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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 4660142, member: 1329"] PORPAGATU! - 3.9 (14th in B1G) RAPM - +4.5 (30th in B1G) BPR - (-1.18) (114th in B1G) BPM - 10.4 (4th in B1G) [IMG]https://i.ibb.co/1Qs6D3H/rutgers.png[/IMG] That BPR number made me do a double-take, so I had to dig a little deeper. His on/off splits are surprisingly terrible for how elite his efficiency was at an above average usage%. Against top 200 teams, Rutgers' offense was 7 points worse with him on court than off, a startling number. So what was going on? Digging into the numbers, there wasn't anything too drastic. Their effective FG% was the same with him on and off, which means the difference lies in the other factors. Their offensive rebounding was a lot better with him off the court. Most of the difference comes from Big Cliff getting 16% oreb with him off, and 10% with him on. The team got to the line a little less and shot a little worse/less frequent at the rim when he was in, but he personally shot 70% at the rim (on low volume), an absurdly high number. Spencer personally took a bunch of 2pt Js at poor efficiency, but the team actually took less 2pt Js and more 3s when he was in, so that's a good thing. It seems partially that his oft replacement Derek Simpson put a lot more pressure on the rim with drives, which presumably led to more help D and freed up Cliff for putbacks. And looking even deeper, Paul Mulcahy drove to the rim a lot more often with Spencer out, for whatever reason. You'd think that Spencer spacing would open up more lanes for Mulcahy, but Mulcahy probably had more on ball opportunities without Spencer. A lot of it is just statistical noise (McConnell and Simpson shooting a lot worse from 3 with Spencer in), so I'm not too worried about it. [/QUOTE]

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