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(January 6th) It is remarkable the extent to which Silas Demary’s three-point shot has gone from last year being his biggest weakness to this year being a strength.  He’s by no means an elite shooter – the volume simply isn’t there for that – but he makes what he does take at a sufficiently high […]

(January 6th) Initially we talked about the lack of a clear single-skill strength with Aaron Scott, but as the season has moved forward, it’s become more and more clear that his ability to make plays on the ball from the defensive side is, in fact, an elite skill.  In the time since the last profile,

(January 6th) In our first week of player profiles, we primarily focused on Jamir Watkins’ ability to do everything at a very high level, something that is still true on this profile. We would only make two slight additions to what we said previously. First, the shot, which we said was an issue in the

(January 6th) Very little has changed on Jordan Gainey’s profile over the last few weeks.  He’s still seeing good returns on the jump shot, is still showing out as an elite defender, and is still providing a little bit of extra value as a playmaker and finisher.  The primary changes since the last profile are

(January 6th) On the last player profile, Rasheer Fleming’s across the board offensive effectiveness was the primary focus.  In the 5 games since, Fleming has only bettered most of those offensive numbers, and has risen to the point that he has, effectively, a rounding error’s worth of peers on that end.  Even the FTr number

(January 6th) Bennett Stirtz’s profile shows one of the most dominant players in college basketball – someone who is arguably the single best offensive player in the country (100th percentile OBPM) while also being an elite contributor on the defensive end (97th percentile). Usually, player statistics are limited by trade-offs.  The more you score for

(January 6th) The number we want to highlight on this profile is “shot possessions”.  This is, as you might assume, the total number of possessions that the player ends with a shot of some kind, whether FGA or FTA.  In it, Derkack has moved from the 44th percentile to the 51st percentile, indicating he is

(December 12th) The most important statistic on this page is the 42.1 next to minutes.  Unfortunately, the sample is too small to draw real conclusions based on any of the other numbers present, especially thinks like DBPM that need a much bigger sample to stabilize.  What numbers we do have for Carr are generally good. 

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(January 6th) This profile is, unquestionably, an improvement over the last one.  It basically retains all the strengths of the initial stretch of the season, posting the same elite assist and steal numbers, while cleaning up some of the early struggles with Saint not claiming enough volume for himself. The points are up – 22nd

(January 6th) It is legitimately hard to write about profiles that are this good with any kind of dynamism, because every single facet of the game in which Sorber participates is elite.  There are a few small changes like going from the 92nd percentile in rebounds to the 87th, and the turnover numbers have increased

(January 6th) If the running theme of Desmond Claude’s first player profile was that he very definitely knows who he is as a player, then this should just serve as more evidence of the same.  Every single sentence written in the initial profile for this year stands exactly as true of this one.  The slashing

(January 6th) In the last profile, we talked about how odd it was that Money Williams had been such an effective shot blocker for a guard but wasn’t also recording steals.  It’s very rare for havoc creator guards to get only blocks.  Well, since then, while Williams’ block rate has remained high, his steal rate

(January 6th) Alex Condon’s player profile is a good illustration of how statistics simply don’t happen in a vacuum.  Sure, a few of the numbers here are down from the first player profile.  Particularly, those related to scoring have gone down, with Condon dropping from the 95th percentile in points to the 84th.   Some of

(January 6th) Christ Essandoko played very brief minutes across 3 games since the last profile while extremely limited by a hamstring issue.  As a result, the “too small of a sample to draw meaningful conclusions” sample barely got any bigger.  Most of his numbers still sit in that 30th-80th percentile range that low minutes will

(November 30th) Some of Oso Ighodaro’s numbers are actually down this season – he’s averaging an AST% 7% lower than last season, and a BLK% 1.2% lower. And yet, all of his metrics that aggregate everything together are actually up – he’s 99th percentile in OPIPM, DPIPM, and the combination of the two, PIPM. Defensively,

(January 6th) This week, we’re going to specifically highlight Tarris Reed’s free-throw percentage.  Early in his college career, this was a major issue, to the point that hacking strategies were a concern.  So far this season, however, Tarris Reed ranks in the 80th percentile.  His performance at the line isn’t just not a concern –

(January 6th) In the initial profile of this season, Jackson McAndrew was taking a lot of threes, and he was making a lot of threes, but the efficiency was merely okay – ranking in the 52nd percentile.  Since then, while maintaining his extremely high attempt rate, McAndrew has shot 41.2% from three, to pull himself

(January 6th) The major difference between this profile and the last for Mackenzie Mgbako is in the block rate, which jumped from the 40th percentile up to the 70th.  This has come, not because of a single outlier game that is unlikely to be repeated, but by a stable set of six consecutive games with

(January 6th) John Blackwell’s profile this week is primarily a tale of two numbers.  First, his three-point percentage has dropped from an acceptable 64th percentile  down to the 29th percentile, a point at which we would be a bit concerned about presenting it to a team.  Part of this is because this write-up is being

(December 12th) If we were looking at Miles Rubin’s profile from last year, it would almost certainly be that of an elite defender, due in large part to elite rim protection, who does enough offensively to contribute by finishing well around the rim. This season, all of that is still true of Rubin.  He’s still