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Message: [QUOTE="Hey Adrien!, post: 4142398, member: 5787"] I'm weeding through the hot takes, moving onto the next game. Here's my scouting report for Marquette. As always, major credit to kenpom.com for all national rates quoted here: Roster Report: [LIST] [*]Greg Elliott has worked his way back to game shape (12.6 mpg in 7 games, but 20 ppg and 27 mpg in last two) so Shaka Smart has switched into an 8-man rotation with freshmen Stevie Mitchell, David Joplin and Emarion Ellis barely, if ever, seeing the floor. [*]Their lineups include: [LIST] [*]A timeshare between two offensively limited, 0 3PA centers. Kuath is their elite shot blocker (6.2b per 40). Both bigs are athletic. [*]Justin Lewis at the 4. (Uber-athletic OM Prosper spells Lewis and also plays a tiny bit of 3) [*]Three guards ranging from 6’3 180 (Elliott) to 6’5 205 (Morsell). 13% of the time, Prosper plays as their 3rd forward. [/LIST] [/LIST] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1639917772250.png"]71938[/ATTACH] [B]Offense - 105th KenPom[/B] [LIST] [*]Lewis (15.3) and Morsell (13.8) are their leading scorers. [*]In typical Shaka Smart fashion, the team is 3rd nationally in offense tempo (average offensive possession is 14.5 seconds) [*]They shoot a fun of threes. 45.4% of shots are from 3 (40th rate in nation), but they are not making their shots (31.8 3p%). [LIST] [*]I see this trending up with a healthy Greg Elliott back plus Tyler Kolek is shooting well below his rate from last year (21.8% vs 35.8% last year). [/LIST] [*]They do a good job getting to the line (64th nationally in FTA/FGA rate), thanks mostly to Lewis and Morsell (combined 106 FTA in 12 games). [*]64.8% of FGM are from dimes (5th rate in nation), which shows good team ball movement and a lack of iso in their game plan. [*]Awful offensive rebounding team. Their 22.7% O-Rebounding rate is 315th in the nation [LIST] [*](come on down, Sanogo/Whaley/Martin/Jackson)! [/LIST] [/LIST] [B]Defense - 61st in KenPom[/B] [LIST] [*]Darryl Morsell is the reigning Big Ten DPOY. Plus tough-as-nails defense w/o generating turnovers (1.1 combined blocks + steals). [*]I’ve already mentioned Kuath as their elite shot blocker (6.2b per 40). [*]The Havoc Pressure Defense Smart used in VCU is more of the thing of the past. It lives on at VCU, but Smart’s teams don’t generate turnovers like they used to. [LIST] [*]Currently, Marquette is 171st nationally in turnover rate and Smart had just one top-100 turnover rate season at Texas. [/LIST] [*]Pretty good interior defense. Opponents 2p% is 46.6% (87th in nation). [*]Their opponents shoot 61.4% from FT (5th in nation) and their FTA/FGA rate is the 202nd lowest in the league, which suggests they play “hack-a-[insert the poor shooting post player]” [*]They are not a good defensive rebounding team (189th nationally in defensive rebound rate). [/LIST] [B]Matchups I want to exploit[/B] [LIST] [*]Whaley is the perfect defensive matchup playing against Justin Lewis. He'll be super valuable on that end. [*]Assuming Sanogo plays, he returns with a relatively easy defensive assignment matched up with two underwhelming offensive centers. Watching Ed Freakin' Croswell score 11 points in 15 minutes last night had me pining for Sanogo so hard. If I'm Hurley, I try to play Sanogo 100% of the time when Ighodaro is on the floor and 100% of his rest when Kuath is on the floor. Kuath has never player more than 29 minutes in a game. [*]Morsell is a defensive stud, and I expect him to smother whoever he is guarding, but he can't guard all three of the guards we play with. I'm excited to see how we can open up opportunities for whoever Morsell is not guarding. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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