I will say that Lewisâs ball-handling and ability to drive needs work. There was one possession in the 2H where Lewis got the ball on the right wing and the middle was relatively cleared out. The guy was marking him tightly at the 3 point line so he tried to drive around him. It was kinda awkward and Lewis went nowhere with it. He then handed the ball off to TDR who was in a similar situation, put the ball on the court and just blew past his guy for an easy layup.
Lewis is a great spot-up shooter and I see the potential in him, but heâs clearly a step down from TDR when it comes to handling the ball driving on a defender.
I donât think there have been sufficient games to really evaluate the players. I think we can see some of the skills they have or lack, but still a lot of fog there.
I would say that it is fair at this point to see the lack of defense from Hall though he seems to be good at spotting the open man. We can see the energy and aggression from Chance. I think we can see that DeRidder can be a quality, physical PF while Grunlogh is skilled but will have trouble against college power centers. I think it is fair to say Jacari White is a guy that brings some juice offensively. Iâve seen all that in every game. Everything else Iâm sort of in the âneed to see moreâ mode.
Chance is everything we hoped he would be. Heâs going to be a difference maker. If he was 6â2â he might be a one and done.
There is a lot of cleanup this team needs to do in the non-statistical functions.
Only 3 minutes in first half vs Hampton when the game was still in the balance and then 10 minutes in garbage time in the 2nd halfâŚ
2/5 4 points 4 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 block and mostly shutdown defense⌠in only 13 minutes is pretty good for the 5th guardâŚrusty some with ball handling but they wonât really need ball handling from him with Hall and Mallory there and some Jacari and Malik.
The run he got in the 2nd half is the closest to enough time in agame to get a semblance of rhythm that most players need to be effectiveâŚ. Also not bad for someone who hasnât played in two years and likely is still trepidatious about their knee.
After the last few years, having a bunch of reliable three-point shooters is like hitting the jackpot. And I consider all these guys â even Malik â to be good shooters. But so far, they all seem mostly spot-up shooters. Which means we need to get them open. Who can do that? De Ridder down low and Chance off the dribble seem to be effective, but that may be it. I can see us struggling to get good looks against better teams.
Malik was 2nd on the team with 3 assists in the game and had 2 really nice ones early ⌠go back and look at the game recap highlights before the broadcast came on after 6 minutes in
I thought he looked pretty smooth during his (8?) minutes last night. Another year in the weight room and heâll be ready. I hope he will be a multi-year guy.
Speaking of, if anyone hasnât heard the Tillis-Marty podcast, thereâs some comic gold at the end when Tillis really pauses over Martyâs comment that he (Marty) obviously wouldnât like Black Panther movies as much as Tillis. âWait. Why?â
A long one liner is: How much does the player show up in the box score, weighted for how rare those stats are for their position, and calibrated to their teamâs performance?
BPM directly captures offensive creation and visible defensive disruption (think stocks). And it surfaces guys who have kinda weirdo stat combinations for their position; for example Zay had huge BPM numbers because he had good playmaking numbers as a big and lots of box score defensive stats.
BPM is also influenced by the team performance; if a team is hypothetically +10, BPM is going to divide up credit for that +10 between the players based on their box score stats.
BPM of course misses everything that isnât well captured by the box score. A good defender who doesnât produce stocks wonât been seen as a good defender in BPM.
Also worth noting that from a technical perspective defensive BPM isnât directly estimated, itâs calculated by estimating total BPM then estimating offensive BPM, and taking the difference.
