The shooting data can be found in .xls format here, and the differential data can be found in the multi-game UFR post from earlier this week.
Individual Players
| Stu Douglass 29min -8 | |||||
| Quality | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | F |
| Lane | |||||
| Midrange | 0/1 | ||||
| 3-pt | 0/1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | ||
Made a couple gritty white guy plays (normally the domain of Novak), but didn’t shoot well against the Badgers’ suffocating perimeter defense.
| Zack Gibson 6min +2 | |||||
| Quality | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | F |
| Lane | |||||
| Midrange | |||||
| 3-pt | 1/1 | ||||
Actually played very well. Against a Wisconsin team with lots of tall white guys, I wish he would have gotten more run.
| Manny Harris 38min 0 | |||||
| Quality | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | F |
| Lane | 0/1 | 1/2 | 0/1 | ||
| Midrange | 0/1 | 2/4 | 1/1 | ||
| 3-pt | 1 | 0/1 | 1/4 | ||
Has a really tough time when the officiating tends to let them play. Of course, that was the standard on one end of the floor for most of the game.
| CJ Lee 32min +6 | |||||
| Quality | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | F |
| Lane | 1/1 | ||||
| Midrange | 0/1 | ||||
| 3-pt | 2/3 | ||||
Actually a very good day, considering the only “1” was when Manny screwed him over in a low-clock situation. The differential is also quite good for a 5-point loss.
| Laval Lucas-Perry 11min +3 | |||||
| Quality | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | F |
| Lane | |||||
| Midrange | |||||
| 3-pt | 0/1 | 1/1 | |||
Didn’t get a ton of minutes, but shot a little better than we’ve come to expect (sad that “better than expected” has become 50% on open 3s).
| Zack Novak 34min -1 | |||||
| Quality | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | F |
| Lane | 1/1 | ||||
| Midrange | 0/1 | ||||
| 3-pt | 0 | 1/2 | |||
Didn’t step up as the big third guy, but played admirably against players much taller than he is.
| Jevohn Shepherd 0min | |||||
| Quality | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | F |
| Lane | |||||
| Midrange | |||||
| 3-pt | |||||
DNP – coach’s decision.
| DeShawn Sims 36min -10 | |||||
| Quality | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | F |
| Lane | 1 | 1/2 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/2 |
| Midrange | 1/1 | 1/4 | 2/2 | ||
| 3-pt | 0/3 | 0/1 | |||
The three-point shooting is bad (though most of them were chucks at the end), and the 1/4 from midrange on makeable shots is uncharacteristic, but think how much more effective Sims could have been with a legit bigman by his side.
| David Merritt 9min -9 | |||||
| Quality | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | F |
| Lane | |||||
| Midrange | 0/1 | ||||
| 3-pt | 0/1 | ||||
Limited playing time, limited effectiveness.
| Kelvin Grady 1min -2 | |||||
| Quality | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | F |
| Lane | |||||
| Midrange | |||||
| 3-pt | |||||
Hardly played at all.
From the differentials, it would appear that point guard play by anyone not named “CJ Lee” was an issue in this game. I’d say this was the case, though I think Grady needs to get minutes in order to be effective as anything other than a press-breaker or spot-up shooter. The Wisconsin defense was pretty good throughout the game, and Michigan’s lack of size really hurt. It’s easy to see how this team will improve next year.
Posted under Analysis, Basketball
Tags: ufr, wisconsin