Select "print" from your browser's "File" menu.

Back to Post
Username Post: Breakout star
Chet Forte
Postdoc
Posts 2958
08-23-19 06:48 PM - Post#287179    

My prediction — Tai Bibbs. I see him as taking a giant leap and turning into an all Ivy talent.

Chet Forte
Postdoc
Posts 2958
08-23-19 06:51 PM - Post#287180    

And my second prediction. Smith will be fully recovered, Tape will be the best big man in the league, Stefanini will be a POY candidate, and we will be a playoff team.

PennFan10
Postdoc
Posts 3578
08-23-19 08:46 PM - Post#287181    

Bold. Tape will have to pass 4 bigs who were all better than him last year and all return. If only that happens, the Lions will be a playoff team. If the other things happen, definitely a playoff team and not 4th place.
HARVARDDADGRAD
Postdoc
Posts 2685
08-24-19 12:52 AM - Post#287182    

Columbia can be a playoff team. Period.
Size & scoring.
Please just shorten the games vs Harvard.
Chet Forte
Postdoc
Posts 2958
08-24-19 10:35 AM - Post#287184    

Tape over the last half of the Ivy season was one of the two best pure centers in the IL. He and the kid from Princeton were both very good. Unusual combination of skills for a 6’10” athlete.

Chet Forte
Postdoc
Posts 2958
08-24-19 10:37 AM - Post#287185    

Tape over the last half of the Ivy season was one of the two best pure centers in the IL. He and the kid from Princeton were both very good. Unusual combination of skills for a 6’10” athlete.

Chet Forte
Postdoc
Posts 2958
08-24-19 10:38 AM - Post#287186    

Love f those Harvard games. Looking forward to the two fastest PGs in the IL going head to head assuming Mike Smith is 100%

HARVARDDADGRAD
Postdoc
Posts 2685
08-24-19 11:43 AM - Post#287187    

Prefer they be on Saturday, not Friday. Columbia lost the following night at Dartmouth as Stefanini was hampered. Harvard lost to Cornell at home. Bassey didn’t play and Juzang was limited.

Both were impactful losses as both squads paid the price for the Lavietes marathon.

Likely cost Harvard outright regular season title and cost Columbia playoff hopes. If Lions could have maintained Friday’s level of play they should have beaten Dartmouth. That’s why I’m bullish on the Lions this season to compete/make the tournament.

Oh, and if Aiken doesn’t hit that shot, Stefanini doesn’t get banged up in further OT’s, Columbia beats Dartmouth and makes the tournament. Don’t overlook the Lions this year!
PennFan10
Postdoc
Posts 3578
08-24-19 01:42 PM - Post#287191    

  • Chet Forte Said:
Tape over the last half of the Ivy season was one of the two best pure centers in the IL. He and the kid from Princeton were both very good. Unusual combination of skills for a 6’10” athlete.



I don’t think you can count partial seasons. That’s not how statistics work as it doesn’t account for a whole bunch of variables. Counting the full round robin is a better picture.

The Bigs in IL play for ‘18-19:

AJ Brodeur 20.1 ppl, 9.3 reb, 3.5 ast, 1.6 blocks
Chris Knight 15.4 ppg, 5.7 reb, 2.3 ast, 1.1 blocks
R. Aririguzoh 13.3 ppg, 7.6 reb, 1.6 ast, 0.7 blocks
Patrick Tape 12.4 ppg, 6.5 reb, 1.9 ast, 1.9 blocks

You can argue Tape was 3rd or 4th best among this group. If you add Choh, who really isn’t a center but played the 5 for Brown much of the time, he would be 2nd or 3rd on this list. Lewis didn’t play as much in conference play and would be 5th in this group (10.1 ppg, 5.6 reb, 1.5 blocks)
cc66
Postdoc
Posts 2201
08-24-19 08:20 PM - Post#287193    

Full season stats are generally the best, except when someone comes on strongly as Tape did for his last six games, when he scored between 14 and 19 pts every game and ended up averaging 16.3 ppg. for the length of that run. If the issue is performance over the season, then you're right. If, on the hand, the issue is standing at the season's end as an indicator of what might happen in 2019-20, then Chet is.
PennFan10
Postdoc
Posts 3578
08-25-19 01:49 AM - Post#287195    

No. That’s not how stats work. You can’t subjectively take subsets of numbers and consider them predictive. Especially when you are effectively reducing the sample size. More data is always better than less data.
cc66
Postdoc
Posts 2201
08-25-19 10:08 AM - Post#287198    

On the contrary, when the subset is 6 consecutive games at the end of the season that exhibit the same consist pattern, you can and should take them as predictive.
palestra38
Professor
Posts 32682
08-26-19 09:39 AM - Post#287206    

While I like Tape, saying that statistics in meaningless playing out the string games are more imdicative than full season stats is ridiculous.


But it doesn't matter what we think--let's see how he does this season against some very strong upperclass opponents.
HARVARDDADGRAD
Postdoc
Posts 2685
08-26-19 11:07 AM - Post#287211    

Looks like a key for Tape is staying out of foul trouble. He fouled out of 3 of the 5 prior games before managing better in those final 6 games - 4 of which were against the Ivy Tournament teams. His rebounding numbers dropped in those final 6 games. I noticed that Chris Lewis' was a lot less aggressive on rebounds last year, and I suspected that this intentionally a way to avoid picking up fouls. With more height and depth in 2019-20, Tape should benefit in that way as well.

Tape hit 66.7% of his shots on the year, and is a decent foul shooter. If he finds his groove and against some matchups he can be a very efficient weapon.

Can't defend the last second trey from 40 feet though!
PennFan10
Postdoc
Posts 3578
08-26-19 11:23 AM - Post#287213    

The double pump, last second trey is what you meant to say.
HARVARDDADGRAD
Postdoc
Posts 2685
08-26-19 11:30 AM - Post#287214    

Agreed.

Actually, Bryce only fit beneath an elevated 6'9" center. Ironic luck.
cc66
Postdoc
Posts 2201
08-26-19 12:11 PM - Post#287216    

Meaningless seems a bit much. At least some of the games were against teams seeking a position in the tournament, and in bifurcated season, it just happens that his six games were when he finished strong.
palestra38
Professor
Posts 32682
08-26-19 12:54 PM - Post#287220    

I don't mean that the games were meaningless as much as his numbers don't reflect a game where his team is likely to be this year (I see CU as much stronger than last year) with Smith back and some young guys with a year of experience in them. Thus, I think the extrapolation is not likely to reflect a full season under much different circumstances. That's probably good for Columbia.
Chet Forte
Postdoc
Posts 2958
08-26-19 02:20 PM - Post#287223    

I think Brodeur is certainly an excellent player, but I think of him as a 4 rather than a 5. I think of the other big men as 5s. So in drawing my comparison I did not have Brodeur in mind. As far as Tape as compared to the P and H big men, I would put Lewis third in that group. As far as pure athletic upside I would go with Tape.

palestra38
Professor
Posts 32682
08-26-19 02:47 PM - Post#287224    

Well, he plays center at Penn. I'll agree that Tape is bigger, but they play head to head.
Columbia 37P6
Postdoc
Posts 2163
08-26-19 09:45 PM - Post#287230    

My expectation is that senior transfer Smoyer will make an immediate favorable impact on Columbia Basketball. We finally have some depth up front with Tape, Iweke, Brumant, Smoyer and the three freshman bigs. I'm excited by our prospects for a highly successful season.
SomeGuy
Professor
Posts 6391
09-01-19 01:00 PM - Post#287334    

Yes, my unhelpful point on this is that either camp could be right. Plenty of guys are capable of having a run. There are slices of Chris Lewis’ career where he looked better than Tape’s late season run. At a different position, Nate Hickman is a guy who played like a lead guard for a while, but lacked the consistency and ability to adjust necessary to do it over the long haul. But other guys flip the switch at some point and it just stays on. We’ll find out which one Tape is.
PennFan10
Postdoc
Posts 3578
09-01-19 09:51 PM - Post#287346    

Tape was not consistent over a full Ivy round robin. He played well down the stretch. He will have to prove it every game if he wants to be considered in the top tier. He can’t go 18-12 3 games and then foul out with 6 pts and 2 reb followed by 18-12 again.
Chet Forte
Postdoc
Posts 2958
09-02-19 07:48 AM - Post#287349    

Tape was foul prone until the second half of the Ivy season. Then he seemed to put it all together. What makes him so tantalizing is that he is 6’10” but unlike most big men moves like he is a SF. He is unusually athletic for a man is size and can run the court. So if he continues his upward trend he can be a very, very good player. To me, the other issue for him is being more consistent in finishing around the rim. PS on Brodeur; I had thought that Wang was playing the traditional 5 and Brodeur was playing the 4.

Stuart Suss
PhD Student
Posts 1439
09-02-19 11:21 AM - Post#287360    

Just to stir the pot on this discussion . . .

The individual efficiency statistics which I post each year have Patrick Tape ranked 4th in the league in conference-only games.
Mike Porter
Postdoc
Posts 3614
Mike Porter
09-02-19 02:15 PM - Post#287369    

Stu - interesting that all of Top 5 players are bigs
Stuart Suss
PhD Student
Posts 1439
09-02-19 02:39 PM - Post#287370    

Mike, box score metrics place a high value on rebounds. So, rebounders (usually bigs) tend to rank higher than perimeter players. To be fair, players should be compared against others at their same position.

Box score metrics can only weigh factors for which a box score number exists. A player can do many good things on a basketball court for which no box score number exists. On the ball defense is merely one such example.

A deep, well-balanced team will share the wealth (points and rebounds). So co-champion Harvard had nobody ranked in the top 15, but 5 of the next 11 and 8 of the next 23.

These numbers don't prove that Patrick Tape was the 4th best player in league regular season games last year. They do refute the suggestion that he is undervalued.

SomeGuy
Professor
Posts 6391
09-02-19 10:50 PM - Post#287384    

Not sure what you saw with Wang that seemed 5 like. He’s more of a perimeter player than Brodeur. He’s also not as good an interior defender, although AJ generally would draw the tougher assignment between the two, whether that was the 5 or the 4.

I know you are super high on Tape. While he is athletic for his size, most Ivies have a guy of like size and athleticism (including Wang for Penn, who is athletic enough that he isn’t even a center).
PennFan10
Postdoc
Posts 3578
09-03-19 12:29 PM - Post#287389    

Max was the 5 and AJ the 4 last year when those two played. Max guarded Tape when he was in the game (21 and 27 min) against Columbia. AJ guarded him most other times. AJ played the 5 when he was the only big on the floor, otherwise he was a 4 (which I define for defensive purposes).
PennFan10
Postdoc
Posts 3578
09-03-19 12:41 PM - Post#287391    

  • Stuart Suss Said:
Just to stir the pot on this discussion . . .

The individual efficiency statistics which I post each year have Patrick Tape ranked 4th in the league in conference-only games.



Stu, maybe you should run this analysis for just the last 6 games of the Ivy slate as it seems that's all that matters for the purposes of this discussion.
Stuart Suss
PhD Student
Posts 1439
09-03-19 04:17 PM - Post#287400    

"Chet Forte" is invited to give me all of Patrick's numbers from the final 6 Ivy games. I will plug them into the spreadsheet and see if the results are significantly different from the full Ivy season numbers.


mrjames
Professor
Posts 6062
09-03-19 04:50 PM - Post#287401    

If you go to Bart's site, you can filter down for any span of games and see metrics like Box +/-, Points Per Game Above Replacement (at that usage rate), etc.

http://www.barttorvik.com/playerstat.php?link=y&am...

Patrick Tape did have a very strong end to the season - certainly if you look at just those six games, but also if you look at the last couple months. While I have my own thoughts on what "predictive" means in this context, what's more important here is that the quality of the bigs in this league is extremely high. Between Brodeur, Aririguzoh, Bruner, Atkinson, Lewis, Knight and Tape, that's seven bigs where the seventh on that list is still really, really good.

I think if I had to take two from that list, I'd probably take Brodeur and Knight, but I'd be happy with any combination of the seven.



Copyright © 2004-2012 Basketball U. Terms of Use for our Site and Privacy Policy are applicable to you. All rights reserved.
Basketball U. and its subsidiaries are not affiliated in any way with any NCAA athletic conference or member institution.
FusionBB™ Version 2.1 | ©2003-2007 InteractivePHP, Inc.
Execution time: 0.214 seconds.   Total Queries: 15   Zlib Compression is on.
All times are (GMT -0500) Eastern. Current time is 10:27 AM
Top