Neitzel, Sherman, Izzo, and Coffee Talk
kj on Jul 20th 2008
Drew Neitzel’s numbers in the Timberwolves’ final two summer league games:
Saturday: 6 points on 3-9 shooting, zero assists, and 2 turnovers in 20 minutes of an 81-67 loss.
Sunday: 14 points on 6-11 shooting, 3 assists, and 1 turnover in 18 minutes of a 111-91 win.
At least Neitzel finished with a strong showing. In a story [...]
Friday Quick Hits
kj on Jul 18th 2008
Another disappointing stat line for Neitzel: 2 points, zero assists, 2 turnovers. The Timberwolves did finally win a game.
Michael Jordan’s son, Marcus, is interested in being a Spartan. He’s 6′2″ and currently rated a 3-start prospect in the 2009 class.
Ohio State gets a transfer of the 7-foot variety from UAB.
Luke Winn predicts that Purdue will [...]
Have we always turned the ball over this much?
kj on Jul 17th 2008
Thursday Links
Good news for those of us that will be driving down to the MSU-UNC game at Ford Field after work on Wednesday, December 3: The start time is 9:15, so we’ll have extra time to get down there. The game will be broadcast on ESPN. The other top-notch match-up is Duke-Purdue. That game will [...]
Drew Neitzel: Present and Past
kj on Jul 15th 2008
The Timberwolves’ summer league team played its first game last night. Neitzel scored 10 points on 4-5 FG shooting (all 2-pointers), including 2-2 on 3-pointers, in 14 minutes. On the downside, he had zero assists and turned the ball over two times.
Someone named Pooh Jeter, from St. Vincent College the University of Portland, was apparently [...]
Billy Packer is out
kj on Jul 14th 2008
Apparently, the executives at CBS finally got around to reading the Big Ten Wonk’s treatise on how maddening Billy Packer is to us college basketball junkies. The Miami Herald is reporting that Packer is being relieved of his lead announcing duties and will be replaced by Clark Kellogg (hat tip to Spartan Dan, and Awful [...]
Bonus scatter plots: Wisconsin and Purdue
kj on Jul 14th 2008
To get a better sense how individual offensive ratings and usage percentages fit together, here are scatter plots for the top two teams in the Big Ten this past season. Note that the vertical axis is recalibrated based on the approximate average team offensive efficiency figure for both teams (108.9 for Wisconsin; 105.0 for Purdue).
The [...]
Technical Difficulties
kj on Jul 12th 2008
Apparently, network maintenance my web hosting service underwent last night caused this site to go haywire for half a day. For a while, I’m sure visitors were shocked to be redirected from this address to a site about a reality TV show being broadcast in the Pacific islands.
Anyway, things appear to be back up and [...]