutes while producing 25 “positives”. I’ve seen games where players wound up with more net points but not that many with no negatives at all. He pitched a “perfect game”. Shooting Breakdown: SU was[B] [/B]31/46 from inside the arc, (.674), 3/12 from outside, (.250) and 16/23 from the line (.696). DePaulwas 22/44 (.500), 3/18, (.167). and 15/20, (.750) 15 of our 34 baskets were assisted, (65%), vs. 16 of DePaul’s 25, (64%). Rebounding: Syracuse had 10 offensive and 25 defensive rebounds. DePaul had 14 offensive and 18 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 36% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 36% of the time. DePaul had 18 turnovers, of which 10 were Syracuse steals, (56%). Syracuse had 16 turnovers of which 7 were DePau[U]l[/U] steals, (44%). We had 53 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). They had 48. 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: 58 FGA minus 10 offensive rebounds plus 16 turnovers plus 47.5% of 23 free throws = 74.925 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 75 possessions in which we scored 87 points or 1.160 points per possession. For the season it’s 1.187. DePaul: 62-14+18 plus 47.5% of 20 = 75.5 possessions. Let’s call that 76 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 68 points or 0.895 points per possession. For the season it’s 0.865. Dry stretches were a problem last year- we’d go 8-10 minutes with the offense not functioning. 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 22-15, 23-11, 16-17, 26-25. We’ve had 6 sub 15 point quarters this year and lost 11 quarters (of 60). 15-0 and 16 to go LET’S GO ORANGE!!! [/QUOTE]

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