I generally think about numbers and basketball differently than a lot of people. @Panjandrum's post about projected improvement next year plus Wade's incredible offensive efficiency game vs Iowa State got me thinking about the core four this year and their best and worst games. I chose offensive rating as the measurement because in my opinion it does a great job of encompassing what players do to impact a game on the offensive end, factoring in points, shooting, offensive boards, turnovers and assists for the possessions that a player is on the floor. I also narrowed it down to only games vs kenpom top 100 opponents. Granted, going the tier game route similar to the NCAA would have been nice too, but this works. Dean, Barry, and X all have played 17 games and Kam has 10.
The left side has the top 20 individual games and the right side is the bottom 20 vs the kenpom top 100.
On the positive:
1) Dean owns Iowa State.
2) Barry and X have 6 of the top 20 individual games, Dean and Kam have 4.
3) X has the 2 best games against top competition (WVU, KU).
4) Having four guys capable of multiple 1.30 efficiency games against fairly good competition is a nice problem to have.
Note: I didn't include Diarra who would have 3 games on the list (1.39 vs OSU and 1.41 vs Baylor). Mawien's TCU game (1.40) would make it also.
On the negative:
1) Barry (6), X (6), and Kam (5) are much more prone to bad games than Dean (3).
2) Dean really has no dreadful games, his season low of .86 isn't good, but not near those sub 0.70 games that Barry, Kam, and X all have.
3) Its easy to see why Texas Tech and West Virginia destroyed us; only X had a decent game against either and over half (11) of our worst individual games are against those 2 teams.
The left side has the top 20 individual games and the right side is the bottom 20 vs the kenpom top 100.
On the positive:
1) Dean owns Iowa State.
2) Barry and X have 6 of the top 20 individual games, Dean and Kam have 4.
3) X has the 2 best games against top competition (WVU, KU).
4) Having four guys capable of multiple 1.30 efficiency games against fairly good competition is a nice problem to have.
Note: I didn't include Diarra who would have 3 games on the list (1.39 vs OSU and 1.41 vs Baylor). Mawien's TCU game (1.40) would make it also.
On the negative:
1) Barry (6), X (6), and Kam (5) are much more prone to bad games than Dean (3).
2) Dean really has no dreadful games, his season low of .86 isn't good, but not near those sub 0.70 games that Barry, Kam, and X all have.
3) Its easy to see why Texas Tech and West Virginia destroyed us; only X had a decent game against either and over half (11) of our worst individual games are against those 2 teams.
