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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 +15NP in 37M season: +407NP in 911M per 40M: +17.9NP
Michael Carter-Williams +12NP in 39M season: +421NP in 927M per 40M: +18.2NP
James Southerland +10NP in 34M season: +266NP in 528M per 40M: +20.2NP
Rakeem Christmas +5NP in 29M season: +220NP in 612M per 40M: +14.4NP
Baye Moussa Keita +1NP in 12M season: +116NP in 403M per 40M: +11.5NP
Jerami Grant -2NP in 29M season: +117NP in 471M per 40M: +9.9NP
Trevor Cooney -3NP in 12M season: +53NP in 339M per 40M: +6.3NP
Brandon Triche -4NP in 37M season: +293NP in 875M per 40M: +13.4NP
DaJuan Coleman Did not play season: +82NP in 279M per 40M: +11.8NP
Comment: When 1-2 guys play well, we likely lose. When 3-4 guys play well, we probably win. No one on the team played up to their proven capabilities in this game. CJ Fair came the closest, (he’d have had 16 NP in 40 minutes), but Georgetown managed to take him out of the game in the second half. We couldn’t do the same thing to Otto Porter who had 38NP.
CJ Fair has led in “net points” 10 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 13/30, (.433) from inside the arc, 4/20 from outside, (.200) and 8/12 from the line (.667). Georgetown was 12/29 (.414) from inside the arc, 7/25, (.280) from outside, and 12/14, (.857) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 52 points and they score 50 points. If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 11-16, not 22-5.
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: 50 FGA minus 13 offensive rebounds plus 16 turnovers plus 47.5% of 12 free throws = 58.7 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 59 possessions in which we scored 46 points or 0.780 points per possession. We are 1.086 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Georgetown: 54-12+12 plus 47.5% of 14 = 60.65 possessions. Let’s call that 60 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 57 points or 0.950 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 46 points, 16 in the paint and 8 from the foul line. Thus we had 22 POP, or 48% of our points. Providence had 27 POP, or 47%. (Both teams had trouble scoring inside.) We averaged 28 POP last year, 33% of our points. So far this year we are averaging 23 POP, 32% of our scoring. We’ve averaged 26 POP at home and 21 on the road. Our opponents have averaged 24 POP, but that’s been 40% of their scoring.
The “Offensive Dude of the Game”, (points + assists) was shared by CJ Fair and James Southerland with 13 points and 1 assist for a total of 14. (Otto Porter had 35.) It was not the lowest toal of the season: CJ led with 13 vs. Alcorn State. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (12), CJ Fair (7) Brandon Triche (6) and James Southerland (4).
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 12-7, 11-14, 8-18, 15-18
For the year, the average score per quarter is 17-14, 18-12, 19-15, 19-17. Last year the averages per quarter were: 19-13, 19-12, 21-14, 22-16. We’ve missed the 15 point mark 27 times in 108 quarters this year, and lost 28.
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.
Brandon Triche sat us down in the first half, James Southerland in the second half. CJ Fair has “sat us down” 14 times, Rakeem Christmas 10 times, Michael Carter-Williams 9 times, Brandon Triche 8 times, DaJuan Coleman 6 times, James Southerland, 3, Jerami Grant, 2 times and Baye Moussa Keita, and Trevor Cooney 1 time each.
Possession:
Syracuse had 13 offensive and 23 defensive rebounds. Georgetown had 12 offensive and 22 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 37% 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 17 of 27 opponents by this measure.
Georgetown had 12 turnovers, of which 7 were Syracuse steals, (58%). Syracuse had 16 turnovers of which 9 were Georgetown steals, (56%). We had 48 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Georgetown had 50. We have won this battle 18 times in 27 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 39 minutes in this game. Michael has led in minutes played 12 times, CJ Fair and Brandon Triche 9 times and Jerami Grant twice, (this includes ties).
CJ Fair +15NP in 37M season: +407NP in 911M per 40M: +17.9NP
Michael Carter-Williams +12NP in 39M season: +421NP in 927M per 40M: +18.2NP
James Southerland +10NP in 34M season: +266NP in 528M per 40M: +20.2NP
Rakeem Christmas +5NP in 29M season: +220NP in 612M per 40M: +14.4NP
Baye Moussa Keita +1NP in 12M season: +116NP in 403M per 40M: +11.5NP
Jerami Grant -2NP in 29M season: +117NP in 471M per 40M: +9.9NP
Trevor Cooney -3NP in 12M season: +53NP in 339M per 40M: +6.3NP
Brandon Triche -4NP in 37M season: +293NP in 875M per 40M: +13.4NP
DaJuan Coleman Did not play season: +82NP in 279M per 40M: +11.8NP
Comment: When 1-2 guys play well, we likely lose. When 3-4 guys play well, we probably win. No one on the team played up to their proven capabilities in this game. CJ Fair came the closest, (he’d have had 16 NP in 40 minutes), but Georgetown managed to take him out of the game in the second half. We couldn’t do the same thing to Otto Porter who had 38NP.
CJ Fair has led in “net points” 10 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 13/30, (.433) from inside the arc, 4/20 from outside, (.200) and 8/12 from the line (.667). Georgetown was 12/29 (.414) from inside the arc, 7/25, (.280) from outside, and 12/14, (.857) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 52 points and they score 50 points. If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 11-16, not 22-5.
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: 50 FGA minus 13 offensive rebounds plus 16 turnovers plus 47.5% of 12 free throws = 58.7 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 59 possessions in which we scored 46 points or 0.780 points per possession. We are 1.086 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Georgetown: 54-12+12 plus 47.5% of 14 = 60.65 possessions. Let’s call that 60 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 57 points or 0.950 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 46 points, 16 in the paint and 8 from the foul line. Thus we had 22 POP, or 48% of our points. Providence had 27 POP, or 47%. (Both teams had trouble scoring inside.) We averaged 28 POP last year, 33% of our points. So far this year we are averaging 23 POP, 32% of our scoring. We’ve averaged 26 POP at home and 21 on the road. Our opponents have averaged 24 POP, but that’s been 40% of their scoring.
The “Offensive Dude of the Game”, (points + assists) was shared by CJ Fair and James Southerland with 13 points and 1 assist for a total of 14. (Otto Porter had 35.) It was not the lowest toal of the season: CJ led with 13 vs. Alcorn State. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (12), CJ Fair (7) Brandon Triche (6) and James Southerland (4).
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 12-7, 11-14, 8-18, 15-18
For the year, the average score per quarter is 17-14, 18-12, 19-15, 19-17. Last year the averages per quarter were: 19-13, 19-12, 21-14, 22-16. We’ve missed the 15 point mark 27 times in 108 quarters this year, and lost 28.
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.
Brandon Triche sat us down in the first half, James Southerland in the second half. CJ Fair has “sat us down” 14 times, Rakeem Christmas 10 times, Michael Carter-Williams 9 times, Brandon Triche 8 times, DaJuan Coleman 6 times, James Southerland, 3, Jerami Grant, 2 times and Baye Moussa Keita, and Trevor Cooney 1 time each.
Possession:
Syracuse had 13 offensive and 23 defensive rebounds. Georgetown had 12 offensive and 22 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 37% 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 17 of 27 opponents by this measure.
Georgetown had 12 turnovers, of which 7 were Syracuse steals, (58%). Syracuse had 16 turnovers of which 9 were Georgetown steals, (56%). We had 48 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Georgetown had 50. We have won this battle 18 times in 27 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 39 minutes in this game. Michael has led in minutes played 12 times, CJ Fair and Brandon Triche 9 times and Jerami Grant twice, (this includes ties).