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Two Time Iggy Award Winner: Edwards for Three!
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I found myself thinking about advanced stats as found on Sports Reference.
We all had mixed to poor reviews with the eye test on Naheem McLeod, the Highlander.
To our casual eyes, McLeod seemed slow to react in the pick and roll, never got any rebounds, rarely scored and only was good for blocking shots.
But looking at our advanced stats, a very different story is told.
McLeod is our best returning player my both BPM and PER, second on last year's roster only to Maliq Brown.
The Highlander led the team in both offensive and defensive rebounding% along with block%. He also was second only to Brown in ts% and eFG%. Based purely on advanced statistics, you could make a case that McLeod was our second most valuable player last season, ahead of Mintz, Bell, and Starling.
So... Are we going to believe the analytics or our own eyes?
We all had mixed to poor reviews with the eye test on Naheem McLeod, the Highlander.
To our casual eyes, McLeod seemed slow to react in the pick and roll, never got any rebounds, rarely scored and only was good for blocking shots.
But looking at our advanced stats, a very different story is told.
McLeod is our best returning player my both BPM and PER, second on last year's roster only to Maliq Brown.
The Highlander led the team in both offensive and defensive rebounding% along with block%. He also was second only to Brown in ts% and eFG%. Based purely on advanced statistics, you could make a case that McLeod was our second most valuable player last season, ahead of Mintz, Bell, and Starling.
So... Are we going to believe the analytics or our own eyes?
Naheem McLeod College Stats | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
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2023-24 Syracuse Orange Men's Roster and Stats | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
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