Splits

To follow up on some work done by SFN, here's a look at how the team fared against New Orleans while each player was on/off the court. For the game, State's offensive efficiency was 90.0 and its defensive efficiency was 92.9

                PtsScored   OffPoss   Off_Eff   PtsAllowed   DefPoss   Def_Eff

Hickson   On       55          54      101.9        46          55       83.6
.        Off        8          15       53.3        17          15      113.3

Fells     On       54          53      101.9        49          55       89.1
.        Off        9          16       56.3        16          15      106.7

Grant     On       55          52      105.8        58          54      107.4
.        Off        8          17       47.1         7          16       43.8

Degand    On       50          51       98.0        47          52       90.4
.        Off       13          18       72.2        18          18      100.0

Costner   On       50          49      102.0        46          51       90.2
.        Off       13          20       65.0        19          19      100.0

Gonzalez  On       13          18       72.2        18          18      100.0
.        Off       50          51       98.0        47          52       90.4

Ferguson  On        9          20       45.0        19          19       100.0
.        Off       54          49       110.2       47          51        92.2

Smith     On        0           6         0          7           6       116.7
.        Off       63          63       100.0       58          64        90.6

Horner    On       16          19        84.2       12          18        66.7
.        Off       47          50        94.0       53          51       103.9

McCauley  On       13          21        61.9       23          21       109.5
.        Off       50          48       104.2       42          49        85.7

I don't think Gonzalez and Ferguson should ever be on the court at the same time, and Lowe left them both out there for a while on Sunday. It hurts having two positions on the floor occupied by non-offensive/low usage players. Ferguson is such a liability on the defensive end that he has to produce something offensively to make his playing time even remotely useful. It would be a big help to this team if Ferguson could assume a three-point specialist role, but he doesn't seem to want to get involved.