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Message: [QUOTE="fanfanclubclub, post: 76701, member: 787"] Seattlecuse, my point was very logical. JS scored a bunch of early points against lousy competition, and a few posters started saying that he was looking like a new, very good player. In response, I pointed out that the empiricism demonstrates that JS is a high-volume, mediocre-percentage shooter, who adds little else. I explained that I don't like it when the Cuse wastes their early season games by letting gunners put up big stats: like Scoop did last year. Infact, maybe I should have used more stats from last year to prove my point. JS has already done this early season act before, and so has Scoop, MeShawn, and some other gunners of note. Syracuse has regularly wasted some of our early season cupcakes by letting role players put up too many shots: instead of working on building an efficient offense. I don't want to see us invest very many shots and offensive sets in James Southerland, when we have so many more valuable players who are younger and need reps, sets, and shots (MCW, Waiters, Fair, Melo, etc) The fact that you consider true shooting percentage, usage, and other such very simple metrics to be a "bizarre" stat kinda proves my point. You are only looking at a very narrow snapshot: how JS is shooting in the first half against Albany, mostly focusing on points. The problem with such a narrow focus, is that you might get tricked by a small sample size, instead of noticing "regressions to the mean." That is why I provided relevant, historical stats: to put JS's hot first half in context. I am trying to look at the bigger picture: whether or not letting a high-volume, mediocre-efficiency shooter dominate our offense is good for our national championship hopes. I understand that this sort of analysis is tremendously unpopular to most casual fans. Last season, I was the leading Scoop critic (under the name ThomServo). At first I was banned and blocked simply for using statistics to demonstrate that Scoop was not playing efficiently. The board is finally coming around to my opinion on Scoop. James is a similar player. Both he and Scoop would be legends on lesser teams, but they are not efficient enough to be shooters on an elite team. [/QUOTE]

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