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	<title>Comments on: 2011-12 Season Preview: NU</title>
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		<title>By: Josh Reed, Big Ten Geeks</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh Reed, Big Ten Geeks]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve, 

Stops is a statistic developed by Dean Oliver (who wrote the book on most of this stuff), summarized here: http://kenpom.com/blog/index.php/weblog/roster_attrition_by_conference/

You&#039;re right in that guards generally have fewer Stops than big men, but I haven&#039;t seen a distinction between point guards and shooting guards. In any event, Thompson&#039;s Stops numbers are low even by guard standards. But Stops is an imperfect statistic (it doesn&#039;t consider fouling, or lack thereof, for instance), so it&#039;s entirely possible it&#039;s missing contributions from Juice.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Steve, </p>
<p>Stops is a statistic developed by Dean Oliver (who wrote the book on most of this stuff), summarized here: <a href="http://kenpom.com/blog/index.php/weblog/roster_attrition_by_conference/" rel="nofollow">http://kenpom.com/blog/index.php/weblog/roster_attrition_by_conference/</a></p>
<p>You&#8217;re right in that guards generally have fewer Stops than big men, but I haven&#8217;t seen a distinction between point guards and shooting guards. In any event, Thompson&#8217;s Stops numbers are low even by guard standards. But Stops is an imperfect statistic (it doesn&#8217;t consider fouling, or lack thereof, for instance), so it&#8217;s entirely possible it&#8217;s missing contributions from Juice.</p>
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		<title>By: Steve</title>
		<link>http://btn.com/2011/11/09/2011-12-season-preview-northwestern/#comment-2766</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am confused about the &quot;stop&quot; statistic.  Where did you find this/calculate it from?  Do you have comparisons?  I would assume that point guards would generally have the worst stop number on the team--they typically guard the other team&#039;s best ball handler, they often play on the perimeter so don&#039;t get rebounds, and obviously the taller you are the easier it is to block a shot and that stat is always dominated by taller guys.  Plus in the zone defense that northwestern played Juice was always underneath the basket where he would never get a steal and would be too far to block anyone. It always seemed to me that Juice seemed like one of northwestern&#039;s better defenders since he was one of the quickest ones on the floor and moved his feet better than probably anyone.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am confused about the &#8220;stop&#8221; statistic.  Where did you find this/calculate it from?  Do you have comparisons?  I would assume that point guards would generally have the worst stop number on the team&#8211;they typically guard the other team&#8217;s best ball handler, they often play on the perimeter so don&#8217;t get rebounds, and obviously the taller you are the easier it is to block a shot and that stat is always dominated by taller guys.  Plus in the zone defense that northwestern played Juice was always underneath the basket where he would never get a steal and would be too far to block anyone. It always seemed to me that Juice seemed like one of northwestern&#8217;s better defenders since he was one of the quickest ones on the floor and moved his feet better than probably anyone.</p>
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