Alex Len might not be playing well of late.
Maryland still played well with him on the floor on Saturday.
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Granted, he was nowhere to be seen when Virginia Tech narrowed a double-digit margin in the final five minutes of what wound up a 73-69 Maryland win. But take a look at his stints on the floor and how the Terrapins fared:
15:54 to 11:01 (1H): Terps 10-9 (from 8-2 to 18-11)
7:12 to 5:50 (1H): Tied 2-2 (from 24-13 to 26-15)
3:50 to 1:38 (1H): Terps 4-0 (from 28-19 to 32-19)
14:11 to 9:34 (2H): Terps 15-13 (from 36-29 to 51-42)
Total: Terps 31-24 over 13:04
What’s interesting here is even though Len made his biggest difference on defense early in the season, his presence coincided with better offense from Maryland on Saturday.
Consider:
Percentage of Maryland’s minutes played by Len: 32.7
Percentage of Maryland’s scoring while Len played: 42.5
Percentage of Virginia Tech’s scoring while Len played: 34.8
Of course, it’s just one game. But it’s curious nonetheless.
The full rundown:
| Player | VT
| ACC
| Per Min.
| Season | Per Min.
|
| 4-Susskind | DNP
| –
| –
| -3 | -0.50 |
| 5-Faust | -1 | -37
| -0.33 | -42 | -0.08 |
| 10-Weijs | +3 | +16 | 0.42 | +43 | 0.18 |
| 11-Parker | -6 | -33 | -0.42 | -29 | -0.08 |
| 12-Stoglin | +4 | +2
| 0.01 | +56 | 0.09 |
13-Richmond
| INJ | –
| – | -2 | -0.17 |
| 14-Mosley | +5 | +17
| 0.09 | +8 | 0.01 |
| 15-Barks | DNP | – | –
| +1 | 0.13 |
| 21-Howard | +3 | +12 | 0.06 | +11 | 0.03 |
| 22-Dillard | DNP | – | – | -5 | -5.00 |
| 23-Auslander | DNP | –
| – | -7 | -0.09 |
| 24-Thomas | DNP | –
| – | -14 | -0.24 |
| 25-Len | +7 | +14 | 0.11 | +45 | 0.21 |
| 30-Pankey | -4 | -38
| -0.30 | -99 | -0.23 |
| 35-Padgett | +9 | -13
| -0.09 | +2 | 0.004 |
– Patrick Stevens
