The Upside - Duke

[SWC75]

- Why was Nahem McCloud hardly used until his last two games? I recall in the ESPN pregame show, much was made of Duke being the tallest team in the country. I thought, “Let’s roll Naheem out and tell ‘em to get a load of this.” Naheem played 22 minutes, more than doubling his season total and topping Eddie Lampkin who had 18, made all 4 of his field goals, including a violent dunk, both of his free throws and scored 10 points. He had only two rebounds, (but we out-rebounded the tallest team 33-32). His NP/40 is now 19.9, best on the team.

- Jayre Davis had a fine game, scoring 12 points on 6 for 8 from the field. He also had 3 rebounds among the tall timber and an assist.

- Starling did have a great start, scoring our first 7 points, allowing us to be competitive early.

- Petar Majstorovic hustled his way 6 rebounds and an equal number of NP in 15 minutes.

- Eddie Lampkin didn’t have a great game but led us in rebs with 7 and that’s why we won that stat.

- I still like Maliq Brown and wish he was here. He had 6 pints, 8 rebounds, 3 steals a block and an assist. Ironically, with Freeman out, He’s be our ‘4’, which was what he wanted.

- The rest of the schedule contains no ranked teams.



10-13 and 8+ to go

LET’S GO ORANGE!


Net Points

This year I’m going to make things a bit easier on myself and just list the net points in each game after the Upside. Once a month I’ll do a deeper dive into the numbers rather than doing a “Net Points, etc.” post after every game. ‘Net’ points are the positives (points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks) minus the negatives, (missed field goals and free throws, turnovers and fouls committed).

Naheem McCleod game: 12NP in 22minutes season: 21NP in 42 minutes = 19.9NP/40m
Jyare Davis game: 10NP in 25 minutes season: 207NP in 518 minutes = 16.0NP/40m
Chris Bell game: 9NP in 18 minutes season: 122NP in 505 minutes = 9.7NP/40m
Petar Majstorovic game: 6NP in 15 minutes season: 69NP in 279 minutes = 9.9NP/40m
Eddie Lampkin game: 4NP in 18 minutes season: 308NP in 662 minutes = 18.6NP/40m
JJ Starling game: 4NP in 33 minutes season: 167NP in 547 minutes = 12.2NP/40m
Elijah Moore game: 3NP in 15 minutes season: 80NP in 360 minutes = 8.9NP/40m
Jaquan Carlos game: 1NP in 25 minutes season: 123NP in 596 minutes = 8.3NP/40m
Lucas Taylor game: 0NP in 17 minutes season: 96NP in 503 minutes = 7.6NP/40m
Kyle Cuffe game: -8NP in 12 minutes season: 55NP in 242 minutes = 9.1NP/40m

Donnie Freeman game: 0NP in 0 minutes season: 201NP in 355 minutes = 22.6NP/40m
Chance Westry game: 0NP in 0 minutes season: -1NP in 10 minutes = -4.0NP/40m

 

[CuseFan]

We really miss Maliq badly. He has a nose for the ball rebounding, goes all out all the time, and is a true team player.

Really wish he was still in Orange!