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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.)
Baye Moussa Keita +15NP in 41M season: +158NP in 547M per 40M: +11.6NP
James Southerland +11NP in 44M season: +365NP in 805M per 40M: +18.1NP
Trevor Cooney +10NP in 15M season +62NP in 388M per 40M: +6.4NP
Brandon Triche +9NP in 34M season: +339NP in 1138M per 40M: +11.9NP
Jerami Grant +1NP in 1M season: +126NP in 491M per 40M: +10.3NP
Michael Carter-Williams 0NP in 41M season: +503NP in 1196M per 40M: +16.8NP
DaJuan Coleman 0NP in 0M season: +81NP in 290M per 40M: +11.2NP
Rakeem Christmas -3NP in 21M season: +227NP in 750M per 40M: +12.1NP
CJ Fair -5NP in 45M season: +475NP in 1180M per 40M: +16.1NP
Comment: It’s amazing that we could have a -5 game from our best and most consistent player, CJ Fair and a 0 game from MCW and still beat a team who had whipped us twice. It shows that all the players Syracuse uses can play the game. Some of them just need the opportunity to show what they can do. In this case, Trevor Cooney and Baye Moussa Keita, normally supporting players, combined with Brandon Triche, coming out of an awful slump carried the team into the BET finals.
CJ Fair has led in “net points” 11 times, Michael Carter-Williams 10 times, James Southerland 8 times, Brandon Triche 7 times, Jerami Grant, Trevor Cooney and Baye Moussa Keita once each, (including ties).
Shooting Breakdown:
SU was 12/34, (.353) from inside the arc, 7/18 from outside, (.389) and 13/19 from the line (.684). Georgetown was 16/35 (.457) from inside the arc, 4/18, (.222) from outside, and 11/20, (.550) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 54 points and they score 59 points. If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 14-20, not 26-8.
For the season we are .490/.332/.683 and our opponents are .428/.297/.676. 11 of our 19 baskets were assisted, (58%), vs. 15 of Georgetown‘s 20, (75%). 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: 52 FGA minus 13 offensive rebounds plus 14 turnovers plus 47.5% of 19 free throws = 62.025 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 62 possessions in which we scored 58 points or 0.935 points per possession. (1st Georgetown game: 0.780, 2nd: 0.696). We are 1.078 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Georgetown: 53-13+11 plus 47.5% of 20 = 60.5 possessions. Let’s call that 61 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 55 points or 0.902 points per possession. The opposition is 0.905 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 58 points, 22 in the paint and 13 from the foul line. Thus we had 23 POP or 40% of our points. Georgetown had 22 POP, or 40%. We averaged 28 POP last year, 33% of our points. So far this year we are averaging 24 POP, 34% of our scoring. We’ve averaged 26 POP at the Dome and 24 away from it. Our opponents have averaged 24 POP, but that’s been 40% of their scoring.
The “Offensive Dude of the Game”, (points + assists) was Brandon Triche, with 13 points and 3 assists for a total of 16. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (13), CJ Fair (9) Brandon Triche (8) and James Southerland (6).
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 12-13, 17-7, 14-17, 8-14 (7-4). We won only the second quarter and overtime but it was enough.
For the year, the average score per quarter is 16-14, 18-12, 18-15, 19-17. Last year the averages per quarter were: 15-14, 19-12, 18-17, 21-18. We’ve missed the 15 point mark 38 times in 136 quarters this year, and lost 39.
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.
CJ Fair sat us down in both halves. (Incredibly he made only one other basket in the game.) CJ Fair has “sat us down” 17 times, Rakeem Christmas 14 times, Michael Carter-Williams 13 times, Brandon Triche 10 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 13 offensive and 26 defensive rebounds Georgetown had 13 offensive and 25 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 34% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 33% 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 21 of 34 opponents by this measure.
Georgetown had 11 turnovers, of which 6 were Syracuse steals, (55%). Syracuse had 14 turnovers of which 7 were Georgetown steals, (50%). We had 50 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Georgetown had 52. We have won this battle 21 times in 34 games, with two games even. We’ve averaged 7 more MP’s per game, +5 in Big East games. Gaining possession has not been a big issue, overall, but it is against the physical teams we are meeting in this tournament.
The Centers
I think our tandem of centers should get a total of at least 20 points + rebounds + blocks per game. They are averaging 26 on the season but only 18 in Big East games. In the Syracuse game Rakeem Christmas had 0 points, 0 rebounds and 0 blocks while Baye Moussa Keita had 13 points, 8 rebounds and 1 blocks, DaJuan Coleman had 0 points, 0 rebounds and 0 blocks for a total of 22, (all thanks to Baye. (Gotta love JB: he said “Our other center was asleep. We couldn’t wake him up for the game.”) We’ve failed to reach 20 11 times, all in the 21 conference games. Christmas has contributed the most 20 times, Keita 11 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”.
It’s a measure of CJ Fair’s status on the team that he played every minute (45) of the worst game he ever played. Two keys: He was being guarded, (but consuming the attention of) Otto Porter and he was guarding Porter, who also had a sub-par game. Michael Carter-Williams has led in minutes played 17 times, CJ Fair 13 times, Brandon Triche 10 times Jerami Grant twice and James Southerland , (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.)
Baye Moussa Keita +15NP in 41M season: +158NP in 547M per 40M: +11.6NP
James Southerland +11NP in 44M season: +365NP in 805M per 40M: +18.1NP
Trevor Cooney +10NP in 15M season +62NP in 388M per 40M: +6.4NP
Brandon Triche +9NP in 34M season: +339NP in 1138M per 40M: +11.9NP
Jerami Grant +1NP in 1M season: +126NP in 491M per 40M: +10.3NP
Michael Carter-Williams 0NP in 41M season: +503NP in 1196M per 40M: +16.8NP
DaJuan Coleman 0NP in 0M season: +81NP in 290M per 40M: +11.2NP
Rakeem Christmas -3NP in 21M season: +227NP in 750M per 40M: +12.1NP
CJ Fair -5NP in 45M season: +475NP in 1180M per 40M: +16.1NP
Comment: It’s amazing that we could have a -5 game from our best and most consistent player, CJ Fair and a 0 game from MCW and still beat a team who had whipped us twice. It shows that all the players Syracuse uses can play the game. Some of them just need the opportunity to show what they can do. In this case, Trevor Cooney and Baye Moussa Keita, normally supporting players, combined with Brandon Triche, coming out of an awful slump carried the team into the BET finals.
CJ Fair has led in “net points” 11 times, Michael Carter-Williams 10 times, James Southerland 8 times, Brandon Triche 7 times, Jerami Grant, Trevor Cooney and Baye Moussa Keita once each, (including ties).
Shooting Breakdown:
SU was 12/34, (.353) from inside the arc, 7/18 from outside, (.389) and 13/19 from the line (.684). Georgetown was 16/35 (.457) from inside the arc, 4/18, (.222) from outside, and 11/20, (.550) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 54 points and they score 59 points. If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 14-20, not 26-8.
For the season we are .490/.332/.683 and our opponents are .428/.297/.676. 11 of our 19 baskets were assisted, (58%), vs. 15 of Georgetown‘s 20, (75%). 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: 52 FGA minus 13 offensive rebounds plus 14 turnovers plus 47.5% of 19 free throws = 62.025 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 62 possessions in which we scored 58 points or 0.935 points per possession. (1st Georgetown game: 0.780, 2nd: 0.696). We are 1.078 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Georgetown: 53-13+11 plus 47.5% of 20 = 60.5 possessions. Let’s call that 61 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 55 points or 0.902 points per possession. The opposition is 0.905 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 58 points, 22 in the paint and 13 from the foul line. Thus we had 23 POP or 40% of our points. Georgetown had 22 POP, or 40%. We averaged 28 POP last year, 33% of our points. So far this year we are averaging 24 POP, 34% of our scoring. We’ve averaged 26 POP at the Dome and 24 away from it. Our opponents have averaged 24 POP, but that’s been 40% of their scoring.
The “Offensive Dude of the Game”, (points + assists) was Brandon Triche, with 13 points and 3 assists for a total of 16. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (13), CJ Fair (9) Brandon Triche (8) and James Southerland (6).
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 12-13, 17-7, 14-17, 8-14 (7-4). We won only the second quarter and overtime but it was enough.
For the year, the average score per quarter is 16-14, 18-12, 18-15, 19-17. Last year the averages per quarter were: 15-14, 19-12, 18-17, 21-18. We’ve missed the 15 point mark 38 times in 136 quarters this year, and lost 39.
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.
CJ Fair sat us down in both halves. (Incredibly he made only one other basket in the game.) CJ Fair has “sat us down” 17 times, Rakeem Christmas 14 times, Michael Carter-Williams 13 times, Brandon Triche 10 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 13 offensive and 26 defensive rebounds Georgetown had 13 offensive and 25 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 34% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 33% 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 21 of 34 opponents by this measure.
Georgetown had 11 turnovers, of which 6 were Syracuse steals, (55%). Syracuse had 14 turnovers of which 7 were Georgetown steals, (50%). We had 50 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Georgetown had 52. We have won this battle 21 times in 34 games, with two games even. We’ve averaged 7 more MP’s per game, +5 in Big East games. Gaining possession has not been a big issue, overall, but it is against the physical teams we are meeting in this tournament.
The Centers
I think our tandem of centers should get a total of at least 20 points + rebounds + blocks per game. They are averaging 26 on the season but only 18 in Big East games. In the Syracuse game Rakeem Christmas had 0 points, 0 rebounds and 0 blocks while Baye Moussa Keita had 13 points, 8 rebounds and 1 blocks, DaJuan Coleman had 0 points, 0 rebounds and 0 blocks for a total of 22, (all thanks to Baye. (Gotta love JB: he said “Our other center was asleep. We couldn’t wake him up for the game.”) We’ve failed to reach 20 11 times, all in the 21 conference games. Christmas has contributed the most 20 times, Keita 11 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”.
It’s a measure of CJ Fair’s status on the team that he played every minute (45) of the worst game he ever played. Two keys: He was being guarded, (but consuming the attention of) Otto Porter and he was guarding Porter, who also had a sub-par game. Michael Carter-Williams has led in minutes played 17 times, CJ Fair 13 times, Brandon Triche 10 times Jerami Grant twice and James Southerland , (this includes ties).