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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.
(I’ve just double-checked these numbers against the raw data on the SU athletic website so there may be some minor adjustments beyond adding in the Marquette game.)
CJ Fair +20NP in 40M season: +430NP in 951M per 40M: +18.1NP
Baye Moussa Keita +11NP in 22M season: +127NP in 425M per 40M: +12.0NP
James Southerland +9NP in 31M season: +286NP in 597M per 40M: +19.2NP
Michael Carter-Williams +6NP in 37M season: +426NP in 964M per 40M: +17.7NP
Trevor Cooney +4NP in 6M season: +57NP in 337M per 40M: +6.8NP
Brandon Triche +4NP in 37M season: +297NP in 930M per 40M: +12.8NP
Rakeem Christmas +2NP in 18M season: +217NP in 621M per 40M: +14.0NP
Jerami Grant 0NP in 9M season: +117NP in 459M per 40M: +10.2NP
DaJuan Coleman Did not play season: +82NP in 279M per 40M: +11.8NP
Comment: Offensively, (and that’s what most stats measure), this was actually a good comeback game from the Georgetown debacle. It was just ruined by a bad 6 minute stretch late in the second half. Gardner had 34NP for Marquette.
CJ Fair has led in “net points” 11 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 21/37, (.568) from inside the arc, 8/24 from outside, (.333) and 5/7 from the line (.714). Marquette was 15/26 (.577) from inside the arc, 5/21, (.238) from outside, and 29/35, (.829) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 66 points and they score 76 points. (This was one game in which the difference was not in the shooting percentages.) If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 11-17, not 22-6.
For the season we are .504/.322/.684 and our opponents are .427/.287/.694. 19 of our 29 baskets were assisted, (66%), vs. 16 of Marquette‘s 20, (80%).
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: 61 FGA minus 15 offensive rebounds plus 12 turnovers plus 47.5% of 7 free throws = 61.325 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 61 possessions in which we scored 71 points or 1.164 points per possession. We are 1.094 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Marquette: 47-15+12 plus 47.5% of 35 = 60.625 possessions. Let’s call that 61 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 74 points or 1.213 points per possession. The opposition is 0.889 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 71 points, 30 in the paint and 7 from the foul line. Thus we had 34 POP, or 48% of our points. Marquette had 21 POP, or 28%. We averaged 28 POP last year, 33% of our points. So far this year we are averaging 24 POP, 32% of our scoring. We’ve averaged 26 POP at home and 22 on the road. Our opponents have averaged 24 POP, but that’s been 39% of their scoring.
The “Offensive Dude of the Game”, (points + assists) was CJ Fair with 20 points and 1 assist for a total of 21. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (12), CJ Fair (8) 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 14-14, 18-15, 17-15, 22-30.
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 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.
Michael Carter-Williams sat us down in the first half, Rakeem Christmas in the second half. CJ Fair has “sat us down” 14 times, Rakeem Christmas 11 times, Michael Carter-Williams 10 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 15 offensive and 18 defensive rebounds Marquette had 15 offensive and 12 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 45% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 564% of the time. For the year we have rebounded 40% of our misses and the opposition have rebounded 34% of theirs. We’ve out-rebounded 17 of 28 opponents by this measure.
Marquette had 12 turnovers, of which 4 were Syracuse steals, (33%). Syracuse had 12 turnovers of which 9 were Marquette steals, (75%). We had 39 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Marquette had 45. We have won this battle 18 times in 28 games, with two games even. We’ve averaged 8.5 more MP’s per game.
The Centers
I think our tandem of centers should get a total of at least 20 points + rebounds + blocks per game. They are averaging 28 on the season but only 18 in Big East games. In the Marquette game Rakeem Christmas had 2 points, 3 rebounds and no blocks while Baye Moussa Keita had 7 points, 8 rebounds and 1 block, for a total of 21. Christmas has contributed the most 16 times, Keita 8 times and the injured DaJuan Coleman 5 times.
“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”.
CJ Fair led the team with 40 minutes played in this game. Michael Carter-Williams has led in minutes played 12 times, CJ Fair 10 times, Brandon Triche 9 times and Jerami Grant twice, (this includes ties).
(I’ve just double-checked these numbers against the raw data on the SU athletic website so there may be some minor adjustments beyond adding in the Marquette game.)
CJ Fair +20NP in 40M season: +430NP in 951M per 40M: +18.1NP
Baye Moussa Keita +11NP in 22M season: +127NP in 425M per 40M: +12.0NP
James Southerland +9NP in 31M season: +286NP in 597M per 40M: +19.2NP
Michael Carter-Williams +6NP in 37M season: +426NP in 964M per 40M: +17.7NP
Trevor Cooney +4NP in 6M season: +57NP in 337M per 40M: +6.8NP
Brandon Triche +4NP in 37M season: +297NP in 930M per 40M: +12.8NP
Rakeem Christmas +2NP in 18M season: +217NP in 621M per 40M: +14.0NP
Jerami Grant 0NP in 9M season: +117NP in 459M per 40M: +10.2NP
DaJuan Coleman Did not play season: +82NP in 279M per 40M: +11.8NP
Comment: Offensively, (and that’s what most stats measure), this was actually a good comeback game from the Georgetown debacle. It was just ruined by a bad 6 minute stretch late in the second half. Gardner had 34NP for Marquette.
CJ Fair has led in “net points” 11 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 21/37, (.568) from inside the arc, 8/24 from outside, (.333) and 5/7 from the line (.714). Marquette was 15/26 (.577) from inside the arc, 5/21, (.238) from outside, and 29/35, (.829) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 66 points and they score 76 points. (This was one game in which the difference was not in the shooting percentages.) If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 11-17, not 22-6.
For the season we are .504/.322/.684 and our opponents are .427/.287/.694. 19 of our 29 baskets were assisted, (66%), vs. 16 of Marquette‘s 20, (80%).
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: 61 FGA minus 15 offensive rebounds plus 12 turnovers plus 47.5% of 7 free throws = 61.325 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 61 possessions in which we scored 71 points or 1.164 points per possession. We are 1.094 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Marquette: 47-15+12 plus 47.5% of 35 = 60.625 possessions. Let’s call that 61 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 74 points or 1.213 points per possession. The opposition is 0.889 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 71 points, 30 in the paint and 7 from the foul line. Thus we had 34 POP, or 48% of our points. Marquette had 21 POP, or 28%. We averaged 28 POP last year, 33% of our points. So far this year we are averaging 24 POP, 32% of our scoring. We’ve averaged 26 POP at home and 22 on the road. Our opponents have averaged 24 POP, but that’s been 39% of their scoring.
The “Offensive Dude of the Game”, (points + assists) was CJ Fair with 20 points and 1 assist for a total of 21. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (12), CJ Fair (8) 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 14-14, 18-15, 17-15, 22-30.
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 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.
Michael Carter-Williams sat us down in the first half, Rakeem Christmas in the second half. CJ Fair has “sat us down” 14 times, Rakeem Christmas 11 times, Michael Carter-Williams 10 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 15 offensive and 18 defensive rebounds Marquette had 15 offensive and 12 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 45% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 564% of the time. For the year we have rebounded 40% of our misses and the opposition have rebounded 34% of theirs. We’ve out-rebounded 17 of 28 opponents by this measure.
Marquette had 12 turnovers, of which 4 were Syracuse steals, (33%). Syracuse had 12 turnovers of which 9 were Marquette steals, (75%). We had 39 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Marquette had 45. We have won this battle 18 times in 28 games, with two games even. We’ve averaged 8.5 more MP’s per game.
The Centers
I think our tandem of centers should get a total of at least 20 points + rebounds + blocks per game. They are averaging 28 on the season but only 18 in Big East games. In the Marquette game Rakeem Christmas had 2 points, 3 rebounds and no blocks while Baye Moussa Keita had 7 points, 8 rebounds and 1 block, for a total of 21. Christmas has contributed the most 16 times, Keita 8 times and the injured DaJuan Coleman 5 times.
“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”.
CJ Fair led the team with 40 minutes played in this game. Michael Carter-Williams has led in minutes played 12 times, CJ Fair 10 times, Brandon Triche 9 times and Jerami Grant twice, (this includes ties).