Edey Card Debuts with 23 pts, 17 reb, 5 blocks and Draws 4 Fouls on 11-time NBA All-Star

The match-up of 6-foot-8, 11 time all-NBA player Dolph Schayes against 7-foot-4 2024 player of the year Zach Edey stayed close at 34-39 until there were 28 possessions left in the game. However, at that point Edey drew a forth foul on Schayes and New York University 1948 had to switch to put 6'1 Ray Lumpp on him.

Purdue pulled away from that point - winning 74-53 in the debut of both cards, and Edey finished with 23 points, 17 rebounds and 5 blocked shots. Much work is done to balance eras, including our "dunk ranges," and playing the game dispels the misconception among many fans that "shooting used to be much better" than it is today.

As an example in this game, NYC averaged hitting 25 of 86 shots, shooting below 30% for the season, and they were a very good team at 22-4 that had been national runner-up a few years earlier in Dolph Schayes freshman season. Below the box score of Purdue advancing is our preview of the game.

 

Pos	New York University 1948	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Season Actual
1-PG	Joe Dolhon	7	0	2	3	4	2	2	1	3	8.2 pts, 6'0
2-SG	Don Forman	9	1	2	2	4	3	2	0	2	11.9 pts, 5'10
3-SF	Joel Kaufman	4	0	2	0	0	5	1	1	2	8.3 pts, 6'3
4-PF	Ray Lumpp	12	0	4	4	6	12	1	2	4	17.1 pts, 6'1
5-C	Dolph Schayes	13	1	5	0	0	10	0	1	1	13.7 pts, 6'8
1-PG	Tom Kelly	6	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	2	7.1 pts, 6'0
2-SG	Joe DeBonis	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2.7 pts
3-SF		0
4-PF		0
5-C		0
	13 Turnovers	53	2	19	9	14	34	6	5	15
Pos	Purdue 2024		3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Season Actual
1-PG	Braden Smith	13	1	4	2	2	4	1	0	4	12 pts, 6'0
2-SG	Lance Jones	7	1	2	0	0	5	2	0	3	11.9 pts, 6'1
3-SF	Fletcher Loyer	10	2	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	10.6 pts, 6'4
4-PF	Mason Gillis	2	0	1	0	0	4	0	2	1	6.7 pts, 6'6
5-C	Zach Edey	23	0	9	5	9	17	0	5	1	24.9 pts, 7'4
1-PG	Ethan Morton	3	0	1	1	2	2	1	0	1	0.7 pts, 6'7
2-SG	Myles Colvin	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	3.4 pts, 6'5
3-SF	Camden Heide	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	3.3 pts, 6'7
4-PF	Trey Kaufman-Renn	8	0	3	2	2	1	0	0	2	6.4 pts, 6'9
5-C	Caleb Furst	4	0	2	0	0	5	0	0	1	2.2 pts, 6'10
	13 Turnovers	74	4	26	10	15	42	4	7	16

First the setup for the game.

One reason we try to play each team once is catch any tweaks, and there were a couple of them for NYU. We needed to increase the Stamina to get high enough to cover all minutes in the game with only seven player cards. The +2 for Purdue and -21 for NYC lets you know Purdue could be about a 21-point favorite in this game - which we set up as the top newly created against the 16th best team - or overall the 232nd best team in the game against the 63rd of all time. 

The other change we made is flipping the Power Forward and Center 4th and 5th spot to line Dolph Schayes up against Zach Edey for this game. Schayes is obviously not as tall as Edey - coming in at 6-foot-8, but he was an NBA All-Star 11 years in a row so gives a classic match-up at center.

As for Edey, note that his 1-15 offensive rebound range is so strong that he will not only always get a "high rebound" reading, but he also will great the offensive rebound if the rebound chart gives one of the other Purdue players a chance for the offensive rebound but a "6" comes up on the 1-6 roll - which his teammates would not have in their range but Edey will grab.