Post by Super King on Mar 19, 2011 14:58:26 GMT -6
By my money he'll be our best player and one of the absolute best in the league come next season. Here's a glimpse of just how good he was this season:
statsheet.com/mcb/conferences/horizon/player_stats?season=2010-2011&games=all&stat=2
That's a short repository of Horizon League shooting statistics. Tony Meier was the league leader in True Shooting Percentage, Effective Shooting Percentage, and 3-point shooting percentage. He was 7th in the league in free throw percentage.
Here are some more:
statsheet.com/mcb/conferences/horizon/player_stats?season=2010-2011&games=all&stat=7
Those are efficiency ratings. Meier was fourth in the conference in Offensive Rating (119.9) despite not even registering in the other cumulative categories.
Meier's season this year rather interestingly mirrored Anthony Hill's junior season. while he was very effective all season long, and consistently the third-best player on the team, down the stretch he was absolutely magnificent, scoring in double figures in five consecutive games (four of which were at least 15 points), which wasn't even the longest such stretch of the year for him -- he went on a six-game double-figures run earlier on, from mid-December to mid-January. The streak included probably the two finest performances of his college career, the 28-point, 8-rebound game he put up against Cleveland State and the 19-point, 4-rebound, 5-assist game against Northwestern in which he made 7 of the 9 shots he took.
When Anthony Hill went on his binge at the end of last season, it served as an appetizer for his 2010-2011 campaign in which he surpassed the expectations he set during his torrid stretch run. I think the same can be said for Meier. Both Hill and Meier were fighting for shots at their position, the most significant combatant of which will have departed the next season. When James Eayrs left, Hill became the primary post player in the team, and maybe in the Horizon League. And while Meier will still have competition out on the wing, the absense of the shot-stealing Tone Boyle, who shot 9 percentage points worse from 3 than Meier did, should free him up to take some of the 234 3-point field goals that Tone Boyle attempted, the 22nd-most in the entire nation.
But Meier has a significant advantage over Anthony Hill, namely that as a Junior he was a far more complete and far more effective basketball player than Hill was in his third year. Hill averaged just 9 points per game in his Junior season; Meier averaged 12. And while I don't expect Meier to take a six-point-per-game jump, a 2-point average increase is a reasonable expectation considering his accomplished sharpshooting and Tone Boyle's absence. Especially if he gets used at the 3 a little more, as some of us hope.
Put simply, if Tony Meier gets his shots next year and comes reasonably close to his shooting accomplishments from the 2010-2011 season, he could be one of the two or three deadliest, if not best, players in the league. He's a very unassuming basketball player and has a great tendency to get lost in space out on the wing. If he can learn to create a little more with the dribble and make his way to the line -- he was fourth on the team in free throws attempted, and Anthony Hill's absence will make it imperative for other players to find the free throw stripe -- he can be an almost unstoppable offensive force. Considering the way the pick-and-roll is utilized in Jeter's offense, the opportunities should be there for Kaylon to find Meier slashing to the basket quite often.
He's also only 271 points shy of 1,000 for his career, meaning he would need to average a smidge over 9 points per game in a 30-game season to become the 25th player in UWM history to reach the milestone.
statsheet.com/mcb/conferences/horizon/player_stats?season=2010-2011&games=all&stat=2
That's a short repository of Horizon League shooting statistics. Tony Meier was the league leader in True Shooting Percentage, Effective Shooting Percentage, and 3-point shooting percentage. He was 7th in the league in free throw percentage.
Here are some more:
statsheet.com/mcb/conferences/horizon/player_stats?season=2010-2011&games=all&stat=7
Those are efficiency ratings. Meier was fourth in the conference in Offensive Rating (119.9) despite not even registering in the other cumulative categories.
Meier's season this year rather interestingly mirrored Anthony Hill's junior season. while he was very effective all season long, and consistently the third-best player on the team, down the stretch he was absolutely magnificent, scoring in double figures in five consecutive games (four of which were at least 15 points), which wasn't even the longest such stretch of the year for him -- he went on a six-game double-figures run earlier on, from mid-December to mid-January. The streak included probably the two finest performances of his college career, the 28-point, 8-rebound game he put up against Cleveland State and the 19-point, 4-rebound, 5-assist game against Northwestern in which he made 7 of the 9 shots he took.
When Anthony Hill went on his binge at the end of last season, it served as an appetizer for his 2010-2011 campaign in which he surpassed the expectations he set during his torrid stretch run. I think the same can be said for Meier. Both Hill and Meier were fighting for shots at their position, the most significant combatant of which will have departed the next season. When James Eayrs left, Hill became the primary post player in the team, and maybe in the Horizon League. And while Meier will still have competition out on the wing, the absense of the shot-stealing Tone Boyle, who shot 9 percentage points worse from 3 than Meier did, should free him up to take some of the 234 3-point field goals that Tone Boyle attempted, the 22nd-most in the entire nation.
But Meier has a significant advantage over Anthony Hill, namely that as a Junior he was a far more complete and far more effective basketball player than Hill was in his third year. Hill averaged just 9 points per game in his Junior season; Meier averaged 12. And while I don't expect Meier to take a six-point-per-game jump, a 2-point average increase is a reasonable expectation considering his accomplished sharpshooting and Tone Boyle's absence. Especially if he gets used at the 3 a little more, as some of us hope.
Put simply, if Tony Meier gets his shots next year and comes reasonably close to his shooting accomplishments from the 2010-2011 season, he could be one of the two or three deadliest, if not best, players in the league. He's a very unassuming basketball player and has a great tendency to get lost in space out on the wing. If he can learn to create a little more with the dribble and make his way to the line -- he was fourth on the team in free throws attempted, and Anthony Hill's absence will make it imperative for other players to find the free throw stripe -- he can be an almost unstoppable offensive force. Considering the way the pick-and-roll is utilized in Jeter's offense, the opportunities should be there for Kaylon to find Meier slashing to the basket quite often.
He's also only 271 points shy of 1,000 for his career, meaning he would need to average a smidge over 9 points per game in a 30-game season to become the 25th player in UWM history to reach the milestone.
