Originally Posted by
pfrduke
- The next step in this is to factor in the buckets off of offensive rebounds. The numbers for Mason, Miles, Ryan, and Josh are all skewed a little downward because they don't factor in put-back buckets. So all of the un-assisted baskets aren't really self-created in the sense that they got the ball in a half-court set and made something for themselves. Mason, in particular, needs improvement on this. He had just 48 unassisted baskets, a decent number of which must be put-backs. He needs to do better than one self-created hoop per game.
I'm just realizing that I got the comment on Mason slightly wrong. He had just 48 unassisted dunks & layups, but when you factor in other 2s (including things like his hook shots), that number goes up to 72. Again, it certainly comes down a bit with put backs, but getting closer to two buckets of his own making per game is definitely better than one. If that number could go up closer to 3 per game (Sullinger was in that neck of the woods, with 109 unassisted twos), it would show good development in Mason's low post offense and ability to create for himself. Note that the ~6 points per game would be under-representative, since it would not include trips to the line that come from unconverted post moves.
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