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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.
CJ Fair +26NP in 33M season: +392NP in 874M per 40M: +17.9NP
Michael Carter-Williams +26NP in 36M season: +409NP in 888M per 40M: +18.4NP
James Southerland +24NP in 26M season: +256NP in 494M per 40M: +20.7NP
Brandon Triche +12NP in 27M season: +297NP in 838M per 40M: +14.2NP
Jerami Grant +5NP in 21M season: +119NP in 442M per 40M: +10.8NP
Baye Moussa Keita +1NP in 19M season: +115NP in 391M per 40M: +11.8NP
Rakeem Christmas 0NP in 16M season: +215NP in 583M per 40M: +14.8NP
Trevor Cooney -1NP in 15M season: +56NP in 327M per 40M: +6.9NP
DaJuan Coleman Did not play season: +82NP in 279M per 40M: +11.8NP
Comment: This was really the first time all year our four main offensive guys all played well in the same game. They obscured what is still the team’s biggest problem: at best we are going 4 on 5 when we have the ball.
CJ Fair has led in “net points” 9 times, Michael Carter-Williams 8 times, Brandon Triche 6 times, James Southerland 3 times, Jerami Grant and Trevor Cooney once, (including ties).
Shooting Breakdown:
SU was 25/43, (.581) from inside the arc, 5/10 from outside, (.500) and 19/25 from the line (.760). Providence was 20/48 (.417) from inside the arc, 3/18, (.167) from outside, and 10/14, (.714) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 60 points and they score 94 points. If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 10-16, not 22-4.
For the season we are .504/.327/.684 and our opponents are .423/.289/.679. 18 of our 30 baskets were assisted, (60%), vs. 11 of Providence‘s 23, (48%).
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: 53 FGA minus 8 offensive rebounds plus 15 turnovers plus 47.5% of 25 free throws = 71.875 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 72 possessions in which we scored 84 points or 1.167 points per possession. We are 1.097 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Providence: 66-16+14 plus 47.5% of 14 = 70.65 possessions. Let’s call that 71 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 59 points or 0.835 points per possession. The opposition is 0.882 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 84 points, 46 in the paint and 19 from the foul line. Thus we had 19 POP, or 23% of our points. Providence had 13 POP, or 22%. We averaged 28 POP last year, 33% of our points. So far this year we are averaging 23 POP, 31% of our scoring. Our opponents have averaged 23.5 POP, but that’s been 39% of their scoring.
The “Offensive Dude of the Game”, (points + assists) was Michael Carter-Williams with 15 points and 12 assists for a total of 27. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (12), 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 12-12, 31-4, 20-22, 21-21.
For the year, the average score per quarter is 17-14, 19-12, 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 24 times in 104 quarters this year, and lost 25.
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.
Michael Carter-Williams sat us down in the first half, CJ Fair in the second half. CJ Fair has “sat us down” 14 times, Rakeem Christmas 10 times, Michael Carter-Williams 9 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 8 offensive and 31 defensive rebounds. Providence had 16 offensive and 19 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 30% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 34% 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 26 opponents by this measure.
Providence had 14 turnovers, of which 8 were Syracuse steals, (57%). Syracuse had 15 turnovers of which 8 were Providence steals, (53%). We had 53 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Providence had 50. We have won this battle 19 times in 26 games, with two games even. We’ve averaged 9 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”.
Michael Carter-Williams played 36 minutes in this game. Michael has led in minutes played 11 times, CJ Fair and Brandon Triche 9 times and Jerami Grant twice, (this includes ties).
CJ Fair +26NP in 33M season: +392NP in 874M per 40M: +17.9NP
Michael Carter-Williams +26NP in 36M season: +409NP in 888M per 40M: +18.4NP
James Southerland +24NP in 26M season: +256NP in 494M per 40M: +20.7NP
Brandon Triche +12NP in 27M season: +297NP in 838M per 40M: +14.2NP
Jerami Grant +5NP in 21M season: +119NP in 442M per 40M: +10.8NP
Baye Moussa Keita +1NP in 19M season: +115NP in 391M per 40M: +11.8NP
Rakeem Christmas 0NP in 16M season: +215NP in 583M per 40M: +14.8NP
Trevor Cooney -1NP in 15M season: +56NP in 327M per 40M: +6.9NP
DaJuan Coleman Did not play season: +82NP in 279M per 40M: +11.8NP
Comment: This was really the first time all year our four main offensive guys all played well in the same game. They obscured what is still the team’s biggest problem: at best we are going 4 on 5 when we have the ball.
CJ Fair has led in “net points” 9 times, Michael Carter-Williams 8 times, Brandon Triche 6 times, James Southerland 3 times, Jerami Grant and Trevor Cooney once, (including ties).
Shooting Breakdown:
SU was 25/43, (.581) from inside the arc, 5/10 from outside, (.500) and 19/25 from the line (.760). Providence was 20/48 (.417) from inside the arc, 3/18, (.167) from outside, and 10/14, (.714) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 60 points and they score 94 points. If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 10-16, not 22-4.
For the season we are .504/.327/.684 and our opponents are .423/.289/.679. 18 of our 30 baskets were assisted, (60%), vs. 11 of Providence‘s 23, (48%).
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: 53 FGA minus 8 offensive rebounds plus 15 turnovers plus 47.5% of 25 free throws = 71.875 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 72 possessions in which we scored 84 points or 1.167 points per possession. We are 1.097 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Providence: 66-16+14 plus 47.5% of 14 = 70.65 possessions. Let’s call that 71 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 59 points or 0.835 points per possession. The opposition is 0.882 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 84 points, 46 in the paint and 19 from the foul line. Thus we had 19 POP, or 23% of our points. Providence had 13 POP, or 22%. We averaged 28 POP last year, 33% of our points. So far this year we are averaging 23 POP, 31% of our scoring. Our opponents have averaged 23.5 POP, but that’s been 39% of their scoring.
The “Offensive Dude of the Game”, (points + assists) was Michael Carter-Williams with 15 points and 12 assists for a total of 27. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (12), 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 12-12, 31-4, 20-22, 21-21.
For the year, the average score per quarter is 17-14, 19-12, 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 24 times in 104 quarters this year, and lost 25.
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.
Michael Carter-Williams sat us down in the first half, CJ Fair in the second half. CJ Fair has “sat us down” 14 times, Rakeem Christmas 10 times, Michael Carter-Williams 9 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 8 offensive and 31 defensive rebounds. Providence had 16 offensive and 19 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 30% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 34% 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 26 opponents by this measure.
Providence had 14 turnovers, of which 8 were Syracuse steals, (57%). Syracuse had 15 turnovers of which 8 were Providence steals, (53%). We had 53 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Providence had 50. We have won this battle 19 times in 26 games, with two games even. We’ve averaged 9 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”.
Michael Carter-Williams played 36 minutes in this game. Michael has led in minutes played 11 times, CJ Fair and Brandon Triche 9 times and Jerami Grant twice, (this includes ties).