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Message: [QUOTE="Hey Adrien!, post: 4460362, member: 5787"] [CENTER][SIZE=6][B]LIU: 1-7 Kenpom Rating: 352 out of 363[/B][/SIZE][/CENTER] [B]Best wins:[/B] [LIST] [*]No wins over D1 teams [*]Best teams they lost to: [LIST] [*]48-89 to Utah [*]58-95 to Marquette [*]68-95 to St. John’s [*]64-97 to Towson [*]64-84 to UMass Lowell [/LIST] [/LIST] [B]OFFENSE: 351st in efficiency[/B] [LIST] [*]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) [/LIST] [B]DEFENSE: 322nd in efficiency[/B] [LIST] [*]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 [/LIST] [CENTER][SIZE=6][B]A Look at the Roster [ATTACH type="full"]81723[/ATTACH][/B][/SIZE] [/CENTER] 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: [IMG]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/XhsKsStExlud1ksoT7s1p3wxlBAJ35sOAmCoaCHhppI4XBQaAxGgi6YyuBe4SFpc8fB7QAOV9GQuB6B6N33PQBVeW33QjDxDtA30YZNzOI0x431F6D7-00CgUr54gioy3a7jd7JOJCu6WWL1JAeDUS6AhzKCI19l9lcgN1w8jONKZ6zDZMzfeZdAbL9REg[/IMG] 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. [/QUOTE]

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