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Net Points etc. 2013
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 +29NP in 40M season: +285NP in 811M per 40M: +14.1NP
Michael Carter-Williams +16NP in 40M season: +383NP in 852M per 40M: +18.0NP
CJ Fair +15NP in 38M season: +366NP in 841M per 40M: +17.4NP
James Southerland +6NP in 35M season: +232NP in 468M per 40M: +19.8NP
Rakeem Christmas +1NP in 16M season: +215NP in 567M per 40M: +15.2NP
Baye Moussa Keita -1NP in 24M season: +114NP in 372M per 40M: +12.3NP
Jerami Grant -4NP in 7M season: +114NP in 421M per 40M: +10.8NP
Trevor Cooney Did not play season: +57NP in 312M per 40M: +7.3NP
DaJuan Coleman Did not play season: +82NP in 279M per 40M: +11.8NP
Comment: Brandon Triche went from a -5 game to a +29 game and that was the primary difference between the Connecticut and Seton Hall games, which were otherwise statistically similar. Our centers have scored 1 basket in the last 2 games. That’s one more than a dead man.
CJ Fair has led in “net points” 8 times, Michael Carter-Williams 7 times, Brandon Triche 6 times, James Southerland 3 times, Jerami Grant and Trevor Cooney once, (including ties).
Shooting Breakdown:
SU was 16/42, (.381) from inside the arc, 8/20 from outside, (.400) and 20/29 from the line (.690). Seton Hall was 9/18 (.500) from inside the arc, 10/26, (.385) from outside, and 17/29, (.586) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 83 points and they score 47 points. If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 10-15, not 21-4.
For the season we are .501/.323/.680 and our opponents are .424/.293/.678. 13 of our 24 baskets were assisted, (54%), vs. 14 of Seton Hall‘s 19, (74%).
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: 62 FGA minus 20 offensive rebounds plus 4 turnovers plus 47.5% of 29 free throws = 59.775 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 59 possessions in which we scored 76 points or 1.288 points per possession. We are 1.094 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Seton Hall: 44-9+9 plus 47.5% of 29 = 57.775 possessions. Let’s call that 58 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 65 points or 1.121 points per possession. The opposition is 0.884 on the season. Last season it was 0.830.
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 76 points, 24 in the paint and 20 from the foul line. Thus we had 32 POP, or 42% of our points. Seton Hall had 34 POP, or 52%. We averaged 28 POP last year, 33% of our points. So far this year we are averaging 24 POP, 32% of our scoring. Our opponents have also averaged 24 POP, but that’s been 40% of their scoring.
The “Offensive Dude of the Game”, (points + assists) was Brandon Triche with 29 points and 5 assists for a total of 34, (second only to James Southerland’s 35 vs. Arkansas). So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (11), CJ Fair and Brandon Triche (6) and James Southerland (3).
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 13-12, 11-17, 18-13, 16-24.
For the year, the average score per quarter is 17-14, 18-12, 19-15, 20-17. Last year the averages per quarter were: 19-13, 19-12, 21-14, 22-16. We’ve missed the 15 point mark 23 times in 100 quarters this year, and lost 24.
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.
Appropriately, Brandon Triche sat us down in both halves. CJ Fair has “sat us down” 13 times, Rakeem Christmas 10 times, Michael Carter-Williams 8 times, Brandon Triche 7 times, DaJuan Coleman 6 times, Jerami Grant, James Southerland 2 times and Baye Moussa Keita, and Trevor Cooney 1 time each.
Possession:
Syracuse had 20 offensive and 22 defensive rebounds. Seton Hall had 9 offensive and 22 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 47% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 29% of the time. For the year we have rebounded 40% of our misses and the opposition have rebounded 33% of theirs. We’ve out-rebounded 16 of 25 opponents by this measure.
Seton Hall had 11 turnovers, of which 7 were Syracuse steals, (64%). Syracuse only had 4 turnovers of which 3 were Seton Hall steals, (75%). We had one unforced turnover in the entire game. We had 53 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Seton Hall had 36. We have won this battle 18 times in 25 games, with two games even. We’ve averaged 10 more MP’s per game.
“My Man”
Casey Stengel was once asked the secret of his success with the Yankees. He said “I never play a game without my man.” He didn’t explain but the reporter noticed that Yogi Berra was always in the line up somewhere, even when he wasn’t catching. Casey didn’t want to play a game without him. I decided to keep track of which players played the most minutes in each game to see which player, (or players) were Jim Boeheim’s “man”.
Brandon Triche and CJ Fair played 40 minutes in this game. Michael Carter-Williams has led in minutes played 10 times, CJ Fair and Brandon Triche 9 times and Jerami Grant twice, (this includes ties).
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 +29NP in 40M season: +285NP in 811M per 40M: +14.1NP
Michael Carter-Williams +16NP in 40M season: +383NP in 852M per 40M: +18.0NP
CJ Fair +15NP in 38M season: +366NP in 841M per 40M: +17.4NP
James Southerland +6NP in 35M season: +232NP in 468M per 40M: +19.8NP
Rakeem Christmas +1NP in 16M season: +215NP in 567M per 40M: +15.2NP
Baye Moussa Keita -1NP in 24M season: +114NP in 372M per 40M: +12.3NP
Jerami Grant -4NP in 7M season: +114NP in 421M per 40M: +10.8NP
Trevor Cooney Did not play season: +57NP in 312M per 40M: +7.3NP
DaJuan Coleman Did not play season: +82NP in 279M per 40M: +11.8NP
Comment: Brandon Triche went from a -5 game to a +29 game and that was the primary difference between the Connecticut and Seton Hall games, which were otherwise statistically similar. Our centers have scored 1 basket in the last 2 games. That’s one more than a dead man.
CJ Fair has led in “net points” 8 times, Michael Carter-Williams 7 times, Brandon Triche 6 times, James Southerland 3 times, Jerami Grant and Trevor Cooney once, (including ties).
Shooting Breakdown:
SU was 16/42, (.381) from inside the arc, 8/20 from outside, (.400) and 20/29 from the line (.690). Seton Hall was 9/18 (.500) from inside the arc, 10/26, (.385) from outside, and 17/29, (.586) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 83 points and they score 47 points. If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 10-15, not 21-4.
For the season we are .501/.323/.680 and our opponents are .424/.293/.678. 13 of our 24 baskets were assisted, (54%), vs. 14 of Seton Hall‘s 19, (74%).
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: 62 FGA minus 20 offensive rebounds plus 4 turnovers plus 47.5% of 29 free throws = 59.775 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 59 possessions in which we scored 76 points or 1.288 points per possession. We are 1.094 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Seton Hall: 44-9+9 plus 47.5% of 29 = 57.775 possessions. Let’s call that 58 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 65 points or 1.121 points per possession. The opposition is 0.884 on the season. Last season it was 0.830.
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 76 points, 24 in the paint and 20 from the foul line. Thus we had 32 POP, or 42% of our points. Seton Hall had 34 POP, or 52%. We averaged 28 POP last year, 33% of our points. So far this year we are averaging 24 POP, 32% of our scoring. Our opponents have also averaged 24 POP, but that’s been 40% of their scoring.
The “Offensive Dude of the Game”, (points + assists) was Brandon Triche with 29 points and 5 assists for a total of 34, (second only to James Southerland’s 35 vs. Arkansas). So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (11), CJ Fair and Brandon Triche (6) and James Southerland (3).
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 13-12, 11-17, 18-13, 16-24.
For the year, the average score per quarter is 17-14, 18-12, 19-15, 20-17. Last year the averages per quarter were: 19-13, 19-12, 21-14, 22-16. We’ve missed the 15 point mark 23 times in 100 quarters this year, and lost 24.
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.
Appropriately, Brandon Triche sat us down in both halves. CJ Fair has “sat us down” 13 times, Rakeem Christmas 10 times, Michael Carter-Williams 8 times, Brandon Triche 7 times, DaJuan Coleman 6 times, Jerami Grant, James Southerland 2 times and Baye Moussa Keita, and Trevor Cooney 1 time each.
Possession:
Syracuse had 20 offensive and 22 defensive rebounds. Seton Hall had 9 offensive and 22 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 47% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 29% of the time. For the year we have rebounded 40% of our misses and the opposition have rebounded 33% of theirs. We’ve out-rebounded 16 of 25 opponents by this measure.
Seton Hall had 11 turnovers, of which 7 were Syracuse steals, (64%). Syracuse only had 4 turnovers of which 3 were Seton Hall steals, (75%). We had one unforced turnover in the entire game. We had 53 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Seton Hall had 36. We have won this battle 18 times in 25 games, with two games even. We’ve averaged 10 more MP’s per game.
“My Man”
Casey Stengel was once asked the secret of his success with the Yankees. He said “I never play a game without my man.” He didn’t explain but the reporter noticed that Yogi Berra was always in the line up somewhere, even when he wasn’t catching. Casey didn’t want to play a game without him. I decided to keep track of which players played the most minutes in each game to see which player, (or players) were Jim Boeheim’s “man”.
Brandon Triche and CJ Fair played 40 minutes in this game. Michael Carter-Williams has led in minutes played 10 times, CJ Fair and Brandon Triche 9 times and Jerami Grant twice, (this includes ties).
