A few thoughts after running the numbers:
- Pitt won the game going away, 78-63, with ~66 possessions played. Hats off to Ken Pomeroy, who wasn't very far off with his prediction (76-66 in 66 possessions).
- For UConn, the narrative coming into the game was whether they were worthy of the #4 ranking, or if their reputation was a bit inflated by Kemba Walker's hot outside shooting touch. The answer appears to be the latter, as Walker struggled from outside tonight [3/11 3FG] while using fully 40% (!) of his team's possessions while he was on the court.
- A bit more on Walker: it's easy to rip a guy who scores 31 points on 27 shots and only has 2 assists, but you need to consider the context. Here is his shooting line for the game, compared to his teammates while he was on the floor:
The fact is that Kemba is actually a rational actor here - he's generally better off shooting than passing, at least for tonight.. Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A eFG% TS% Walker 31 7-16 3-11 8-11 43 48 Rest of team 27 6-18 1- 7 12-15 30 42
- If Walker is going to pass, his best options usually are Oriakhi, Lamb and Smith. Tonight, Oriakhi was plagued with fouls (and lousy defense) and couldn't stay on the floor while Roscoe Smith couldn't make a shot (much to the schadenfreude-licious delight of Hoya nation). Jeremy Lamb was about the only Husky that you could point to and say "Kemba should have passed him the ball more."
- Pittsburgh, meanwhile, looks as good as advertised. What I was really impressed with tonight was how well they shared the ball. The top six players in possessions played (5 starters plus Woodall) all used between 20 and 25% of available possessions, and only Gilbert Brown had much of an off night on offense.
- The Panthers won in spite of being out-rebounded by the Huskies, and only gathering (gasp) 41% of their own missed shots. Only Texas was previously able to pull off that trick against Pitt this season, and the rebounding margin [40.7% - 47.6% = -6.9%] was much worse tonight. Pitt countered by making their shots, and once they stopped turning the ball over in the 2nd half their #1 ranked offense got rolling.
- I realize he doesn't shoot much, but why doesn't Dante Taylor get more burn?
TEMPO-FREE BOX SCORE . Visitor Home . Connecticut PITT . 1st Half 2nd Half Total 1st Half 2nd Half Total Pace 34 32 67 Effic. 81.6 108.3 94.3 107.8 126.9 116.7 eFG% 33.3 38.9 35.8 60.5 55.2 57.3 TO% 26.2 18.6 22.4 29.1 15.5 22.4 OR% 50.0 45.0 47.6 33.3 46.7 40.7 FTA/FGA 21.2 70.4 43.3 105.3 34.5 62.5 Assist Rate 30.0 33.3 31.6 63.6 85.7 76.0 Block Rate 18.8 19.0 18.9 4.2 26.7 12.8 Steal Rate 11.7 12.4 12.0 8.7 9.3 9.0 2FG% 33.3 40.0 35.9 62.5 47.6 54.1 3FG% 22.2 25.0 23.8 33.3 50.0 45.5 FT% 85.7 73.7 76.9 70.0 90.0 76.7
INDIVIDUAL NET POINTS STATS Connecticut Off % Pts Def Pts Player Poss Poss O.Rtg Prod Poss D.Rtg Allow Net Pts SMITH, Roscoe 28 19.7 59.1 3.3 28 97.2 5.4 -2.1 ORIAKHI, Alex 32 17.2 128.3 7.1 32 141.0 9.0 -1.3 OKWANDU, Charles 40 10.4 104.0 4.3 42 102.1 8.6 -2.1 LAMB, Jeremy 50 16.8 120.1 10.1 50 114.6 11.5 -0.4 WALKER, Kemba 58 40.3 109.0 25.5 59 107.0 12.6 +6.7 WOLF, Enosch 4 29.2 28.6 0.3 4 110.0 0.9 -0.7 BEVERLY, Donnell 8 25.0 0.0 0.0 7 117.1 1.6 -2.0 COOMBS-McDANIEL, J 15 6.7 0.0 0.0 16 95.5 3.1 -2.0 GIFFEY, Niels 16 18.8 0.0 0.0 14 137.8 3.9 -4.0 OLANDER, Tyler 35 9.3 76.3 2.5 30 131.6 7.9 -3.6 NAPIER, Shabazz 44 15.1 89.3 5.9 43 114.0 9.8 -2.8 TOTALS 66 92.1 59.0 65 114.2 74.2 -14.8 PITT Off % Pts Def Pts Player Poss Poss O.Rtg Prod Poss D.Rtg Allow Net Pts Brown, Gilbert 44 21.3 97.6 9.2 42 97.1 8.2 +0.5 Robinson, Nasir 53 21.6 107.0 12.2 54 81.8 8.8 +3.1 McGhee, Gary 37 21.5 137.6 10.9 36 89.6 6.4 +4.2 Gibbs, Ashton 55 24.0 139.6 18.4 53 94.9 10.1 +7.1 Wanamaker, Brad 53 21.2 110.5 12.4 53 93.1 9.9 +2.3 Woodall, Travon 31 24.9 107.2 8.3 35 99.6 7.0 +0.9 Taylor, Dante 27 5.0 133.3 1.8 29 75.7 4.4 -0.9 Zanna, Talib 9 13.5 53.3 0.6 9 60.0 1.1 -0.3 Moore, J.J 16 12.1 145.7 2.8 19 91.8 3.5 +0.2 TOTALS 65 117.3 76.8 66 89.8 59.3 +17.8
HD BOX SCORE
Connecticut vs PITT
12/27/10 8:30 PM at Petersen Events Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Final score: PITT 78, Connecticut 63
Connecticut Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
SMITH, Roscoe 17:21 - 3 2/27 0- 4 0- 1 2- 2 5/29 1/ 8 0/28 2/28 0/19 2/21 6/15 5
ORIAKHI, Alex 19:07 -17 8/28 1- 4 0- 0 6- 7 4/29 0/ 8 0/32 1/32 3/23 1/21 0/15 3
OKWANDU, Charles 24:17 - 5 4/40 2- 4 0- 0 0- 0 4/38 0/11 0/42 1/40 4/20 2/25 2/15 5
LAMB, Jeremy 28:49 -15 9/48 3- 7 0- 1 3- 4 8/46 1/12 2/50 1/50 0/29 4/32 4/21 2
WALKER, Kemba 36:04 -15 31/58 7-16 3-11 8-11 27/52 2/ 7 5/59 3/58 0/35 2/36 2/24 2
WOLF, Enosch 01:51 - 2 0/ 2 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/ 3 0/ 0 0/ 4 1/ 4 0/ 3 1/ 3 0/ 1 0
BEVERLY, Donnell 04:17 - 3 0/ 7 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/ 3 0/ 1 1/ 7 2/ 8 0/ 4 0/ 3 0/ 2 1
COOMBS-McDANIEL, J 10:17 + 1 0/15 0- 0 0- 1 0- 0 1/17 0/ 6 0/16 0/15 0/ 6 0/10 0/ 5 0
GIFFEY, Niels 08:53 - 6 0/13 0- 0 0- 1 0- 0 1/14 0/ 5 0/14 2/16 0/ 7 0/ 9 0/ 5 2
OLANDER, Tyler 21:19 - 7 2/33 1- 2 0- 0 0- 0 2/25 0/ 6 0/30 1/35 0/16 2/20 1/15 3
NAPIER, Shabazz 27:45 - 3 7/44 0- 2 2- 6 1- 2 8/44 2/12 0/43 0/44 0/23 1/30 1/22 3
TOTALS 40:00 63 14-39 5-21 20-26 60 6/19 8/65 15/66 7/37 20/42 16/27 26
. 0.359 0.238 0.769 0.316 0.123 0.227 0.189 0.476 0.593
PITT Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
Brown, Gilbert 26:09 +18 6/58 2- 6 0- 2 2- 2 8/39 4/18 1/42 2/44 0/25 2/22 0/26 4
Robinson, Nasir 31:12 +13 11/65 4- 8 0- 0 3- 6 8/37 4/18 1/54 2/53 1/32 2/20 8/35 3
McGhee, Gary 21:13 + 5 11/42 5- 6 0- 0 1- 3 6/28 1/11 0/36 2/37 3/26 4/16 7/24 2
Gibbs, Ashton 31:42 +24 21/71 3- 7 3- 6 6- 6 13/44 7/19 0/53 1/55 0/31 0/22 1/34 2
Wanamaker, Brad 32:01 +13 14/64 4- 7 1- 1 3- 4 8/36 1/15 2/53 3/53 0/31 2/21 0/32 3
Woodall, Travon 20:45 - 3 9/32 1- 2 1- 2 4- 4 4/21 2/ 6 1/35 3/31 0/18 0/14 0/22 3
Taylor, Dante 18:41 +10 3/36 1- 1 0- 0 1- 2 1/19 0/ 8 1/29 0/27 1/13 0/12 3/18 0
Zanna, Talib 06:28 - 1 0/ 6 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/ 9 0/ 2 0/ 9 1/ 9 0/ 6 1/ 7 1/ 6 2
Moore, J.J 11:49 - 4 3/16 0- 0 0- 0 3- 3 0/ 7 0/ 3 0/19 1/16 0/13 0/ 6 1/13 4
TOTALS 40:00 78 20-37 5-11 23-30 48 19/25 6/66 15/65 5/39 11/27 22/42 23
. 0.541 0.455 0.767 0.760 0.091 0.231 0.128 0.407 0.524
Efficiency: PITT 1.200, Connecticut 0.955
eFG%: PITT 0.573, Connecticut 0.358
Substitutions: PITT 33, Connecticut 42
2-pt Shot Selection:
Dunks: PITT 2-2, Connecticut 1-1
Layups/Tips: PITT 10-20, Connecticut 5-17
Jumpers: PITT 8-15, Connecticut 8-21
Fast break pts (% FG pts): PITT 8 (14.5), Connecticut 6 (14.0)
Pts (eff.) after steal: PITT 7 (116.7), Connecticut 9 (112.5)
Seconds per poss: PITT 18.0, Connecticut 19.0
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