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<\/p>\nUNLV beat New Mexico 80-63 in a 64-possession game Saturday night. I was there. This is what I saw.<\/p>\n
Mike Moser is great offensive rebounder considering his shot selection.<\/b><\/p>\n
I don’t think there’s a useful position descriptor for UNLV’s Mike Moser. Whatever you want to call him, he was a busy man on Saturday night, taking 16 shots, grabbing 13 boards and recording two blocks. It\u2019s not Moser\u2019s activity that makes him unique, though. It\u2019s that his shot selection skews towards the perimeter, yet he\u2019s a major factor on the offensive glass. This is best explained in graph form.<\/p>\n
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What you see here is the distribution of D-I players that have played at least 40% of their team\u2019s minutes this season, according to their OR% and 3PA%. Two players have separated themselves from the cloud, er, crowd. Moser and Belmont\u2019s Brandon Baker. Even though Baker takes a higher percentage of his shots from three-point range, he takes many fewer shots than Moser in general (Baker’s %Shots is 16.2 to Moser’s 25.6), and thus has a little more time to hang out near the rim than Moser does.<\/p>\n
Carlos Lopez is no longer a minutes-thief<\/b><\/p>\n
I was not a big fan of UNLV center Carlos Lopez last season mainly because I felt like he was taking minutes that rightfully belonged to man-child Quintrell Thomas. But this year you could make the case that Thomas is stealing Lopez\u2019s minutes. If it weren\u2019t for his part-time status, Lopez would be getting more credit for an amazing turnaround in his game. He\u2019s gone from an ORtg\/%Poss combo of 96\/23 as a freshman to 126\/21 as a sophomore and has made 73% of his twos so far. He didn\u2019t disappoint in this game, either, getting to the free throw line 14 times in 14 minutes of action. Free Carlos!<\/p>\n
Where has Steve Alford\u2019s defense gone?<\/b><\/p>\n