There's a cool website called hoop-explorer.com that allows you to look at any team's stats based on an infinite amount of queries, such as what does team A look like when player B is on or off the court, etc. Figured I'd look at it to see how we've changed in the two games since Leach went down.
For this exercise, I looked at our stats against the top 200 teams in the country to remove some of the garbage games, and also filtered out garbage time possessions.
So what jumps out here, keeping in mind that only 17% of possessions have come without the two players? Our defense has suffered greatly, as we are 2nd-worst in the country when it comes to opponents' eFG% (51.4% to 59.2%) and 3pt% (36.4% to 40.5%). We are also letting our opponents take significantly more 3s as a % of overall shots (38.7% to 43.8%), and somehow we have also let opponents shoot significantly better if they get to the rim (54.7% to 65.0%). On the upside, our turnover % has increased (19.3% to 22.1%) and our defensive rebounding has been lockdown (30.2% to 24.5%). But essentially if we aren't getting a turnover, teams are scoring at will.
On offense, we've actually improved a bit from an efficiency standpoint, though it is largely due to reducing our turnover rate (15.4% to 12.5%). We have a slight increase in eFG% (49.1% to 50.5%), driven by increases in our 2pt shooting% (48.1% to 50.8%) and getting more shots at the rim vs midrange. The bad is that our offensive rebounding has fallen off a lot (30.7% to 25.2%) and we get to the FT line even less than before (29.8% vs 25.6%). In conjunction with the lack of offensive rebounding, our ability to score off offensive rebounds or on transition opportunities has really tanked as well. Where we have improved our efficiency is on drives to the rim and backdoor cuts from the perimeter, and we have increased the number of post-up plays as well.
From an individual standpoint, here's what jumps out (again, small sample size caveat!):
Martinelli's usage rate goes from 26.2% with Brooks or Leach to 35.2% without both. Despite that increased usage, his shooting percentage is higher without them (48.7% to 50.8%), he gets significantly more rebounds (no surprise there, 6.7% to 11.9% on offense, 10.6% to 18.8% on defense), takes fewer 3s (19.7% to 12.9%) and midrange shots (47% to 41.9%) while doing a lot more himself instead of being assisted (48% assisted shots to 8% on midrange, 59% to 33% on layups). His defense has suffered though, unsurprisingly given the loss of the players and the overall team issues on defense.
Berry's usage rate has gone up, but just slightly (16% to 17.2%), though his shooting percentage has skyrocketed (46.8% to 62.5%) across the board. He's actually taking a smaller percentage of shots from 3 (68.3% to 56.3%) while his shooting percentage has gone from 36.1% to 44.4%. His 2pt shooting % has gone from 31.1% to 57.1% driven by creating off the dribble and shooting midrange shots.
Nicholson's usage has somehow gone down, from 12.4% to 9%, which may be driven by the fact that his offensive rebound rate has dropped from 10.1% to 5.1% and his FT rate has dropped from 92.6 to 50.0 though his FT% has gone from 54% to 75%.
Mullins has seen his performance improve quite a bit due to the increased playing time. He has cut his turnover rate from 15.8% to 5.1% despite the same usage rate, he gets to the line at a slightly higher rate (15.8 to 26.3 with his FT% going from 50% to 80%), though his shooting percentage has dropped quite a bit (61.8% to 47.4%) as he has taken more 3s (50% to 68.4%) and fewer shots at the rim (42.1% to 26.3%). His steal rate has improved from 1.2% to 3.1%, which is great, and he has also cut his fouls committed/40 in half (5.0 to 2.5).
Windham has also improved greatly, with his usage rate going from 13.3% to 23.1%, his shooting% going from 31.5% to 48.4% largely driven by an improvement in his 3pt shooting% going from 16.7% to 37.5%, his assist rate going from 10.1% to 25.5%, turnovers down from 20.5% to 12.2%, and fouls committed/40 down from 4.2 to 2.4.
Clayton, as has been mentioned, has been...bad. His usage rate is 27.6%, which is way too high, largely driven by his turnover rate of 22.7%, which is also just too high. His assist rate is good at 23.8%, but his shooting percentage is awful and he's a nightmare on defense.
Hunger...I guess his rebounding and blocked shots have improved in his limited minutes, but he is still an offensive black hole. Fitzmorris is not providing the offensive spark he had been in earlier games, and don't really have much to say about Gelo.
Anyway, just wanted to put some (a lot of) numbers out there on an off day.
For this exercise, I looked at our stats against the top 200 teams in the country to remove some of the garbage games, and also filtered out garbage time possessions.
| Lineup | Offense | Defense | eFG% O/D | TO% O/D | Rebounds O/D | FTRate O/D | 3pt Rate O/D | 3pt% O/D |
| With Brooks or Leach | 75th | 77th | 259th/203rd | 40th/82nd | 159th/215th | 278th/248th | 289th/193rd | 153rd/314th |
| Without both | 60th | 124th | 197th/363rd | 1st/15th | 306th/9th | 348th/333rd | 289th/49th | 190th/363rd |
| Lineup | 2pt% O/D | Midrange Rate O/D | Rim Rate O/D | Midrange% | Rim% | |||
| With Brooks or Leach | 285th/119th | 7th/115th | 349th/213th | 62nd/206th | 315th/93rd | |||
| Without both | 182nd/352nd | 20th/268th | 313th/261st | 8th/341st | 289th/350th |
So what jumps out here, keeping in mind that only 17% of possessions have come without the two players? Our defense has suffered greatly, as we are 2nd-worst in the country when it comes to opponents' eFG% (51.4% to 59.2%) and 3pt% (36.4% to 40.5%). We are also letting our opponents take significantly more 3s as a % of overall shots (38.7% to 43.8%), and somehow we have also let opponents shoot significantly better if they get to the rim (54.7% to 65.0%). On the upside, our turnover % has increased (19.3% to 22.1%) and our defensive rebounding has been lockdown (30.2% to 24.5%). But essentially if we aren't getting a turnover, teams are scoring at will.
On offense, we've actually improved a bit from an efficiency standpoint, though it is largely due to reducing our turnover rate (15.4% to 12.5%). We have a slight increase in eFG% (49.1% to 50.5%), driven by increases in our 2pt shooting% (48.1% to 50.8%) and getting more shots at the rim vs midrange. The bad is that our offensive rebounding has fallen off a lot (30.7% to 25.2%) and we get to the FT line even less than before (29.8% vs 25.6%). In conjunction with the lack of offensive rebounding, our ability to score off offensive rebounds or on transition opportunities has really tanked as well. Where we have improved our efficiency is on drives to the rim and backdoor cuts from the perimeter, and we have increased the number of post-up plays as well.
From an individual standpoint, here's what jumps out (again, small sample size caveat!):
Martinelli's usage rate goes from 26.2% with Brooks or Leach to 35.2% without both. Despite that increased usage, his shooting percentage is higher without them (48.7% to 50.8%), he gets significantly more rebounds (no surprise there, 6.7% to 11.9% on offense, 10.6% to 18.8% on defense), takes fewer 3s (19.7% to 12.9%) and midrange shots (47% to 41.9%) while doing a lot more himself instead of being assisted (48% assisted shots to 8% on midrange, 59% to 33% on layups). His defense has suffered though, unsurprisingly given the loss of the players and the overall team issues on defense.
Berry's usage rate has gone up, but just slightly (16% to 17.2%), though his shooting percentage has skyrocketed (46.8% to 62.5%) across the board. He's actually taking a smaller percentage of shots from 3 (68.3% to 56.3%) while his shooting percentage has gone from 36.1% to 44.4%. His 2pt shooting % has gone from 31.1% to 57.1% driven by creating off the dribble and shooting midrange shots.
Nicholson's usage has somehow gone down, from 12.4% to 9%, which may be driven by the fact that his offensive rebound rate has dropped from 10.1% to 5.1% and his FT rate has dropped from 92.6 to 50.0 though his FT% has gone from 54% to 75%.
Mullins has seen his performance improve quite a bit due to the increased playing time. He has cut his turnover rate from 15.8% to 5.1% despite the same usage rate, he gets to the line at a slightly higher rate (15.8 to 26.3 with his FT% going from 50% to 80%), though his shooting percentage has dropped quite a bit (61.8% to 47.4%) as he has taken more 3s (50% to 68.4%) and fewer shots at the rim (42.1% to 26.3%). His steal rate has improved from 1.2% to 3.1%, which is great, and he has also cut his fouls committed/40 in half (5.0 to 2.5).
Windham has also improved greatly, with his usage rate going from 13.3% to 23.1%, his shooting% going from 31.5% to 48.4% largely driven by an improvement in his 3pt shooting% going from 16.7% to 37.5%, his assist rate going from 10.1% to 25.5%, turnovers down from 20.5% to 12.2%, and fouls committed/40 down from 4.2 to 2.4.
Clayton, as has been mentioned, has been...bad. His usage rate is 27.6%, which is way too high, largely driven by his turnover rate of 22.7%, which is also just too high. His assist rate is good at 23.8%, but his shooting percentage is awful and he's a nightmare on defense.
Hunger...I guess his rebounding and blocked shots have improved in his limited minutes, but he is still an offensive black hole. Fitzmorris is not providing the offensive spark he had been in earlier games, and don't really have much to say about Gelo.
Anyway, just wanted to put some (a lot of) numbers out there on an off day.
