Deonte Burton's game
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Totally agree. Being 240 and built like a Mack truck did not seem to affect his jumping ability or speed. Why slim down?
Didn't think of Jones. Burton still has 20 pounds on him, which still seems crazy in basketball.
I would be shocked if it weren't this way. Williams played one year at juco and has recently had surgery.
Burton is actually working out with our team and there is a lot more film on him
I think he will be a bench player, padding our defense when necessary. Never know though, no one thought Hogue would be leading the league in 3 point % his senior year either....
Jones is like Pratt, good ball skills but a below the rim player. Burton is the opposite really.
Please show me where I said before the season BDJ would be the same type of player and have the same impact as Kane. Thanks bud!
He played 10.6 MPG in his freshman year at Marquette, which went 17-15 (9-9).
Not a ton of time on a mediocre team there--then again, sophomore Wesley Johnson looked similar on a bad Iowa State team. WJ was hurt, though. Burton appears to be fine.
Looking at his "per 40 minutes" splits...
POINTS = 24.0
ASSISTS = 1.9
BLOCKS = 0.8
TURNOVERS = 2.5
Looks like he can score like crazy. That's a Niang-level of offensive productivity, or even more than that... but in 1/4 or 1/5 of the playing time.
This one gets me, though, if you look at the advanced stats:
PER (in the Big East, so number inflation against awful competition) = 24.4
That's really good. Compare that to our eight main players from last year...
McKay = 23.9
Morris = 21.6
BDJ = 19.4 (yes, he was actually a good player, just an obvious head case)
Niang = 17.5
Hogue = 15.8 (15 is supposed to be an average player)
Long = 13.4
Nader = 12.6
Thomas = 11.5
His high PER comes because he scores a lot even if he didn't play a lot. He played 190 minutes in conference last year and scored 114 points. That's 0.60 points per minute. That's nuts.
For comparison...
PLAYER CONFERENCE MINUTES CONFERENCE POINTS
I don't think he can keep that up at volume--but it's not impossible. Doug McDermott pulled 0.80 as a senior. The Big 12 might present more of a challenge, as well.
And for our own benchmark, here's Kane/Ejim from last year...
Kane = 0.50
Ejim = 0.57
Anybody know how he scores like that...?
He doesn't look to be a good outside shooter, or even a great inside one. Looks like he gets fouled like crazy, though. That'd be good. We need somebody to abuse the other team's bigs on fouls and to be able to slow the game down without using a timeout when we need to.
Not a ton of time on a mediocre team there--then again, sophomore Wesley Johnson looked similar on a bad Iowa State team. WJ was hurt, though. Burton appears to be fine.
Looking at his "per 40 minutes" splits...
POINTS = 24.0
ASSISTS = 1.9
BLOCKS = 0.8
TURNOVERS = 2.5
Looks like he can score like crazy. That's a Niang-level of offensive productivity, or even more than that... but in 1/4 or 1/5 of the playing time.
This one gets me, though, if you look at the advanced stats:
PER (in the Big East, so number inflation against awful competition) = 24.4
That's really good. Compare that to our eight main players from last year...
McKay = 23.9
Morris = 21.6
BDJ = 19.4 (yes, he was actually a good player, just an obvious head case)
Niang = 17.5
Hogue = 15.8 (15 is supposed to be an average player)
Long = 13.4
Nader = 12.6
Thomas = 11.5
His high PER comes because he scores a lot even if he didn't play a lot. He played 190 minutes in conference last year and scored 114 points. That's 0.60 points per minute. That's nuts.
For comparison...
PLAYER CONFERENCE MINUTES CONFERENCE POINTS
| Niang | 563 | 269 | 0.48 |
| BDJ | 394 | 175 | 0.44 |
| McKay | 488 | 205 | 0.42 |
| Nader | 277 | 110 | 0.40 |
| Morris | 621 | 222 | 0.36 |
| Hogue | 479 | 168 | 0.35 |
| Long | 471 | 158 | 0.34 |
| Thomas | 258 | 86 | 0.33 |
I don't think he can keep that up at volume--but it's not impossible. Doug McDermott pulled 0.80 as a senior. The Big 12 might present more of a challenge, as well.
And for our own benchmark, here's Kane/Ejim from last year...
Kane = 0.50
Ejim = 0.57
Anybody know how he scores like that...?
He doesn't look to be a good outside shooter, or even a great inside one. Looks like he gets fouled like crazy, though. That'd be good. We need somebody to abuse the other team's bigs on fouls and to be able to slow the game down without using a timeout when we need to.
