Alex Len didn’t score a point for Maryland in its 61-50 defeat of Georgia Tech on Sunday.
The Terrapins still fared better with him on the floor than anyone else.
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Maryland held a 15-point margin when the 7-foot-1 freshman was playing. Put another way, the Terps were outscored 25-21 when he wasn’t on the floor.
OK, put in one more compelling way: Maryland allowed half of Georgia Tech’s points in the 12 minutes Len wasn’t on the floor.
While this isn’t the best metric in a vacuum, here are Len’s plus-minus totals in his first six games:
Albany: +4
Samford: +7
Cornell: +16
at N.C. State: +9
Wake Forest: +1
Georgia Tech: +15
How much better Maryland is with Len in its rotation still remains to be seen. He wasn’t much of a factor offensively Sunday, taking only three shots. He still was a factor defensively, grabbing nine rebounds and blocking three shots.
One things there’s little question about: The Terps are better when Len’s on the floor. Six games worth of data certainly backs up the assertion.
The full plus-minus chart:
| Player | GT
| ACC
| Per Min.
| Season | Per Min.
|
| 4-Susskind | DNP
| –
| –
| -3 | -0.50 |
| 5-Faust | +5 | -20
| -0.40 | -9 | -0.02 |
| 10-Weijs | 0 | +6 | 0.40 | +31 | 0.15 |
| 11-Parker | 0 | -2 | -0.06 | -2 | -0.007 |
| 12-Stoglin | +7 | +16
| 0.17 | +76 | 0.15 |
13-Richmond
| DNP | –
| – | -2 | -0.17 |
| 14-Mosley | +14 | +27
| 0.29 | +26 | 0.05 |
| 15-Barks | DNP | – | –
| +1 | 0.13 |
| 21-Howard | +11 | +20 | 0.20 | +38 | 0.17 |
| 22-Dillard | DNP | – | – | -5 | -5.00 |
| 23-Auslander | DNP | –
| – | -7 | -0.09 |
| 24-Thomas | DNP | –
| – | -14 | -0.24 |
| 25-Len | +15 | +20 | 0.23 | +52 | 0.32 |
| 30-Pankey | -5 | -16
| -0.32 | -68 | -0.20 |
| 35-Padgett | +8 | +4
| 0.05 | +31 | 0.08 |
– Patrick Stevens
