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Originally Posted by jay santos
http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/245966/
Things I like from the article.
1. Tavernari acknowledges he needs to improve shot selection. He needs to shoot. And he needs to shoot a lot. But maybe not quite so much. 16 3 point shot attempts in a game is a bit much.
2. Burgess is showing leadership. Burgess is going to have to be the leader of this team as far as locker room stuff. I like Burgess telling JT he needs to tone it down.
Points per shot:
I define points per shot as total points/(total fg attempts + ft attempts*.5)
Last year, BYU was 1.14 PPS. That's great. That's going to win you a lot of games. Our opponents last year against us were 1.03.
This year, BYU is a phenomanal 1.19.
Breakdown:
PLAISTED, Trent.... 1.24
TAVERNARI, Jonathan 1.09
CUMMARD, Lee....... 1.32
BURGESS, Sam....... 1.22
FREDETTE, Jimmer... 1.27
IVANOVIC, Vuk...... 1.25
LOYD, Michael...... 1.15
MURDOCK, Ben....... 1.24
MILES, Chris....... 1.00
COLLINSWORTH, Chris 0.74
MARTINEAU, Nick.... 1.40
ROSE, Archie....... 1.00
JT is close to the bottom of this at 1.09, but that still is a good PPS, and he's the guy taking wild shots, shots at the end of the shot clock, shots opening up the middle, he's the guy making things happen. So I don't mind him slightly below the team average, and I really don't mind him jacking up those kind of shots if he's at 1.09 PPS.
There are about 3-4 shots a game that he probably needs to eliminate. If he does that, his PPS will go up, and he'll still be the free wheeling shooter that we need.
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I'm not really sure of the best way to convince you of this fact, but 1.09 (1.17 according to ESPN) PPS is not good.
I guess the best way would be to point out the fact that it is below average is that he is 9th on his own team in the stat.
Second, I just went through most of the top scorers in the MWC conference - Tavernari is one - and I didn't find anybody who had a PPS as low as Tavernari. I didn't check everybody in the top 20, but I checked 10-15 and I didn't find anybody.
Tavernari is a good shooter, he's rebounding well, some even think he's playing solid defense. This post is not meant to rip Tav, but let's not pretend that 1.09 (1.17) is a good PPS number.