No it is not. Advanced stats love Bouknight, so he is technically an improvement over anyone on the team. However, Vital is graded as one of the top 3 players on the team, so would do better to give Bouk someone else’s minutes.
People forget this. Hurley doesn't want to lose the guy, he's the senior and he came into the season thinking he's the leader. But he's only the 4th best guard on the team today. He's going to lose the spot soon enough.
Bouknight’s advanced stats are insanely good, but it’s not a material enough sample size to matter much yet. Still, he’s clearly extremely talented and deserves more minutes than he’s getting so far.
Bouknight’s sample size is too small to extrapolate like that. He’s clearly very good but will not stay at his impossibly high TS%. Let’s see where he ends up when his numbers become more stable before trying to plan out minutes for the rest of the season. I get where your head is at, but you can’t look at solely this year in a vacuum with just a 7 game sample.
Where does the team rank in causing TOs? Do statistics for defensive rebounds factor in turnovers?
Fair enough. I’d rather take some minutes from the players who are actually underperforming like Gilbert or Carlton (more small ball with Akok at the 5) and some from Polley too personally. The depth is a good problem to have. Hopefully Hurley will be comfortable in feeling out who has the hot hand too.
I mean there's no other way of putting it. He's been worse than expected. Not to say that won't change, but if it doesn't, then it's fair to play him fewer than 35 minutes. In fact, his last 2 games he played 27 and 24 minutes, so that might be his sweet spot. No shame in that, and it'll help keep him healthy.
We're 53rd in defensive TO% and we've given away 22nd lowest TO% offensively. Turnover margin actually might be the team's biggest strength so far (2nd chance points big too).
On the whole he has been significantly underperforming this year. Trending in the right direction recently, but let’s see if he can maintain that trajectory.
Has Akok played much at the 5?
Kenpom says only 7% of the time over the past 5 games, but that doesn’t include St. Joe’s where he played it a lot during our climb back into the game (if you remember, it was while we were pressing).
THX for the info. After the first 5 min I tried to forget the St Joe's game LOL was doing some work so wasn't following that closely
Do you happen to know our most used lineups and relative performance? Even if limited sample size it would be interesting to track.
All stuff you can see with a kenpom subscription ($20 a year and the perfect distraction at the office).
It seems it should. Every turnover is one more lost opportunity for a defensive rebound. Unless the statistic for defensive rebounding is determined on the percentage of failed shots and opportunities for rebounds. Is that the case?
Sorry, I misunderstood. It just takes every rebound in a game and designates it offensive and defensive. Turnovers are not factored in the denominator for OReb or DReb%; like you said that wouldn’t make sense.
