That kid looked like a lottery pick in that game - and with the way Fran talked about him - I was wondering why I missed him in looking at the stats before the game, that's very much NOT how he's played all year. He's averaging 8ppg and has been wildly inconsistent. His last 5 games are 20-2-13-2-18 points scored. He was 0-5 from three in their previous win @ Utah, and fouled out in ~20 minutes with only 2 pts in their home loss to UCF.
Definitely noticed some occassions when they were caught ball-watching instead of finding a block-out opportunity.
The other angle showed Heise already by the block location. I think he was not trying to block it, but rather to distract (which didn't work). Not sure if he was in foul trouble at that point, but I believe that was in play.
Rewatching the game and that was the only basket down low that Heise gave up to Williams. All the other attempts Williams took around the hoop with Heise guarding him, made him look like first year Rob Jones. I think it was Jefferson that Williams took down low and also scored on him so there's that. Heise is a problem in his own way for people to score on. He probably irritates players more than you think because they feel like they should be able to score on him, but they struggle to.
I was wondering about this too recently. Houston is high in kenpom and torvik because those metrics don't actually care if you win or lose, they look at what was the expected result and how did you do in comparison?
This graphic shows the two factors they use for the NET ranking system.I was wondering about this too recently. Houston is high in kenpom and torvik because those metrics don't actually care if you win or lose, they look at what was the expected result and how did you do in comparison?
This page from NCAA themselves says explicitly that NET factors in "game results":
College basketball's NET rankings, explained
Here's everything you need to know about college basketball's NET ranking system.www.ncaa.com
Who knows what that means exactly, but I would interpret that statement as "whether the game was categorically won or lost is included explicitly as data". That is not the case for kenpom and torvik, at least as far as my understanding of those algorithms goes.
All this to say, it's odd to me in the current NET rankings a team that's 0-3 vs. Q1 is ranked so high among teams with 4+ Q1 wins and fewer losses.
Houston really doesn't have an impressive win against a "good" team yet. They have a lot of blowouts against bad-to-decent teams though. Their best win so far is probably home vs. BYU, who is #47 in kenpom and #48 in NET currently.
I hope all the negative posters about Heise see this.
Missing short has particularly been a problem for Heise. If the staff can pinpoint and fix that problem, he can turn into a scoring machine overnight. Opponents don't commit much defensive pressure to him (which is why he regularly gets those back-cut layup type plays once or twice a game, too -- he disappears off defense radar).
I think it's also similar to the phenomenon that 1st year transfers almost always shoot worse on the FT line than they did previously - which I have said previously I think has to do with the defensive intensity and focus, they are just so physically and mentally taxed from the defensive focus that their FT (and sometimes shooting) suffer.
Neither of these looks like a defender getting schooled.
Eh. He had big games in the Valley tournament at Enterprise Center and UNI played in several other NBA and large arenas when he was there and he didn't have a problem. Plus there are a couple Valley buildings with deep backgrounds (Bradley, Evansville, Indiana State) and he was just fine there.
I have noticed this with Heise as well. Oftentimes he will come in the game and start guarding the best player on the court and said player will start demanding the ball and attempting to go 1-on-1. Usually leads to a turnover or missed shot. Seen it several times this year.
