Morsell in conference play

[panda]

So much of offensive rebounding is knowing they type of shot going up,  and being in a possession to capitalize.

In conference play, with morsell on the court, marquette takes too many mid range shots (24% of attempts), out of the scheme of the offense (only 38% assisted.) With Morsell Marquette only makes 36.4% of their midrange attempts.

In conference play, without mosell on the court, marqutte takes 17.9% of their attempts from the midrange, with more coming in the scheme of the offense (48% assisted.) Without Morsell Marquette makes 42.9% of their midrange attempts.

By running our coached offense and not settling, Marquettes offensive rebounding rate goes from 18.6% with morsell up too 28.2% without morsell.

I don't think if this is a black and white thing, I just some light coaching and minutes changes could benefit this team.

We suffer defensively when he's off the court but I do agree, he does force himself sometimes on the offensive end taking poor shots. Shaka does a good job of sitting him when he does that.

[DoctorV]

So much of offensive rebounding is knowing they type of shot going up,  and being in a possession to capitalize.

In conference play, with morsell on the court, marquette takes too many mid range shots (24% of attempts), out of the scheme of the offense (only 38% assisted.) With Morsell Marquette only makes 36.4% of their midrange attempts.

In conference play, without mosell on the court, marqutte takes 17.9% of their attempts from the midrange, with more coming in the scheme of the offense (48% assisted.) Without Morsell Marquette makes 42.9% of their midrange attempts.

By running our coached offense and not settling, Marquettes offensive rebounding rate goes from 18.6% with morsell up too 28.2% without morsell.

I don't think if this is a black and white thing, I just some light coaching and minutes changes could benefit this team.

There was a game within the last few weeks where Morsells ability to create his own shot, aka his midrange game off the dribble that goes unassisted and isn't in the "flow" of the offense, won Marquette the game with a personal 9 pt stretch of mid range buckets. Most mid range shots come off of an iso and dribble to create space and shoot, so there won't be much assisting there. Justin and Darryl are really the only two that can do it on this years team.

He's good at it, it's effective, and there are very few other guys that can create their own shot and do that when push comes to shove against a good defensive team when Marquette is trying to stop a run and needs a bucket.

Darryl taking a mid range shot is a very good part of Marquettes offense, he's done it effectively several times this season and it makes me happy to see him take one when the offense needs a bucket, because like I said he's very good at it.

I'm a numbers guy and I like metrics and all the data that comes with them, but if you watch this years team you know that Darryl's offense has been very valuable to this teams success, and will be needed if they are to survive and advance. I mean he's the second leading scorer on the team by a wide margins, and there aren't many guys that can go get a bucket on their own like he can.

[MU82]

In the season's first four games, Morsell was an offensive revelation, averaging 21 points on almost 60% shooting. In the 21 games since then, he's averaging 10.7 points on 39% shooting.

21 games is big sample size, and the stats he's put up during that nearly 3-month stretch are roughly in line with what he did during 4 seasons at Maryland (8.7 points on 45% shooting).

I don't know whether he hasn't been healthy enough, or opponents started defending him differently, or he simply has reverted to his 4-year norm -- or some combination thereof.

He has had a few good offensive games during these last 3 months, including the one Doctor V mentioned, but those increasingly look like outliers.

I'm glad Shaka brought got Darryl to wrap up his college career at Marquette. He has played fine D in most games.

But he is what he is on offense. Thankfully, several other players have stepped up considerably over the last 2-3 months, including O-Max, Kam and Greg.

[DoctorV]

That's a fair assessment MU82 but my main point is that I feel like we are grossly undervaluing his production and importance to the team.

In the last 10 conference games alone he's had offensive performances of
26,19,16,15,14 points- all better than his career numbers.
It's not like he's a huge volume shooter either, those numbers came from an average of 10-13 shots.

His defense has been discussed ad nauseam, and all I'll say about that is that sometimes I find myself hoping for more from him on that end but then I realize when he decides to turn it on he's an elite defender that makes huge plays.

He will decide to turn it on at that end in big games down the stretch with his career winding down, so he's definitely a big defensive necessity. He's had two different games with 6 steals in the past month...

Last and main point on this
He's struggled in the last 3 games offensively
9,9,0 pts on 6/27 shooting, 22%.
Coincidentally Marquette has really struggle during that three game stretch also.
This years team needs Darryl Morsell (and Kur for that matter) to be good if it wants to succeed and advance in the Big dance.

[panda]

That's a fair assessment MU82 but my main point is that I feel like we are grossly undervaluing his production and importance to the team.

In the last 10 conference games alone he's had offensive performances of
26,19,16,15,14 points- all better than his career numbers.
It's not like he's a huge volume shooter either, those numbers came from an average of 10-13 shots.

His defense has been discussed ad nauseam, and all I'll say about that is that sometimes I find myself hoping for more from him on that end but then I realize when he decides to turn it on he's an elite defender that makes huge plays.

He will decide to turn it on at that end in big games down the stretch with his career winding down, so he's definitely a big defensive necessity. He's had two different games with 6 steals in the past month...

Last and main point on this
He's struggled in the last 3 games offensively
9,9,0 pts on 6/27 shooting, 22%.
Coincidentally Marquette has really struggle during that three game stretch also.
This years team needs Darryl Morsell (and Kur for that matter) to be good if it wants to succeed and advance in the Big dance.

He's a bucket getter when we need points. There is no metric for that.

[PGsHeroes32]

Daryl has frustrated me with a lot of his play lately. But its mostly bad decisions. Either sloppy passes or dumb shots that are not part of our offensive flow.

Hes still a huge piece. Hes still been a fantastic addition as a senior leader.

Just someone who needs to sit when he isnt right, and shaka has a good read on that.

Glad to have him and Kur. Both are guys that greatly help us surpise this year, but are also not guys that by simply graduating signal "rebuilding or step back year"

[MU82]

That's a fair assessment MU82 but my main point is that I feel like we are grossly undervaluing his production and importance to the team.

In the last 10 conference games alone he's had offensive performances of
26,19,16,15,14 points- all better than his career numbers.
It's not like he's a huge volume shooter either, those numbers came from an average of 10-13 shots.

His defense has been discussed ad nauseam, and all I'll say about that is that sometimes I find myself hoping for more from him on that end but then I realize when he decides to turn it on he's an elite defender that makes huge plays.

He will decide to turn it on at that end in big games down the stretch with his career winding down, so he's definitely a big defensive necessity. He's had two different games with 6 steals in the past month...

Last and main point on this
He's struggled in the last 3 games offensively
9,9,0 pts on 6/27 shooting, 22%.
Coincidentally Marquette has really struggle during that three game stretch also.
This years team needs Darryl Morsell (and Kur for that matter) to be good if it wants to succeed and advance in the Big dance.

Good take.

We need 2 of Morsell, Lewis and Kolek to be "on" to beat good teams, and we'll need all 3 to be on to win in March.

[panda]

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