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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.
James Southerland +18NP in 35M season: +396NP in 896M per 40M: +17.7NP
CJ Fair +11NP in 39M season: +523NP in 1279M per 40M: +16.45NP
Baye Moussa Keita +10NP in 24M season: +183NP in 605M per 40M: +12.1NP
Rakeem Christmas +4NP in 16M season: +247NP in 797M per 40M: +12.4NP
Michael Carter-Williams +3NP in 38M season: +528NP in 1299M per 40M: +16.3NP
Brandon Triche +2NP in 40M season: +357NP in 1239M per 40M: +11.5NP
Trevor Cooney 0NP in 1M season +64NP in 419M per 40M: +6.1NP
DaJuan Coleman 0NP in 0M season: +95NP in 305M per 40M: +12.5NP
Jerami Grant -1NP in 7M season: +132NP in 534M per 40M: +9.9NP
Comment: James Southerland didn’t exactly go off in this game. He was 4 for 8 form the and 2 for 5 from the arc. But he also grabbed 9 rebounds, 2 assists and 4 steals. He also played excellent defense, especially cutting off drives to the basket. He’s more than just a shooter, (when he wants to be).
CJ Fair has led in “net points” 12 times, Michael Carter-Williams 10 times, James Southerland 9 times, Brandon Triche 8 times, Jerami Grant, Trevor Cooney and Baye Moussa Keita once each, (including ties).
Shooting Breakdown:
SU was 14/36, (.389) from inside the arc, 4/10 from outside, (.400) and 26/41 from the line (.634). California was 18/35 (.393) from inside the arc, 4/21, (.190) from outside, and 12/19, (.632) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 70 points and they score 64 points. We would have gotten 19 two pointers rather than 14 but only 2 three pointers, rather than 4 and the same 26 free throws. California would have gotten 14 two pointers instead of 18 but 8 three pointers instead of 4 and the same 12 free throws. So in this game, the shooting percentages were a wash. If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 15-22, not 28-9.
For the season we are .488/.337/.675 and our opponents are .429/.289/.677. (Last year’s team was .520 from two point range. The 2010 team was .571.) 7 of our 18 baskets were assisted, (39%), vs.14 of California‘s 22, (64%). 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: 46 FGA minus 14 offensive rebounds plus 15 turnovers plus 47.5% of 41 free throws = 66.475 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 67 possessions in which we scored 66 points or 0.985 points per possession. We are 1.076 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
California: 56-13+17 plus 47.5% of 19 = 69.025 possessions. Let’s call that 68 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 60 points or 0.882 points per possession. The opposition is 0.896 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 66 points, 28 in the paint and 26 from the foul line. Thus we had 12 POP or 18% of our points. California had 22 POP, or 37%. 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 23 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 CJ Fair, with 18 points and 0 assists for a total of 18. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (13), CJ Fair (11) 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 11-9, 21-15, 13-7, 21-29. Lousiville scored 31 points on us in the foruth quarter of the BET final. Cailfornia got only two elss than that.
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 42 times in 148 quarters this year, and lost 42.
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” 20 times, Rakeem Christmas 14 times, Michael Carter-Williams 13 times, Brandon Triche 12 times, DaJuan Coleman 6 times, James Southerland 4 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 14 offensive and 23 defensive rebounds California had 13 offensive and 21 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 40% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 36% 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 23 of 37 opponents by this measure.
California had 15 turnovers, of which 6 were Syracuse steals, (40%). Syracuse had 17 turnovers of which 10 were California steals, (58.8%). We had 54 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). California had 49. We have won this battle 23 times in 37 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 26 on the season but only 18 in Big East games. In the California game Rakeem Christmas had 3 points, 5 rebounds and 1 blocks while Baye Moussa Keita had 11 points, 7 rebounds and 1 blocks, DaJuan Coleman had 0 points, 0 rebounds and 0 blocks for a total of 28, We’ve failed to reach 20 11 times, all in the 22 conference games. Christmas has contributed the most 20 times, Keita 13 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”.
Brandon Triche played 40 minutes in this game. Michael Carter-Williams has led in minutes played 18 times, CJ Fair 14 times, Brandon Triche 12 times Jerami Grant twice and James Southerland , (this includes ties).
James Southerland +18NP in 35M season: +396NP in 896M per 40M: +17.7NP
CJ Fair +11NP in 39M season: +523NP in 1279M per 40M: +16.45NP
Baye Moussa Keita +10NP in 24M season: +183NP in 605M per 40M: +12.1NP
Rakeem Christmas +4NP in 16M season: +247NP in 797M per 40M: +12.4NP
Michael Carter-Williams +3NP in 38M season: +528NP in 1299M per 40M: +16.3NP
Brandon Triche +2NP in 40M season: +357NP in 1239M per 40M: +11.5NP
Trevor Cooney 0NP in 1M season +64NP in 419M per 40M: +6.1NP
DaJuan Coleman 0NP in 0M season: +95NP in 305M per 40M: +12.5NP
Jerami Grant -1NP in 7M season: +132NP in 534M per 40M: +9.9NP
Comment: James Southerland didn’t exactly go off in this game. He was 4 for 8 form the and 2 for 5 from the arc. But he also grabbed 9 rebounds, 2 assists and 4 steals. He also played excellent defense, especially cutting off drives to the basket. He’s more than just a shooter, (when he wants to be).
CJ Fair has led in “net points” 12 times, Michael Carter-Williams 10 times, James Southerland 9 times, Brandon Triche 8 times, Jerami Grant, Trevor Cooney and Baye Moussa Keita once each, (including ties).
Shooting Breakdown:
SU was 14/36, (.389) from inside the arc, 4/10 from outside, (.400) and 26/41 from the line (.634). California was 18/35 (.393) from inside the arc, 4/21, (.190) from outside, and 12/19, (.632) from the line. If you maintain the number of attempts but reverse the percentages, we score 70 points and they score 64 points. We would have gotten 19 two pointers rather than 14 but only 2 three pointers, rather than 4 and the same 26 free throws. California would have gotten 14 two pointers instead of 18 but 8 three pointers instead of 4 and the same 12 free throws. So in this game, the shooting percentages were a wash. If we shot what our opponents shot in every game this year, we’d be 15-22, not 28-9.
For the season we are .488/.337/.675 and our opponents are .429/.289/.677. (Last year’s team was .520 from two point range. The 2010 team was .571.) 7 of our 18 baskets were assisted, (39%), vs.14 of California‘s 22, (64%). 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: 46 FGA minus 14 offensive rebounds plus 15 turnovers plus 47.5% of 41 free throws = 66.475 possessions. The possessions can’t be more than one off so I’ll call that 67 possessions in which we scored 66 points or 0.985 points per possession. We are 1.076 on the season. Last season it was 1.126.
California: 56-13+17 plus 47.5% of 19 = 69.025 possessions. Let’s call that 68 possessions, (so we won’t be more than one off) in which they scored 60 points or 0.882 points per possession. The opposition is 0.896 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 66 points, 28 in the paint and 26 from the foul line. Thus we had 12 POP or 18% of our points. California had 22 POP, or 37%. 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 23 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 CJ Fair, with 18 points and 0 assists for a total of 18. So far the following players have been “Offensive Dudes”: Michael Carter-Williams (13), CJ Fair (11) 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 11-9, 21-15, 13-7, 21-29. Lousiville scored 31 points on us in the foruth quarter of the BET final. Cailfornia got only two elss than that.
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 42 times in 148 quarters this year, and lost 42.
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” 20 times, Rakeem Christmas 14 times, Michael Carter-Williams 13 times, Brandon Triche 12 times, DaJuan Coleman 6 times, James Southerland 4 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 14 offensive and 23 defensive rebounds California had 13 offensive and 21 defensive rebounds. That means that when we missed, we got the rebound 40% of the time. When they missed, they got the rebound 36% 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 23 of 37 opponents by this measure.
California had 15 turnovers, of which 6 were Syracuse steals, (40%). Syracuse had 17 turnovers of which 10 were California steals, (58.8%). We had 54 “manufactured” possessions, (our rebounds + their turnovers). California had 49. We have won this battle 23 times in 37 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 26 on the season but only 18 in Big East games. In the California game Rakeem Christmas had 3 points, 5 rebounds and 1 blocks while Baye Moussa Keita had 11 points, 7 rebounds and 1 blocks, DaJuan Coleman had 0 points, 0 rebounds and 0 blocks for a total of 28, We’ve failed to reach 20 11 times, all in the 22 conference games. Christmas has contributed the most 20 times, Keita 13 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”.
Brandon Triche played 40 minutes in this game. Michael Carter-Williams has led in minutes played 18 times, CJ Fair 14 times, Brandon Triche 12 times Jerami Grant twice and James Southerland , (this includes ties).