RE: OB wouldnt be down with 3 for 2 deal

[Kim Malo <kimmalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:21 PM 11/11/2003, Enrile, Roy wrote:
>Hi Kim, how about the minutes, FGA, FGM, points, assists, rb, TO, Blk,
>Steals (all per game) of:
>Blount
>Battie
>Walt
>EW
>Paul
>
>The stats could be added up for each category.  Then if the combined MPG
>of the group is the roughly the same both years, we can see if "Obie's
>guys" as a group have responded well w/o Antoine.  Or if Toine made
>other players better like Jason Kidd(I'm guessing he only made Paul
>better).

Alright, now that I've got all the boxscores fed in, I ran this to compare 
averages as of Tuesday's Indiana game ( I can do totals at the end, but 
averages at least shows trends in the new games for now). I think a lot of 
this is deeper bench vs Walker per se although using it also gets into the 
whole what his absense frees us to do too. Bleh. Anyway, probably the most 
interesting stats are Blount's and Walter's vs last season. While Williams 
is more effective in less minutes (less than half the minutes but about 2/3 
the same production almost across the board). Pierce's TO and A both up, 
probably the most direct effect of Walker gone. Slightly less effective 
shooting, but closer to last season than it feels watching him.

Oh and my theory about fouls drawn correlating in any way with PT for 
EWill. Didn't hold true for last year, where the average number of fouls 
was about the same for the games he had above average minutes in as the 
games he had below average minutes (about .1 foul per game difference). 
However, this year that's not as true. This season he's averaging 13 
minutes per game, but that's actual a matter of 4 games he played 19 
minutes or more vs 3 games he DNP. The difference in fouls called on the 
opponent is almost 2 per game when he plays this season. Hopefully this 
will come through not too badly out of line:

                           2002-2003
                           2003-2004
                MPG   FGA  FGM  PTS A    TO    ST REB  B
ERIC WILLIAMS 28.68 7.01 3.10 9.10 1.71 1.18 1.05 4.66 0.23
              13.00 4.57 2.14 6.00 0.43 0.71 0.57 2.86 0.00

              MPG   FGA  FGM  PTS   A   TO   ST   REB  B
Mark Blount  19.19 2.96 1.67 4.44 0.78 1.22 0.74 4.63 0.63
             21.57 4.00 2.43 5.57 2.00 1.43 1.14 5.00 1.57

               MPG   FGA   FGM   PTS   A  TO   ST  REB  B
PAUL PIERCE   37.76 19.41 8.09 24.98 4.26 3.51 1.70 7.05  0.76
               38.71 20.43 8.29 22.00 5.14 5.29 1.43 7.57  0.86

              MPG   FGA  FGM  PTS   A  TO      ST REB   B
TONY BATTIE  20.78 4.56 2.46 6.01 0.60 0.59 0.41 5.35 1.00
              19.14 4.29 2.29 5.43 0.71 1.14 0.43 4.14 0.71

                 MPG   FGA  FGM  PTS   A TO   ST  REB  B
Walter McCarty 23.77 5.10 2.11 6.07 1.29 0.82 0.94 3.51 0.34
               10.00 2.00 0.57 1.43 0.86 0.29 0.29 1.43 0.14