Bonus Game Recap
Posted by kj on Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Since MSU didn’t play a game mid-week, I thought I’d take a quick look at last night’s intra-state tilt between Michigan and Oakland. [Insert snarky joke about playing for bragging rights as the second best college basketball team in Michigan here.] You’ll recall this is the same Oakland team that took MSU down to the wire before losing by four points a couple weeks ago.
The Wolverines defeated the Grizzlies handily, 103-87. Official box score here. This was a pretty fast-paced game–77 possessions. But Michigan’s 103 points are still hugely impressive, equating to 1.34 points per possession. They shot the ball well from all areas: 64.3% on 2-pointers, 41.2% on three-pointers, and 87.5% on a whopping 32 free throw attempts. Everyone kicked in, with the bench contributing 31 points. Hence the glowing AA News recap of their offensive performance.
If I were a Wolverine fan what would concern me is that they still didn’t show much on the defensive end. Oakland’s 87 points still equate to a healthy 1.13 points per possession. The Grizzlies didn’t shoot very well (46.2% on 2-pointers, 33.3% on 3-pointers), but they took a whopping 76 shots from the field–plus 21 free throw attempts. This was mainly a function of not turning the ball over. They gave it up on just 8 possessions for a microscopic turnover percentage of 10.4%. If they’d connected on more of their 24 3-point attempts, they might have approached 100 points, too.
So the preliminary verdict on the Wolverines remains unchanged: pretty good potential on offense, but that 1-3-1 zone is a work in progress.
The Big Ten Chronicle has links to reports on other Big Ten action last night.
Additional Ginsu-knife-like bonus: I’ve updated my MSU individual tempo-free stat spreadsheet. Glossary here.
MSU TFS Spreadsheet (12/13/07) (PDF)
I won’t do a full rundown, but I do want to highlight Durrell Summers’ stats:
- PPWS: 1.32
- 3pt%: 66.7%
- FT%: 92.9%
- OR%: 13.7%
- DR%: 15.3%
Those are some pretty impressive shooting and rebounding stats–albeit in fairly limited minutes (13.7 per game). It will be interesting to see if he can sustain numbers in this neighborhood when/if his minutes go up with Chris Allen out for at least one game.
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spartanproduceron 13 Dec 2007 at 7:55 pm 1do we need to start a pool on when Gray gets his first assist, I know he’s a guy who’s job is basically to finish around the basket, but shouldn’t he get an assist by default at some point?? Wouldn’t he randomly throw a pass to someone who makes a shot??
Also interesting the minutes played is even better than Izzo talked about in preseason, he talked about playing Neitzel, Walton, etc. 32 mins a game and their several minutes below that (a bit surprising given that we haven’t had as many blowouts as other top teams). Of course I’m sure this directly ties into how well we’ve played the last ten mins of the last three games.
In the weasel's denon 14 Dec 2007 at 12:00 pm 2OU’s defense is pretty shoddy. Southern Utah handled them on OU’s home court. I know the AA media was getting enthused over this victory but they won’t have much to cheer about the rest of the season.