LIU Scouting Report

[Hey Adrien!]

LIU: 1-7
Kenpom Rating: 352 out of 363​

Best wins:

• No wins over D1 teams
• Best teams they lost to:
  • 48-89 to Utah
  • 58-95 to Marquette
  • 68-95 to St. John’s
  • 64-97 to Towson
  • 64-84 to UMass Lowell

OFFENSE: 351st in efficiency

• 98th in offensive tempo
• 141st in FTA/FGA ratio
• 338th in 3PA/FGA: Only ~29.1% of FGAs from deep
• All other metrics ranked 250th or lower
• Only two players average 1.0 3PM (Maletic and Burns)

DEFENSE: 322nd in efficiency

• 5th in quickest opponent tempo (average possession length 15.7 seconds)
• 154th in opponent 3p% (32.7%)
• 159th in non-steal TO% (9.7%)
• Almost all other metrics ranked 300th or worse

A Look at the Roster

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LIU was subject to a weird offseason when they fired Derek Kellogg (the former UMass coach, who is now back at UMass under Frank Martin) just days before July and replaced him with G-League Ignite director Rod Strickland.

Back to basketball, LIU is a bad team, but their roster construction is interesting with most of their lineups lacking true guards:

Amongst their best players, Marko Maletic is a knockout shooter while 6’6 207 RJ Greene is the team’s de facto point guard and also their best rim attacker (6.1 FTAs per game). Jacob Johnson is probably their most well-rounded player.

Their lineups kinda look like UConn lineups, so at the very least LIU is an interesting tune up to prep more positionless teams like Villanova.

 

[THC]

Sharks by 7

 

[Apollo]

Yikes, this one could get ugly fast.
@Hey Adrien! As always, great work. Appreciate you doing these.

 

[HuskyHawk]

This would finally be time for Springs and the two new internationals to get some run.

 

[elmcityboy]

wow! pretty sure derek kellogg and dan hurley are really close friends. that's why i figured uconn scheduled LIU two years in a row. if they fired him last-minute, i have to think hurley is gonna be out to avenge his pal.

either way, this will be an absolute slaughter. would like to see apostolos and richie get some run.

 

[Get a Job]

How wild would it be if they beat us?

 

[UConNick]

wow! pretty sure derek kellogg and dan hurley are really close friends. that's why i figured uconn scheduled LIU two years in a row. if they fired him last-minute, i have to think hurley is gonna be out to avenge his pal.

either way, this will be an absolute slaughter. would like to see apostolos and richie get some run.

They are! The wives did a podcast together last year that was quite fun. Think it’s unfortunately dormant this year.

 

[CL82]

How wild would it be if they beat us?

Don’t do that.

 

[CL82]

They are! The wives did a podcast together last year that was quite fun. Think it’s unfortunately dormant this year.

It was actually pretty funny and vaguely interesting.

 

[Rocktheworld]

God bless you OP

If this thread doesn’t display your dedication, I’m not sure what else would. Of all the games you could have taken off on doing a deep dive into stats and match-ups, this would be it. And yet, here you are.

 

[businesslawyer]

This would finally be time for Springs and the two new internationals to get some run.

I'd be much more concerned about using the game to get Alleyne and Diarra out of their shooting slumps.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I'm guessing this is the game where Andrew Hurley sets a career high for minutes played.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Unreal color scheme for that school's unis. Best thing I can say about them.

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

All i care about is no one getting injured. Get an early lead and then give the starters a rest. Give Netwon, Alleyne, Diarra and Karaban a chance to gain their confidence back. I think Hurley should grade the game with a curve, if LIU is able to score more than 50 or so points, consider it a let down/loss, just to keep it interesting.

 

[Icehawk]

God bless you OP

If this thread doesn’t display your dedication, I’m not sure what else would. Of all the games you could have taken off on doing a deep dive into stats and match-ups, this would be it. And yet, here you are.

I was almost expecting to see "They're bad." and nothing else

 

[Chin Diesel]

I'd be much more concerned about using the game to get Alleyne and Diallo out of their shooting slumps.

Alleyne, yes.

I'll assume you mean Diarra. And no, I don't want him doing anything which encourages him to shoot more. Learn how to run the offense and set the table for others. And be a dogged dog on defense. Show him tapes of Ricky Moore and Taliek Brown.

 

[UCLJ0211]

If we played our walk ons the whole game, would it still be a win? What would be the final score?

 

[Kenny11]

This should be a brutal spanking. I hope springs and the Greek play real minutes, like in the first half

 

[August_West]

Definite Trap game .

I’m concerned

 

[ucp990411]

Now I’m nervous. Won’t sleep tonight

 

[NJHoops]

They’ll win by a bunch, but you don’t approach the game like it’s some kind of exhibition game. Don’t change the approach, don’t change up rotations to get the end of the bench in early. They have a full week after this until their next game, and you don’t let up when your next one is a conference game.

 

[Doctor Hoop]

This is what’s known as a tune up game. Work on offenseive sets, try out some different defensive options, and try some different player combos and see how they work together.

 

[I Bleed Blue]

Unreal color scheme for that school's unis. Best thing I can say about them.

Agreed. Sweet combo

 

[HooperScooper]

They’ll win by a bunch, but you don’t approach the game like it’s some kind of exhibition game. Don’t change the approach, don’t change up rotations to get the end of the bench in early. They have a full week after this until their next game, and you don’t let up when your next one is a conference game.

With the nonconference finale against Long Island on Saturday before Big East play begins at Butler on Dec. 17, Hurley wants to see improvement in those areas.

“(I want to see) a relentlessness to our defensive mentality. Being in all the right spots, not out-talenting our opponent but playing a really outstanding all-around game,” he said. “And cleaning the obvious issues that we’ve had turning the ball over, but really a sustained, full 40-minute relentless effort of execution and selflessness from the group, because that’s what it takes to win conference games.

“This is a much, much different animal that’s approaching.”

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[HuskyHawk]

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Agreed. Sweet combo

I’m more a fan of the name Sharks. Underutilized.

 

[HuskyHawk]

If we played our walk ons the whole game, would it still be a win? What would be the final score?

No. But we could sit the starting 5 and win most likely.

 

[gtcam]

If UConn is up by 30 in the 2nd half and Dan Hurley insists on playing AS, Hawk and DC, I won't believe it but that is his MO the past two years
He needs to get Springs, Alleyne and Diara some serious burn in this game. Newton could also rediscover his game.
No need to risk an injury to the top players.

 

[kobebeanbryant]

how much do we have to win by to maintain our kenpom ranking?

 

[MTBingNinja]

This would finally be time for Springs and the two new internationals to get some run.

And Sanogo and Clingan on the floor at the same time

 

[I Bleed Blue]

This is what’s known as a tune up game. Work on offenseive sets, try out some different defensive options, and try some different player combos and see how they work together.

Totally. I would like to see Alleyne get some extra run. Want to see his shooting get back to normal. And maybe try Adama and Don out together for a bit. Probably not a viable combo most of the time but worth trying. I also hope Springs gets decent minutes too.