Sunday, February 12, 2006

Duke 96, Maryland 88

I'm back! (I'm sure you're all thrilled). Here's the table for the Maryland game:

Player

Off. Poss.

Off. PPP

Def. Poss.

Def. PPP

Paulus-on

77.5

1.19

75

1.09

Paulus-off

3.5

1.14

5

1.20

Redick-on

79

1.20

78

1.08

Redick-off

2

.50

2

2.00

Dockery-on

53

1.17

54

1.00

Dockery-off

28

1.21

26

1.31

McRoberts-on

52

1.21

51.5

1.11

McRoberts-off

29

1.14

28.5

1.09

Williams-on

67.5

1.27

57.5

1.05

Williams-off

13.5

.74

12.5

1.36

Melchionni-on

29.5

1.12

29

1.07

Melchionni-off

51.5

1.22

51

1.12

Nelson-on

36.5

1.18

34

1.18

Nelson-off

44.5

1.19

46

1.04

Pocius-on

0

0

1

2.00

Pocius-off

81

1.19

79

1.09

Boykin-on

0

0

1

2.00

Boykin-off

81

1.19

79

1.09

Johnson-on

10

.60

9

1.44

Johnson-off

71

1.27

71

1.06

Team Totals

81

1.185

80

1.10



The biggest illustration out of this is something that should surprise absolutely no one - we really need either Williams or McRoberts on the court at all times. When one of them was on the court, we outscored Maryland 90-75. With both on the bench with a little foul trouble at the end of the first half, Maryland won 13-6. It'll be interesting to see how Coach K might choose to handle things if a similar situation arises in the tournament (a la UCONN 2004) - will he give Johnson minutes at the end of the first half and risk the other team going on a run, or will he leave one of the big guys out there and risk picking up a third foul? On that note, I was really surprised to see Johnson come in instead of Boateng. I like Johnson - he seems like a good guy, I played pickup against him when he was a freshman before he walked on (still happy he didn't dunk on me), but I can't possibly think that he was option #1 in that scenario. Though Boateng is a little raw, he has shown that he can be somewhat capable out there, and I would have thought that he'd be the emergency center if we got into foul trouble. If anyone knows something that I'm missing and cares to fill me in on it, send a little knowledge my way.


Tempo-free stats will be updated tomorrow, and I should be back to a somewhat regular posting schedule (at least for a while).

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