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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.)
Michael Carter-Williams +12NP in 38M season: +469NP in 1077M per 40M: +17.4NP
Rakeem Christmas +7NP in 26M season: +232NP in 692M per 40M: +13.4NP
CJ Fair +3NP in 37M season: +455NP in 1062M per 40M: +17.1NP
Jerami Grant +2NP in 4M season: +120NP in 480M per 40M: +10.0NP
DaJuan Coleman +1NP in 4M season: +81NP in 290M per 40M: +11.2NP
Baye Moussa Keita -2NP in 10M season: +134NP in 462M per 40M: +11.6NP
Trevor Cooney -2NP in 13M season +55NP in 363M per 40M: +6.1NP
Brandon Triche -3NP in 29M season: +304NP in 1032M per 40M: +11.8NP
James Southerland -5NP in 30M season: +311NP in 695M per 40M: +17.9NP
Comment: MCW’s 12 net points were tied with CJ Fair and Trevor Cooney for the lowest total to lead the team in any game this season, (the other two were both in the Alcon State game).
CJ Fair has led in “net points” 11 times, Michael Carter-Williams 10 times, Brandon Triche 6 times, James Southerland 4 times, Jerami Grant and Trevor Cooney once, (including ties).
Shooting Breakdown:
SU was 14/36, (.389) from inside the arc, 1/11 from outside, (.091: we are 3 for 29 in our alst two games, .103) and 8/12, (we can neither shoot from outside or get to the line), from the line (.667). Georgetown was 12/28 (.429) from inside the arc, 9/22, (.409) from outside, and 10/12, (.833) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 52 points and they score 35 points. If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 13-18, not 23-8.
For the season we are .495/.3125/.686 and our opponents are .426/.293/.684. 4 of our 15 baskets were assisted, (27%), vs. 18 of Georgetown‘s 21, (86%). They had more assists than we had baskets.
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: 47 FGA minus 10 offensive rebounds plus 14 turnovers plus 47.5% of 13 free throws = 57.175 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 56 possessions in which we scored 39 points or 0.696 points per possession. We are 1.075 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Georgetown: 50-10+9 plus 47.5% of 12 = 54.7 possessions. Let’s call that 56 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 61 points or 0.918 points per possession. The opposition is 0.894 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 39 points, 20 in the paint and 8 from the foul line. Thus we had 11 POP,( our lowest output of the season), or 28% of our points. Georgetown had 37 POP, or 61%. It was a battle between a team that wasn’t hitting jumps shot and one that was. 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 22 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 Michael Carter-Williams with 17 points and 2 assist for a total of 19. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (13), CJ Fair (9) Brandon Triche (6) and James Southerland (5).
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 11-11, 7-14, 13-19, 8-17. It was the first time we’ve not made it to 15 points in any quarter this year and the second time we hadn’t won a quarter, (Pittsburgh).
For the year, the average score per quarter is 16-14, 18-12, 18-15, 20-18. Last year the averages per quarter were: 17-14, 18-12, 19-15, 20-18. We’ve missed the 15 point mark 34 times in 124 quarters this year, and lost 35.
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.
Rakeem Christmas sat us down in the first half, Michael Carter-Williams in the second half. CJ Fair has “sat us down” 14 times, Rakeem Christmas and Michael Carter-Williams 13 times, Brandon Triche 9 times, DaJuan Coleman 6 times, James Southerland 3 times, Jerami Grant 2 times and Baye Moussa Keita, and Trevor Cooney 1 time each.
Possession:
Syracuse had 10 offensive and 17 defensive rebounds Georgetown had 10 offensive and 22 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 31% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 37% 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 19 of 31 opponents by this measure.
Georgetown had 9 turnovers, of which 4 were Syracuse steals, (44%). Syracuse had 14 turnovers of which 9 were Georgetown steals, (64%). We had 45 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Georgetown had 46. We have won this battle 20 times in 31 games, with two games even. We’ve averaged 9 more MP’s per game, +5.5 in Big East games. Gaining possession has not been a big issue, overall.
The Centers
I think our tandem of centers should get a total of at least 20 points + rebounds + blocks per game. They are averaging 27 on the season but only 18 in Big East games. In the Georgetown game Rakeem Christmas had 8 points, 6 rebounds and 1 blocks while Baye Moussa Keita had 0 points,1 rebounds and 0 blocks, for a total of 21. DuJuan Coleman had 0 points, 0 rebounds and 0 blocks. Christmas has contributed the most 20 times, Keita 8 times and the injured DaJuan Coleman 5 times, (includes ties).
“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- played 38 minutes played in this game. Michael Carter-Williams has led in minutes played 15 times, CJ Fair 12 times, Brandon Triche 10 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.)
Michael Carter-Williams +12NP in 38M season: +469NP in 1077M per 40M: +17.4NP
Rakeem Christmas +7NP in 26M season: +232NP in 692M per 40M: +13.4NP
CJ Fair +3NP in 37M season: +455NP in 1062M per 40M: +17.1NP
Jerami Grant +2NP in 4M season: +120NP in 480M per 40M: +10.0NP
DaJuan Coleman +1NP in 4M season: +81NP in 290M per 40M: +11.2NP
Baye Moussa Keita -2NP in 10M season: +134NP in 462M per 40M: +11.6NP
Trevor Cooney -2NP in 13M season +55NP in 363M per 40M: +6.1NP
Brandon Triche -3NP in 29M season: +304NP in 1032M per 40M: +11.8NP
James Southerland -5NP in 30M season: +311NP in 695M per 40M: +17.9NP
Comment: MCW’s 12 net points were tied with CJ Fair and Trevor Cooney for the lowest total to lead the team in any game this season, (the other two were both in the Alcon State game).
CJ Fair has led in “net points” 11 times, Michael Carter-Williams 10 times, Brandon Triche 6 times, James Southerland 4 times, Jerami Grant and Trevor Cooney once, (including ties).
Shooting Breakdown:
SU was 14/36, (.389) from inside the arc, 1/11 from outside, (.091: we are 3 for 29 in our alst two games, .103) and 8/12, (we can neither shoot from outside or get to the line), from the line (.667). Georgetown was 12/28 (.429) from inside the arc, 9/22, (.409) from outside, and 10/12, (.833) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 52 points and they score 35 points. If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 13-18, not 23-8.
For the season we are .495/.3125/.686 and our opponents are .426/.293/.684. 4 of our 15 baskets were assisted, (27%), vs. 18 of Georgetown‘s 21, (86%). They had more assists than we had baskets.
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: 47 FGA minus 10 offensive rebounds plus 14 turnovers plus 47.5% of 13 free throws = 57.175 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 56 possessions in which we scored 39 points or 0.696 points per possession. We are 1.075 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Georgetown: 50-10+9 plus 47.5% of 12 = 54.7 possessions. Let’s call that 56 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 61 points or 0.918 points per possession. The opposition is 0.894 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 39 points, 20 in the paint and 8 from the foul line. Thus we had 11 POP,( our lowest output of the season), or 28% of our points. Georgetown had 37 POP, or 61%. It was a battle between a team that wasn’t hitting jumps shot and one that was. 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 22 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 Michael Carter-Williams with 17 points and 2 assist for a total of 19. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (13), CJ Fair (9) Brandon Triche (6) and James Southerland (5).
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 11-11, 7-14, 13-19, 8-17. It was the first time we’ve not made it to 15 points in any quarter this year and the second time we hadn’t won a quarter, (Pittsburgh).
For the year, the average score per quarter is 16-14, 18-12, 18-15, 20-18. Last year the averages per quarter were: 17-14, 18-12, 19-15, 20-18. We’ve missed the 15 point mark 34 times in 124 quarters this year, and lost 35.
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.
Rakeem Christmas sat us down in the first half, Michael Carter-Williams in the second half. CJ Fair has “sat us down” 14 times, Rakeem Christmas and Michael Carter-Williams 13 times, Brandon Triche 9 times, DaJuan Coleman 6 times, James Southerland 3 times, Jerami Grant 2 times and Baye Moussa Keita, and Trevor Cooney 1 time each.
Possession:
Syracuse had 10 offensive and 17 defensive rebounds Georgetown had 10 offensive and 22 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 31% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 37% 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 19 of 31 opponents by this measure.
Georgetown had 9 turnovers, of which 4 were Syracuse steals, (44%). Syracuse had 14 turnovers of which 9 were Georgetown steals, (64%). We had 45 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Georgetown had 46. We have won this battle 20 times in 31 games, with two games even. We’ve averaged 9 more MP’s per game, +5.5 in Big East games. Gaining possession has not been a big issue, overall.
The Centers
I think our tandem of centers should get a total of at least 20 points + rebounds + blocks per game. They are averaging 27 on the season but only 18 in Big East games. In the Georgetown game Rakeem Christmas had 8 points, 6 rebounds and 1 blocks while Baye Moussa Keita had 0 points,1 rebounds and 0 blocks, for a total of 21. DuJuan Coleman had 0 points, 0 rebounds and 0 blocks. Christmas has contributed the most 20 times, Keita 8 times and the injured DaJuan Coleman 5 times, (includes ties).
“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- played 38 minutes played in this game. Michael Carter-Williams has led in minutes played 15 times, CJ Fair 12 times, Brandon Triche 10 times and Jerami Grant twice, (this includes ties).