RE: Temple men’s bb 2019-2020
In MCKie’s first season as HC, 2019-2020, Temple was coming off a 13-5 conference record. In the 2019-2020 season, Temple fell to a terrible conference record of 6-12.
I argued on this thread that one of the reasons for Temple’s decline was that McKie favored team Captain JP Moorman over Dre Perry and Monty Scott, Forrester over Hamilton, who were better players, shooters and scorers than both Moorman and Forrester.
Both Perry and Scott should have played more at SF and Rose should have moved to the PF position replacing Moorman.
The favoritism manifested itself in conference play by Moorman having averaged 25.7 mpg and just 6.8 ppg. Moorman’s FG percentage was 37 percent. While Perry averaged just 18 mpg and 5.6 ppg. But Perry’s FG percentage was 44.4 percent.
This season, Perry playing for Albany, is averaging 32.8 mpg and 12.7 ppg. He’s overall FG percentage is 48.3 percent far better than when he played Temple. He’s shooting 43.6 percent on three’s.
At Temple, in conference play, Scott averaged 20.5 mpg. and 8.3 ppg, had a 41-1 FG percentage, and shot 54.7 percent on two’s, and only 22.5 percent on three’s.
The reason he shot so poorly on three’s is because he was shuttled in and out of games off the bench.Prior to Temple, Scott had started at Kennesaw State and shot 36.8 percent on three’s in conference play. Following Temple, Scott had shot 35.7 percent on three’s in conference play.
Scott is now starting for Eastern Michigan and averaging 31.5 mpg, and is averaging 16.7 ppg, with a 53 percent overall FG percentage, shooting 58 percent on two’s, and 44.4 percent on three’s.
If both Scott and Perry had played for Temple far more than they did and Moorman less, both Perry and Scott would have taken fga’s from Rose, NPL, and Moorman took, and that would have been a good thing as all three were poor shooters during the 2019-2020 season.
Hamilton playing under Dunphy had a 59.7 FG percentage in conference play. Under McKie, he saw hiscFG percentage drop to 46.7 percent in conference play.
Hamilton started the 2019- 2020 season as Temple’s starting Center, and Temple had a winning non-conference record to start the season. McKie then had transfer Jake Forrester replace Hamilton in the starting line-up, and Temple subsequently crashed in conference play.
Forrester averaged 16.1 mpg and 6.6 ppg. He had a FG percentage of 51.1. Hamilton only averaged 9.3 mpg and 3.9 mpg in conference play. At Kent State last season in conference play, Hamilton averaged 25.5 mpg and 9.2 ppg. Hamilton had a 51.3 FG percentage
in conference play.
The fact that Perry, Scott, and Hamilton, all saw their shooting percentage increase fromwhen they played for Mckie, shows how bad Mckie’s offensive system is.
What a different outcome Temple’s 2019-2020 conference record would have been if Perry, Scott, and Hamilton had played far more than they did, and Perry, Scott, and Scott had returned to play last season, and Perry, Scott, and Hamilton had returned this season to play for Temple.
Because of Covid giving players a free additional year to play, Mckie did not realize that when both Scott and Hamilton left, they would be able to play two additional years.
(This post was last modified: 11-30-2021 09:35 AM by Miggy.)
|