BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Monday morning thoughts

Here's a classic case of where the stats don't tell the whole story. In game last Friday (October 8) between Air21 and San Miguel that the Beermen won 100-86, the Express won the rebounding department 61-59, assists 20-18, steals 7-6, second chance points 12-11, and turnover points 19-15. San Miguel won because they shot much better from the field 47.8% to 31.6%. And SMB had more free throw attempts 28-52 for 53.8% to Air21's 20-32 for 62.5%. Any time the Beermen rack up a huge tally in points then they are going to win.

I wonder if given the new rules on officiating if we could keep track of complaints as a new stat. I thought that even if Air21 ruled the boards they could have done a better job if they follow the flight of the ball instead of running back down on defense after taking a jumpshot.

There are currently 134 players in 10 PBA teams. I tried breaking it down in a certain way. Here goes:

60 come from UAAP schools
20 from the NCAA
21 from other leagues
33 Fil-foreigners

Of the 60 UAAP players:
Ateneo has the most with 13
La Salle has 11
UE with 10
UST with 9
FEU with 8
UP with 4
Adamson with 3
and NU with 2.

For the NCAA players:
Letran has 7
San Sebastian 6
San Beda with 5 (not counting Borgie Hermida who has yet to suit up)
College of Saint Benilde with 2.

For the non-top two, PCU has 4 alums in the pros while St. Francis of Assisi has 3.

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