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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.
Fab Melo +20NP in 32M season: +273NP in 664M per 40M: +16.4NP
Kris Joseph +19NP in 34M season: +387NP in 936M per 40M: +16.5NP
CJ Fair +13NP in 29M season: +328NP in 818M per 40M: +16.0NP
Scoop Jardine +8NP in 31M season: +306NP in 737M per 40M: +16.6NP
Dion Waiters +6NP in 31M season: +303NP in 712M per 40M: +17.0NP
Michael Carter-Williams +7NP in 7M season: +104NP in 257M per 40M: +16.2NP
James Southerland +4NP in 15M season: +198NP in 452M per 40M: +17.5NP
Brandon Triche +3NP in 18M season: +241NP in 660M per 40M: +14.6NP
Baye Moussa Keita -3NP in 6M season: +95NP in 354M per 40M: +10.7NP
Rakeem Christmas 0NP in 4M season: +92NP in 327M per 40M: +11.3NP
Comment: I wonder if, by the end of the season, all our top guys will have the same NP per 40 average? The gap between them gets narrower and narrower, although Brandon Triche is fading and Baye Moussa Keita may ruin the achievement of having all 10 guys average 10NP/40, which would be a record. The old record is 9 such players in 1994-95 and 1999-2000.
Offensive Dude of the Game: Kris Joseph won both with gross numbers and a 40 minute average, (24.7). He’s tied with Waiters with 9 gross ODOGs and has 3 40 minute average ODOGs, (Waiters leads with 9 of those).
Shooting Breakdown: SU was 23/44 (..523) from inside the arc, 5/20 from outside, (.250) and 10/14 from the line (.714). Connecticut was 21/47 (.447), 6/20, (.300), and 9/13, (.692) 14 of our 28 baskets were assisted, (50%), vs. 17 of Connecticut’s 27, (63%).
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.
Whoever does the box scores on the SU Athletics website was just as sleepy as I was last night. He did a one-page box score., It’s usually 12 pages, including first half and second half breakdowns, a play-by-play, etc. It also usually includes “points in the paint”, fast break points, points off turnovers, etc. etc. Not today. So I went over ESPN’s play-by-play and just counted the jump shots, (which is what I’m trying to measure anyway). We made 10 jump shots in the first half: 6 two pointers and 4 three pointers. In the second half we had one two pointer and one three pointer, (just like we had for the whole game vs. Louisville). That‘s a total of 29 points from jump shots, our “POP” for this game. We had 24 in the first half and 5 in the second half.
Rebounding: Syracuse had 15 offensive and 26 defensive rebounds. Connecticut had 16 offensive and 21 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 42% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 38% of the time. Connecticut had 10 turnovers, of which 8 were Syracuse steals, (80%). Syracuse had 10 turnovers of which 3 were Connecticut steals, (30%). We had 51 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). They had 47.
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: 64 FGA minus 15 offensive rebounds plus 10 turnovers plus 47.5% of 14 free throws = 65.65 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 66 possessions in which we scored 71 points or 1.076 points per possession. For the season it’s 1.141.
Connecticut: 67-16+10 plus 47.5% of 13 = 67.175 possessions. Let’s call that 67 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 69 points or 1.030 points per possession. For the season it’s 0.910.
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 17-10, 26-19, 15-20, 13-20.
We’ve had 22 sub 15 point quarters this year and lost 31 quarters (of 120). Here are the averages per quarter: 16-14, 20-12, 18-17, 22-18.5.
negatives: missed field goals, miss free throws, turnovers and fouls. The result is “Net Points.”
(NP). M = minutes.
Fab Melo +20NP in 32M season: +273NP in 664M per 40M: +16.4NP
Kris Joseph +19NP in 34M season: +387NP in 936M per 40M: +16.5NP
CJ Fair +13NP in 29M season: +328NP in 818M per 40M: +16.0NP
Scoop Jardine +8NP in 31M season: +306NP in 737M per 40M: +16.6NP
Dion Waiters +6NP in 31M season: +303NP in 712M per 40M: +17.0NP
Michael Carter-Williams +7NP in 7M season: +104NP in 257M per 40M: +16.2NP
James Southerland +4NP in 15M season: +198NP in 452M per 40M: +17.5NP
Brandon Triche +3NP in 18M season: +241NP in 660M per 40M: +14.6NP
Baye Moussa Keita -3NP in 6M season: +95NP in 354M per 40M: +10.7NP
Rakeem Christmas 0NP in 4M season: +92NP in 327M per 40M: +11.3NP
Comment: I wonder if, by the end of the season, all our top guys will have the same NP per 40 average? The gap between them gets narrower and narrower, although Brandon Triche is fading and Baye Moussa Keita may ruin the achievement of having all 10 guys average 10NP/40, which would be a record. The old record is 9 such players in 1994-95 and 1999-2000.
Offensive Dude of the Game: Kris Joseph won both with gross numbers and a 40 minute average, (24.7). He’s tied with Waiters with 9 gross ODOGs and has 3 40 minute average ODOGs, (Waiters leads with 9 of those).
Shooting Breakdown: SU was 23/44 (..523) from inside the arc, 5/20 from outside, (.250) and 10/14 from the line (.714). Connecticut was 21/47 (.447), 6/20, (.300), and 9/13, (.692) 14 of our 28 baskets were assisted, (50%), vs. 17 of Connecticut’s 27, (63%).
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.
Whoever does the box scores on the SU Athletics website was just as sleepy as I was last night. He did a one-page box score., It’s usually 12 pages, including first half and second half breakdowns, a play-by-play, etc. It also usually includes “points in the paint”, fast break points, points off turnovers, etc. etc. Not today. So I went over ESPN’s play-by-play and just counted the jump shots, (which is what I’m trying to measure anyway). We made 10 jump shots in the first half: 6 two pointers and 4 three pointers. In the second half we had one two pointer and one three pointer, (just like we had for the whole game vs. Louisville). That‘s a total of 29 points from jump shots, our “POP” for this game. We had 24 in the first half and 5 in the second half.
Rebounding: Syracuse had 15 offensive and 26 defensive rebounds. Connecticut had 16 offensive and 21 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 42% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 38% of the time. Connecticut had 10 turnovers, of which 8 were Syracuse steals, (80%). Syracuse had 10 turnovers of which 3 were Connecticut steals, (30%). We had 51 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). They had 47.
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: 64 FGA minus 15 offensive rebounds plus 10 turnovers plus 47.5% of 14 free throws = 65.65 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 66 possessions in which we scored 71 points or 1.076 points per possession. For the season it’s 1.141.
Connecticut: 67-16+10 plus 47.5% of 13 = 67.175 possessions. Let’s call that 67 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 69 points or 1.030 points per possession. For the season it’s 0.910.
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 17-10, 26-19, 15-20, 13-20.
We’ve had 22 sub 15 point quarters this year and lost 31 quarters (of 120). Here are the averages per quarter: 16-14, 20-12, 18-17, 22-18.5.