UTEP will play Rice next, and I wanted to post the Rice card set.
A few things to notice:
1) Look at the low field goal ratings. I think only one Rice player shot over .400 all year.
2) Virtually every player is better on "secondary" than they are on "action". My strategy for Rice will be to have the players shoot immediately unless someone like T'wana Gobbi (assist = 52) is holding the ball.
3) The rebounding ratings are also generally row. No shooting + no rebounding = bad team.
4) In particularly, look at the -10 Road Index. Rice didn't win a single game at their opponent's court all year (they were 1-1 on neutral courts).
In that odd instance where a player's secondary rating is higher than his/her FG rating, I ignore the secondary rating.
ReplyDeleteGah, that team is horrible.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason, the Owls reached my consciousness last season. It wasn't because Jae Kingi-Cross is on their staff, though — they beat Northridge by 19 points early. That's how bad Northridge was.
Christy McKinney used to be their coach, and Rice was quite good back then. Greg Williams took over in 2006 and the program appears to have gone into a decline.
ReplyDeleteIt would probably be a good idea to ignore the secondary rating, but I'll probably keep it because it gives some "strategic personality" to the team - a team of "shoot firsters" might be interesting to face in a game.