Net Points, etc.

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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.



Brandon Triche +16NP in 41M season: +234NP in 627M per 40M: +14.9NP

Rakeem Christmas +15NP in 40M season: +190NP in 442M per 40M: +17.2NP

Jerami Grant +11NP in 27M season: +90NP in 298M per 40M: +12.1NP

CJ Fair +9NP in 45M season: +280NP in 649M per 40M: +17.3NP

Trevor Cooney -1NP in 12M season: +59NP in 266M per 40M: +8.9NP

Michael Carter-Williams -2NP in 44M season: +307NP in 683M per 40M: +18.0NP

Baye Moussa Keita -2NP in 9M season: +102NP in 288M per 40M: +14.2NP

DaJuan Coleman -3NP in 7M season: +82NP in 279M per 40M: +11.8NP

James Southerland Did not play season: +207NP in 382M per 40M: +21.7NP



Comment: Fair led the way in the three games, with Carter-Williams just behind him despite the problems vs. Louisville. But Triche was actually the most productive per minute with 36NP in 81 minutes. Jerami Grant’s 27NP in these three games represented 34% of his season’s total.



The following players have lead, (or tied for the lead), the team in “net points” in games this year: Michael Carter-Williams 7, CJ Fair 6, Brandon Triche 4, James Southerland 2, Trevor Cooney 1



Shooting Breakdown:

Vs. Villanova, SU was 16/47, (.340) from inside the arc, 5/14 from outside, (.357) and 24/35 from the line (.686). Villanova was 15/30 (.500) from inside the arc, 9/27, (.333) from outside, and 18/30, (.600) from the line. 13 of our 21 baskets were assisted, (62%), vs. 17 of Villanova‘s 24, (71%).



For the season we are .505/.327/.665 and our opponents are .409/.285/.689.



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 71 points, 26 in the paint and 24 from the foul line. Thus we had 21 POP, or 30% of our points. Villanova had 33 POP, or 44%. We averaged 28 POP last year, 33% of our points. So far this year we are again averaging 24 POP, 31% of our scoring. Our opponents have averaged 23 POP, but that’s been 40% of their scoring.



The “Offensive Dude of the Game”, (points + assists) was Brandon Triche with 23 points and 4 assists for a total of 27. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (9), Brandon Triche, (5) CJ Fair (4) and James Southerland (3).



Possession:



Syracuse had 18 offensive and 23 defensive rebounds. Villanova had 18 offensive and 32 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 36% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 44% of the time. For the year we have rebounded 41% of our misses and the opposition have rebounded 32.5% of theirs. We’ve out-rebounded 13 of 20 opponents by this measure.



Villanova had 14 turnovers, of which 6 were Syracuse steals, (43%). Syracuse had 7 turnovers of which 5 were Villanova steals, (71%). We had 55 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Villanova had 57. We’ve won that battle 14 times in 20 games with two even. We are an average of +11 MP for the year.



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: 63 FGA minus 18 offensive rebounds plus 7 turnovers plus 47.5% of 35 free throws = 68.625 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 68 possessions in which we scored 71 points or 1.044 points per possession. We are 1.105 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.



Villanova: 57-18+14 plus 47.5% of 30 = 67.25 possessions. Let’s call that 67 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 75 points or 1.119 points per possession. The opposition is 0.862 on the season. Last season it was 0.830. (Our problems in this game were more on defense than offense, even if it appeared otherwise)



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 was: 9-20, 17-12, 21-14, 14-15, 10-14(ot) (We scored more points in a 5 minute overtime than we did in the first ten minutes of the game).



For the year, the average score per quarter is 18-14, 19-12, 20.5-15, 19-16. Last year the averages per quarter were: 19-13, 19-12, 21-14, 22-16. We’ve missed the 15 point mark 16 times in 80 quarters this year, and lost 18.



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.



CJ. Fair sat us down in the first half and Jerami Grant did it in the second half. CJ Fair has “sat us down” 10 times, Rakeem Christmas 8 times, Michael Carter-Williams 7 times, DaJuan Coleman 6 times, Brandon Triche 4 times, James Southerland 2 times and Baye Moussa Keita, Jerami Grant and Trevor Cooney 1 time each.