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It’s been more than two months now and six BBL games (all losses) that Andrew Rautins has missed due to a season-ending injury. And Frankfurt’s offense misses him badly.*
Frankfurt’s offense stagnating since Rautins has gone down (all numbers per Mar. 8, 2014)
(OffRtg/DefRtg in points per 100 possessions, all numbers are generated from the official Beko BBL play-by-plays.)
(*Note that Jacob Burtschi, too, missed every one of those six games plus one more.)
So, when crunching the numbers for Oldenburg’s rather unstable, but still successful season, I found two rather interesting arguments pointing at Oldenburg doing quite well when going for big lineups.
First one goes for Robin Smeulders: He plays a lot of Center this season, mostly due to Adam Chubb’s injury. Oldenburg, as a team, though does better both offensively and defensively with Smeulders at Power Forward. Shooting and rebounding numbers tell that Smeulders himself performs (slightly) better, too, when playing at the 4.
Oldenburg doing better with Smeulders at PF (all numbers per Feb. 28, 2014)
Impressive, what Cliff Hammonds does for Alba:
They are a slightly better offensively when Hammonds is on the floor, but more importantly thrive on defense. Net Rating goes from a mediocre +7.2 in 272 minutes without him to a team-high +21.5 in 568 minutes with him on the floor.
Cliff Hammonds’ defensive impact on Alba’s game (all numbers per Feb. 22, 2014)
(OffRtg/DefRtg in points per 100 possessions, all numbers are generated from the official Beko BBL play-by-plays.)
Bayern played eight different combos at PF/C this season logging meaningful minutes (BBL competition only).
Lineups featuring Thompson/Idbihi produce by far the best Defensive Efficiency and an above-average Offensive Efficiency for an off-the-charts Net Rating of +31.2.
What’s also interesting is that Idbihi is found in three of the top-four lineup combos (sort by NetRtg). (I will come up with some individual numbers on him eventually.)
All numbers per Feb. 21
(OffRtg/DefRtg in points per 100 possessions, all numbers are generated from the official Beko BBL play-by-plays.)
Gib einer Liga, die auf den großen Positionen noch immer zu wenig Qualität aufzuweisen hat, einen körperlich weit überlegenen Center, der unter dem Korb kaum zu stoppen ist, dem man bis an die Dreierlinie folgen muss und der defensiv durch seine schiere Masse jeden Wurf verändert… und dein MVP ist schnell gefunden. Zwei Jahre in Folge gab es wenig Zweifel daran, dass John Bryant in Ulm der wichtigste Spieler der Liga ist.
In diesem Jahr – in München nicht in der Bedeutungslosigkeit verschwunden, in die ihn viele reden wollen, aber einer unter vielen – ist Bryants Präsenz nicht mehr so unverzichtbar. Das ruft in einer Liga, die immer mehr nationale wie internationale Talente lockt, neue Spieler auf den Plan, die in der diesjährigen MVP-Diskussion das ein oder andere Wörtchen mitreden wollen.
