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Who: STANFORD (7-3) vs. SMU (8-3)
When: Monday, December 19 @ 9P est / 8P cst
Where: Moody
TV: ESPN2
RADIO: KAAM 770 AM

Per KenPom:
SMU is projected to win 68-61 (73% Win Probability)

When SMU has the ball:
SMU Off: Scoring 111.1 pts. / 100 possessions (#50)
STANFORD Def: Giving up 94.2 pts. / 100 possessions (#23)

Key stats:
SMU is grabbing 41.8% of all available offensive rebounds (#4) and STANFORD is allowing opponents to grab 23.8% of all offensive rebounds (#12).


When STANFORD has the Ball
STANFORD Off: Scoring 104.0 pts. / 100 possessions (#171)
SMU Def: Giving up 96.6 pts. / 100 possessions (#44)

Key Stats:
Stanford is shooting 29.6% from downtown (#321) – here’s to hoping they don’t catch fire against us

** Updated after Stanford's win vs. Cal St East Bay; Updated 12/19

Who: ALBANY (6-5) vs. SMU (8-3)
When: Tuesday, December 20 @ 8P est / 7P cst
Where: Moody
TV: Watch ESPN
RADIO: KAAM 770 AM

Per KenPom:
SMU is projected to win 72-59 (89% Win Probability)

When SMU has the ball:
SMU Off: Scoring 110.3 pts. / 100 possessions (#47)
ALBANY Def: Giving up 104.3 pts. / 100 possessions (#188)

Key stats:
SMU is grabbing 41.8% of all available offensive rebounds (#4) and ALBANY is allowing opponents to grab 22.9% of all offensive rebounds (#10).


When ALBANY has the Ball
ALBANY Off: Scoring 103.3 pts. / 100 possessions (#168)
SMU Def: Giving up 96.0 pts. / 100 possessions (#49)

Harry becoming quite the multi-tasker

Should be a fun time in Moody next week!

Harry, your favorite QA person, but it's Tuesday the 20th.

I hope the crowd really shows up and is ready to be loud for Monday. Stanford is a BIG game. The student section won't be that big because winter break.

SMU_Alum11 wrote:Harry, your favorite QA person, but it's Tuesday the 20th.

I gotta stop doing these while I'm on work calls. I promise my attention to detail is better than it's showing.

Truly ridiculous that I make these mistakes every time.

My apologies

Harry0569 wrote:

SMU_Alum11 wrote:Harry, your favorite QA person, but it's Tuesday the 20th.

I gotta stop doing these while I'm on work calls. I promise my attention to detail is better than it's showing.

Truly ridiculous that I make these mistakes every time.

My apologies

How is 96pts/100 defensive possessions ranked 49th and 96.3pts/100 defensive possessions is ranked 26th? Am I missing something?

Grant Carter wrote:

Harry0569 wrote:

SMU_Alum11 wrote:Harry, your favorite QA person, but it's Tuesday the 20th.

I gotta stop doing these while I'm on work calls. I promise my attention to detail is better than it's showing.

Truly ridiculous that I make these mistakes every time.

My apologies

How is 96pts/100 defensive possessions ranked 49th and 96.3pts/100 defensive possessions is ranked 26th? Am I missing something?

yeah...you are missing Markus Kennedy's tutor.

Grant Carter wrote:

Harry0569 wrote:

SMU_Alum11 wrote:Harry, your favorite QA person, but it's Tuesday the 20th.

I gotta stop doing these while I'm on work calls. I promise my attention to detail is better than it's showing.

Truly ridiculous that I make these mistakes every time.

My apologies

How is 96pts/100 defensive possessions ranked 49th and 96.3pts/100 defensive possessions is ranked 26th? Am I missing something?

93.6, not 96.3

I hate Stanford.

What to watch for:

Watch our motion, rub and roll offense as it tries to isolate individual players and give them space to create their shot. I expect there will be a lot of trial and error at the beginning of the game, and then the team will figure out who the worst defensive player is and the isolate against him the rest of the game, switching the point of the attack to whomever is guarding that player.

Another thing to watch is when the other team plays zone. Froling was becoming a center point of the zone attack by using his size and passing ability at the free throw line. Moore is really the only player who can do that now, and isn't as big. That positioning is important because not only does it facilitate better movement of the ball, but it also opens the baseline for the backdoor lob. Key component of the anti-zone offense we have run for years, and a major reason teams tried to not run zone against us. I am interested to see if we struggle against the zone without that passing ability, or if the zone makes the rub and roll that much more effective because there won't be as much help.

Finally, defensively, I suspect that if we start to get beat up inside, we will make two adjustments: First, we will go zone in order to help in the middle and force the ball to the outside with a bad shooting team from deep. Second, we will go a full court or 3/4 court zone press and then back into the zone in order to force them to eat up more time before getting in the front court,, giving them less time to tear apart the zone.

horsemanx wrote:I hate Stanford.

Horsemanx... Hahaha great name

Lebanese4Life wrote:

Grant Carter wrote:

Harry0569 wrote:[quote="SMU_Alum11"]Harry, your favorite QA person, but it's Tuesday the 20th.

I gotta stop doing these while I'm on work calls. I promise my attention to detail is better than it's showing.

Truly ridiculous that I make these mistakes every time.

My apologies

How is 96pts/100 defensive possessions ranked 49th and 96.3pts/100 defensive possessions is ranked 26th? Am I missing something?

93.6, not 96.3[/quote]
Well that explains it. Sad that I looked at it about 4 times before I posted too.

Stanford now 7-3 after beating Cal State - East Bay 79-55 last night. Classic "coming out of exams" scheduling