Recap: Kansas 61 Southern Illinois 58
In a game that went largely according to form (not as many possessions as Kansas would want, nor as few as Southern Illinois desired; lots of turnovers; poor Kansas free throw shooting; poor Southern Illinois field goal shooting), one facet of the game stood out: Southern Illinois had 17 offensive rebounds. Kansas had 20 defensive rebounds. That’s 45.9% of possible Kansas defensive rebounds in the Salukis’ hands.
In their previous 23 at-risk games (14 against MVC opponents, the rest against Arkansas, Minnesota, Virginia Tech (twice), Louisiana Tech, Western Kentucky, Indiana, St. Mary’s (CA), and Holy Cross), Southern Illinois, on average, got just 29% of possible offensive rebounds.
That makes it three out of the last four games in which Kansas has failed to grab even 60% of possible offensive rebounds. It wasn’t huge factor in either the Big 12 Championship game against Texas or against Kentucky as Kansas outshot both of those teams while also turning the ball over less often. Against a good defensive team, it almost proved costly.
Holding your opponent to 42.1 eFG% loses a lot of its value when you allow them to attempt 135% as many shots.
UPDATE: Ken Pomeroy’s HD Box Score for KU/SIU
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March 23rd, 2007 at 8:55 am
Bret,
How does the +/- work on his HD box scores? Is that how a team did while a given player was in or out of the game?
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:06 am
I believe that it’s the raw number (i.e. not adjusted per minute or per possession) representing the team’s scoring margin while the player was in the game.
In the columns that have a “/” in them, the number before the “/” represents the player’s total in that category with the number after the “/” representing the team’s total in that category while the player was on the floor.
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:45 am
You’re right on +/-. But with the “/” categories, the second number in each category shows “opportunities” in some way:
Points / team points
FGA / team FGA
Assists / teammates’ field goals
Steals / defensive possessions
Turnovers / offensive possessions
Blocks / opponent FGA
Off Reb / team missed shots
Def Reb / opponent missed shots
Each one is, of course, only referring to activity while that player was on the floor. Pomeroy’s explanation is here.
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:51 am
I guess I was confused because I was thinking that the numbers should net out to the margin of victory.
But then I imagined a game in which all starters played all minutes and lost by five.
They would each have a +/- of -5.
Amazing that we were -11 w/ JW on the court. I thought he was the difference maker in the game going in, and I was right, just in the wrong way.