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No kidding. I re-watched the last 5 minutes of regulation and all of overtime. I tried to pay attention to the whistles and I’d love for their fans to call out any specific calls (or no calls) they disagree with. I really don’t see many, if any, questionable calls. They were playing highly aggressive defense whenever Lovering and/or Ausar were…[Read more]

I use this site, click on any header to sort on that stat

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Good stuff.

Would be interesting to see minutes per game added to the side of BPM in your list. This would highlight the underuse of certain high impact players and overuse of certain low impact players.

I hear ya, good point. And to this point in the season, the BPM looks like this:

Keanu: 8.2
Lawson: 7.8
Wahlin: 5.2
Mason: 5.2
Mongo: 5.3
Gabe: 3.3
Ezra: 2.2
Miro: 2.1
Hunter: 1.9
Keller: 0.7

And the DBPM still has Jake, Laswon, Mongo, & Keanu in the top 4 spots, but Mason and Gabe fall down the list and Miro & Hunter jump up.

So my question…[Read more]

just think if Utah can make free throws, they win by twenty,

if Utah had 2 to 3 players score in double digits they win by twenty.

again Dawes sit the bench most of the game ! props to Auser and Lawson.

Smith coaching needs improvement at best.

speaking of little bitches, I have been watching Utah / byu games for 40 plus years, they have always had little B;s on the team, this year is d Hall and K Knell cry babies at best.

I don’t mean to pitch Erickson, he is just a guy. But he has got his FT% up to the high 80s this year. He did airball a FT but the game ended with the 3 he hit and 3 for 4 at the line in the last minutes for out last points. Not all league but no other all league guys showed up to end the game. By rule, I gota say thanks to anyone that helps get a…[Read more]

Smith and Ainge forgot to ask Young if he could actually Coach basketball.

Early reviews on him are not good.

Yes. This! It’s like our guards and coaches realized the physicality of the BIG 12 doesn’t allow guards to just pass the ball around the arc. The ball needs to go inside to open up the outside.

It’s interesting how our recent win streak has come about as we’ve gotten more aggressive inside and made a conscious effort to get the ball into the low block. Through most of the non-conference schedule we lived and died by the three – we were the top 3-point team in the country for a while. Now, obviously it really helped our inside presence…[Read more]

This is the second time that I’ve seen Erickson airball a FT. He did it last year as well. I’m almost 60 years old and have been watching organized basketball since the mid-70s and had never seen another player do that, either in the pros or college.

The FT shooting was frustrating, no doubt. Not an excuse but several players did get gassed. FT% in the first half was acceptable, but not great. Second half it dropped but not much. But the OT period we were 4-12 which is god awful while the Y was 0-1 in OT. Still, for the game Utah was 53% vs 40% for the Y. We noticed every FT in overtime and…[Read more]

The stats are all a big part of understanding but not all. Not in any box score / stat sheet are all the little things specific to position and switching, on both offense and defense. Coaches like for example Rick, can get very specific about what they want players to do. They practice and go over the concepts that are not so much for every coach…[Read more]

The Keita I saw last night was essentially no different than the Keita I saw during the 22-23 season. That should tell you all you need to know. In today’s version of professional basketball, at any level, there’s little to no role for a player that has zero offensive game.

I’ve watched the NBA and NCAA for almost 50 years and have seen many guys like Keita. He’s what’s known as a “gold brick”, essentially a guy who looks the part and has all of the physical measurables but, unfortunately, doesn’t have the requisite skills or innate basketball IQ to deliver what’s expected of him. I hope he’s taking BYU for the…[Read more]

Jim, my view is that unless you already have a solid, veteran team, these “one and done” guys won’t be able to move the needle much. You certainly won’t be able to win the NCAAs if your roster is composed primarily of one and done players. BYU supposedly has two lottery picks and another player with 1st RD grades. Yet, what I saw last night on…[Read more]

Good answer…thanks.