![]() ![]() ![]() TL DR: I get into the weeds of methodology a little bit below. That lineup gets 11.4% of the minutes every documented four-runner lineup in the top ten on KenPom adds up to under a quarter of Xavier’s minutes. Of the top ten five-man lineups in the last five games according to KenPom, only one featuring four runners - McKnight, Olivari, Claude, Swain, and Ousmane - has seen more than 5% of the available minutes. Xavier’s current lineup plans consist of three runners and two lumberers on the floor at any given time. Claude, Olivari, McKnight, Green, Swain, and Nzeh (whose foul problems and limited minutes mean I don’t really factor him into the below calculations) can run. Runners and lumberers, if you will.įor those of you who haven’t been watching Xavier or have reverse T-rex vision where you can only see things that aren’t in motion, I’ll quickly break down Xavier’s roster along these lines: Ousmane, Ciani, Nemeiksa, and Djokovic all lumber, though Djokovic less than the first three. ![]() One thing that doesn’t get too much attention (in circles I run in, at any rate) is the distinction between guys who can play in transition and guys who don’t. Basketball is generally broken into posts, wings, and guards, delineations that are further broken down into so many further, more specific subsets that we aren’t going to go into them here. What they’re doing in the last 20 seconds of the shot clock isn’t working that well, but their work in transition is unimpeachable. The Muskies get almost a third of their initial shot attempts in transition according to, and they’re posting a delightful 60.9% EFG% in those shots, including 42.5% from beyond the arc. In transition, however, they turn into the best shooting team in the nation. Of Big East teams, that ranks 10th out of 11. The offense is currently 77th in the country in adjusted efficiency according to KenPom, dragged down by an atrocious 49.2% EFG%, which is 216th in the country. One of them is that they’re not very good at scoring in the half court. There are some things we know about Xavier. ![]()
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