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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 +13NP in 22M season: +512NP in 1240M per 40M: +16.5NP
Baye Moussa Keita +5NP in 8M season: +173NP in 581M per 40M: +11.9NP
James Southerland +7NP in 28M season: +378NP in 861M per 40M: +17.6NP
Michael Carter-Williams +18NP in 29M season: +525NP in 1261M per 40M: +16.7NP
Rakeem Christmas +13NP in 17M season: +243NP in 781M per 40M: +12.4NP
Jerami Grant +9NP in 22M season: +133NP in 527M per 40M: +10.1NP
Trevor Cooney +7NP in 18M season +64NP in 418M per 40M: +6.1NP
Brandon Triche +22NP in 29M season: +355NP in 1199M per 40M: +11.8NP
DaJuan Coleman +14NP in 15M season: +95NP in 305M per 40M: +12.5NP
Comment: Everybody “got well“ against an obviously inferior team. Now let’s see what they do against California.
CJ Fair has led in “net points” 12 times, Michael Carter-Williams 10 times, James Southerland 8 times, Brandon Triche 8 times, Jerami Grant, Trevor Cooney and Baye Moussa Keita once each, (including ties).
Shooting Breakdown:
SU was 22/41, (.537) from inside the arc, 5/11 from outside, (.455) and 22/31 from the line (.710). Montana was 7/23 (.304) from inside the arc, 4/31, (.129) from outside, and 8/12, (.667) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 56 points and they score 75 points. If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 14-22, not 27-9.
For the season we are .490/.336/.677 and our opponents are .427/.291/.678. (Last year’s team was .520 from two point range. The 2010 team was .571.) 21 of our 27 baskets were assisted, (78%), vs. 5 of Montana‘s 11, (46%). 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 8 offensive rebounds plus 8 turnovers plus 47.5% of 31 free throws = 66.7 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 67 possessions in which we scored 81 points or 1.209 points per possession. We are 1.079 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Montana: 54-11+17 plus 47.5% of 12 = 65.7 possessions. Let’s call that 66 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 34 points or 0.515 points per possession. The opposition is 0.897 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 81 points, 38 in the paint and 22 from the foul line. Thus we had 21 POP or 26% of our points. Montana had 14 POP, or 41%. 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 20 points and 4 assists for a total of 24. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (13), CJ Fair (10) Brandon Triche (9) 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 22-8, 16-7, 21-5, 22-14.
For the year, the average score per quarter is 16-14, 18-12, 18-15, 19-18. 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. CJ Fair has “sat us down” 20 times, Rakeem Christmas 14 times, Michael Carter-Williams 13 times, Brandon Triche 11 times, DaJuan Coleman 6 times, James Southerland 3 times, Jerami Grant 2 times and Baye Moussa Keita, and Trevor Cooney 1 time each.
Possession:
It appeared we got every rebound in the place but we didn’t.
Syracuse had 8 offensive and 32 defensive rebounds Montana had 11 offensive and 22 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 27% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 26% 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 22 of 36 opponents by this measure.
Montana had 17 turnovers, of which 12 were Syracuse steals, (71%). Syracuse had 8 turnovers of which 5 were Montana steals, (62.5%). We had 57 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Montana had 41. We have won this battle 22 times in 36 games, with two games even. We’ve averaged 7 more MP’s per game, +4 in Big East games. Gaining and retaining 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 Montana game Rakeem Christmas had 9 points, 5 rebounds and 2 blocks while Baye Moussa Keita had 2 points, 2 rebounds and 2 blocks, DaJuan Coleman had 12 points, 6 rebounds and 0 blocks for a total of 40, the most since the Central Connecticut game and, not ironically, their average for the pre-Big East games. We’ve failed to reach 20 11 times, all in the 22 conference games. It was the first time Coleman had contributed the most since that same Central Connecticut game. Christmas has contributed the most 20 times, Keita 12 times and Coleman 6 with 2 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”.
Nobody played 30 minutes for SU in this game. Michael Carter-Williams and Brandon Triche both played 29. Michael Carter-Williams has led in minutes played 18 times, CJ Fair 14 times, Brandon Triche 11 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.)
CJ Fair +13NP in 22M season: +512NP in 1240M per 40M: +16.5NP
Baye Moussa Keita +5NP in 8M season: +173NP in 581M per 40M: +11.9NP
James Southerland +7NP in 28M season: +378NP in 861M per 40M: +17.6NP
Michael Carter-Williams +18NP in 29M season: +525NP in 1261M per 40M: +16.7NP
Rakeem Christmas +13NP in 17M season: +243NP in 781M per 40M: +12.4NP
Jerami Grant +9NP in 22M season: +133NP in 527M per 40M: +10.1NP
Trevor Cooney +7NP in 18M season +64NP in 418M per 40M: +6.1NP
Brandon Triche +22NP in 29M season: +355NP in 1199M per 40M: +11.8NP
DaJuan Coleman +14NP in 15M season: +95NP in 305M per 40M: +12.5NP
Comment: Everybody “got well“ against an obviously inferior team. Now let’s see what they do against California.
CJ Fair has led in “net points” 12 times, Michael Carter-Williams 10 times, James Southerland 8 times, Brandon Triche 8 times, Jerami Grant, Trevor Cooney and Baye Moussa Keita once each, (including ties).
Shooting Breakdown:
SU was 22/41, (.537) from inside the arc, 5/11 from outside, (.455) and 22/31 from the line (.710). Montana was 7/23 (.304) from inside the arc, 4/31, (.129) from outside, and 8/12, (.667) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 56 points and they score 75 points. If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 14-22, not 27-9.
For the season we are .490/.336/.677 and our opponents are .427/.291/.678. (Last year’s team was .520 from two point range. The 2010 team was .571.) 21 of our 27 baskets were assisted, (78%), vs. 5 of Montana‘s 11, (46%). 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 8 offensive rebounds plus 8 turnovers plus 47.5% of 31 free throws = 66.7 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 67 possessions in which we scored 81 points or 1.209 points per possession. We are 1.079 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
Montana: 54-11+17 plus 47.5% of 12 = 65.7 possessions. Let’s call that 66 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 34 points or 0.515 points per possession. The opposition is 0.897 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 81 points, 38 in the paint and 22 from the foul line. Thus we had 21 POP or 26% of our points. Montana had 14 POP, or 41%. 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 20 points and 4 assists for a total of 24. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (13), CJ Fair (10) Brandon Triche (9) 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 22-8, 16-7, 21-5, 22-14.
For the year, the average score per quarter is 16-14, 18-12, 18-15, 19-18. 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. CJ Fair has “sat us down” 20 times, Rakeem Christmas 14 times, Michael Carter-Williams 13 times, Brandon Triche 11 times, DaJuan Coleman 6 times, James Southerland 3 times, Jerami Grant 2 times and Baye Moussa Keita, and Trevor Cooney 1 time each.
Possession:
It appeared we got every rebound in the place but we didn’t.
Syracuse had 8 offensive and 32 defensive rebounds Montana had 11 offensive and 22 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 27% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 26% 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 22 of 36 opponents by this measure.
Montana had 17 turnovers, of which 12 were Syracuse steals, (71%). Syracuse had 8 turnovers of which 5 were Montana steals, (62.5%). We had 57 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). Montana had 41. We have won this battle 22 times in 36 games, with two games even. We’ve averaged 7 more MP’s per game, +4 in Big East games. Gaining and retaining 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 Montana game Rakeem Christmas had 9 points, 5 rebounds and 2 blocks while Baye Moussa Keita had 2 points, 2 rebounds and 2 blocks, DaJuan Coleman had 12 points, 6 rebounds and 0 blocks for a total of 40, the most since the Central Connecticut game and, not ironically, their average for the pre-Big East games. We’ve failed to reach 20 11 times, all in the 22 conference games. It was the first time Coleman had contributed the most since that same Central Connecticut game. Christmas has contributed the most 20 times, Keita 12 times and Coleman 6 with 2 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”.
Nobody played 30 minutes for SU in this game. Michael Carter-Williams and Brandon Triche both played 29. Michael Carter-Williams has led in minutes played 18 times, CJ Fair 14 times, Brandon Triche 11 times Jerami Grant twice and James Southerland , (this includes ties).