Billsrmajic Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 It seems obvious that rebounding is a top priority for the team this year. We have been getting schooled on the boards, and it is obviously negatively impacting the team. Here are the rebounding stats per 40 minutes played: Evans - 10.5 Loe - 9 Ellis - 7.6 Remekun - 6.7 Jett - 6.3 Conklin - 3.8 Salecich - 3.1 Cassity - 2.4 McCall - 1.2 Eckerle - 1.2 Obviously it's easier to get defensive rebounds when you are defending the post, so the number for Jett is espcially impressive. It also seems to me this stat shows how impressive Evans has been this year. Leading the team in rebounding as a 6-5 freshman wing is pretty impressive. How about a line-up of Jett, Cassity, Ellis, Evans and Loe? That's a pretty talented lineup offensively, and it looks like one of the best rebounding lineups, also. Defensively that lineup would struggle with both Ellis and Loe, but hopefully Tuesday's benching (plus some time to recover from his illness) gets Cody going on both ends. That would allow you to bring in McCall for an offensive spark, Salecich to shut down the opposition's hottest player, and Cory to spell the bigs. Unfortunately, this stat demonstrates that Brian's minutes may become fewer and fewer. Eckerle is at best a sparkplug for a few minutes at a time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpencerFilibuster Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=303342501 According to ESPN, we had 21 rebounds last game, and 7 of them were on offense. The pilots were 28-47 from the floor. 19 missed shots. So the pilots only had 5 rebounds on offense. I don't disagree, rebounding isn't our strong point, and at least last year, it was a policy of Majerus' to abandon crashing the boards on offense. Not sure what he'll do this year once it gets to conference play. One of our biggest flaws right now is the other teams FG % and FT % (per Ken Pomeroy). There's no rebounds for us to grab if the other team is making all of their shots. We took out Portland's guards, but we couldn't stop their bigs. I was surprised that Majerus didn't compromise our perimeter defense (at least a little) in that game in order to help out Conk, Remekun and Loe in the post. Portland's team is fairly well balanced, and we couldn't handle it. I shudder to think about Duke's balance of bigs and guards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triangle andToo Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 As Triangle understands the game of basketball, a player can shoot a basketball from thirteen feet away without being hassled by the defense - it is called a FREE THROW. Our Billikens need too understand this concept. A .605 stat for this 13ft free shot is totally unacceptable. Although our opponents have shot 15 less free throws, they are shooting a respectable .747 and games are being lost. McCall (.875) and Loe (.800) seem to be the best in this area so therefore they should be the most aggressive on offense intoo the lane. Our season field goal percentages (except for Salecich, this guy should never, ever shoot the rock) and our rebounding stats (except for the Portland game) are fairly OK in comparison too our opponents. Triangle feels that the easiest way too improve this team and hopefully bring more wins, is too CREATE MORE FREE THROW OPPORTUNITIES AND MAKE MORE FREE THROWS! so it goes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill_Ken R Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 As Triangle understands the game of basketball, a player can shoot a basketball from thirteen feet away without being hassled by the defense - it is called a FREE THROW. Our Billikens need too understand this concept. A .605 stat for this 13ft free shot is totally unacceptable. Although our opponents have shot 15 less free throws, they are shooting a respectable .747 and games are being lost. McCall (.875) and Loe (.800) seem to be the best in this area so therefore they should be the most aggressive on offense intoo the lane. Our season field goal percentages (except for Salecich, this guy should never, ever shoot the rock) and our rebounding stats (except for the Portland game) are fairly OK in comparison too our opponents. Triangle feels that the easiest way too improve this team and hopefully bring more wins, is too CREATE MORE FREE THROW OPPORTUNITIES AND MAKE MORE FREE THROWS! so it goes Nice post. Welcome back Too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufan13 Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 As Triangle understands the game of basketball, a player can shoot a basketball from thirteen feet away without being hassled by the defense - it is called a FREE THROW. Our Billikens need too understand this concept. A .605 stat for this 13ft free shot is totally unacceptable. Although our opponents have shot 15 less free throws, they are shooting a respectable .747 and games are being lost. McCall (.875) and Loe (.800) seem to be the best in this area so therefore they should be the most aggressive on offense intoo the lane. Our season field goal percentages (except for Salecich, this guy should never, ever shoot the rock) and our rebounding stats (except for the Portland game) are fairly OK in comparison too our opponents. Triangle feels that the easiest way too improve this team and hopefully bring more wins, is too CREATE MORE FREE THROW OPPORTUNITIES AND MAKE MORE FREE THROWS! so it goes maybe im misunderstanding you, but i thought a free throw is 15 ft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quality Is Job 1 Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 As Triangle understands the game of basketball, a player can shoot a basketball from thirteen feet away without being hassled by the defense - it is called a FREE THROW. Our Billikens need too understand this concept. A .605 stat for this 13ft free shot is totally unacceptable. Although our opponents have shot 15 less free throws, they are shooting a respectable .747 and games are being lost. McCall (.875) and Loe (.800) seem to be the best in this area so therefore they should be the most aggressive on offense intoo the lane. Our season field goal percentages (except for Salecich, this guy should never, ever shoot the rock) and our rebounding stats (except for the Portland game) are fairly OK in comparison too our opponents. Triangle feels that the easiest way too improve this team and hopefully bring more wins, is too CREATE MORE FREE THROW OPPORTUNITIES AND MAKE MORE FREE THROWS! so it goes The world will end soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetorch Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 maybe im misunderstanding you, but i thought a free throw is 15 ft. It is. A very obtoose remark from Too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOSLU68 Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 Player G GS Min MPG O.Reb D.Reb Reb RPG Mitchell 35 35 1148 32.9 130 18 8.8 Reed 35 32 962 27.5 273 7.9 7.9 Ellis 22 19 615 28 34 26 2.3 Salecich 36 31 1020 28.3 11 73 84 Conklin 36 16 750 20.8 127 3.5 .88 Cassity 36 29 1166 32.4 8 107 1. 15 Jordan 33 0 600 18.2 52 55 1.7 John 17 8 290 17.1 33 47 2.8 Smith 35 5 367 10.5 97 2.8 42 Remekun 36 5 436 12.1 37 63 1.8 last years' if I got the columns straight- no reason to panic yet; obviosly Barnett will help next year with his ball hawk mentality; Evans is helping. Conklin needs to play more as he has been less rushed more relaxed to finish; rebounding is a quickess thin as well as jumping. We lost a lot of quickness in KM and Willie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slu72 Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 Not having watched the game, it sounds like we got manhandled in the paint. FT's aside, and yes the astoot Mr. Too is correct in his assessment of FT's, but if we don't tighten up on the interior D plus get more boards, we're in for some very rough nights. It wasn't like Sikma was a 6'11" stud. He was 6'8". I don't know about the other 2 guys, but you would think with BC, CR, and RL we should have prevented it from being this easy to score bunny buckets. As for Duke, what does it really matter where you concentrate? They're good from the perimiter, inside, FT line, speed, defense, et al. It's gonna be painful to watch unless Coach K has a big heart. But how do you tell your kids to play at less than full speed? He won't. Of all games to get on national TV, why this one? I'm kind of hoping they've got another game to cut away to. You've got to admit, not only is it hard being a Bills fan, but sometimes you've got to think we're cursed. When this game was put on the sched we all thought, well we won't look that bad. Now, it's like, I hope we don't break our own record for fewest points scored. Hate the negativity of this post but it is what it is, and it ain't gonna be good when we travel to Cameron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quickdraw Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 maybe im misunderstanding you, but i thought a free throw is 15 ft. The free throw line is 15 feet from the backboard. It is supposed to be 13 ft, 9 inches from the center of the hoop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinfootes Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 maybe im misunderstanding you, but i thought a free throw is 15 ft. not as t&t understands the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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