mrjames
Professor
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Loc: Montclair, NJ
Reg: 11-21-04
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03-27-19 04:52 PM - Post#282896
In response to SRP
While it was fun watching Noah turn the ball over on 3-in-10 possessions and Juzang do so on 1-in-4 in non-conference play, I'll take their respective 19.5 and 15.5 rates in conference play alongside Aiken.
We got to see two months of those guys initiating the offense, and it resulted in a hail of turnovers. Also, everyone's making it sound like Harvard's offense was all balance until Bryce came along. That's fundamentally not true - the vast majority of Harvard's pre-Bryce games had a player see more than half the team's minutes and post a usage rate in the 30s. The results were, umm, not great Bob:
MIT - Kirkwood, 32% usage, 91 ORAT
Northeastern - (balance)
UMass - Kirkwood, 36% usage, 77 ORAT
URI - Lewis, 30% usage, 75 ORAT
USF - Kirkwood, 30% usage, 77 ORAT
St. Mary's - (balance)
Holy Cross - (balance)
Siena - Bassey, 35% usage, 93 ORAT
UVM - (balance)
GW - Bassey, 41% usage, 99 ORAT (Kirkwood did do a 126 on 29% usage)
Mercer - Kirkwood, 30% usage, 102 ORAT
UNC - Johnson, 30% usage, 32 ORAT
Dart1 - Lewis, 37% usage, 84 ORAT
In his 17 Ivy plus NIT games, Bryce used 30% of possessions in 14 and had half of those above 100 and four more in the 90s. It wasn't that Bryce flipped this offense from a balanced one to one that relied upon a high-usage creator, it's just that he supplanted the "high-usage-by-committee" from the non-conf with a consistent high-usage producer.
Next year better be different, or else Harvard isn't going to be the team most expect. But I think the commentary about what should have happened this year is ignorant of what was actually happening this year.
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