Mid-Season Stud Mix

[brewcity77]

Henry should shoot less to make him more efficient.  Luke should stay on the floor so he can shoot more.

But that doesn't mean that your most efficient player is your best player.  Maybe if Luke was able to stay on the floor, Henry wouldn't have to take so many shots.

That's a statistical fallacy because the percentage only counts the shots you take when you are on the floor. That's why Sacar Anim has a higher usage rate (16.6%) than Sandy Cohen (14.9%) despite Cohen having taken 99 more shots than Anim.

I think the problem is more the team not doing a good job at getting the ball in to Luke. Henry's tendency to come out to the perimeter makes it easy to get him the ball. But the reality is we would likely be better served by working harder and using more of the shot clock to get the ball inside to our more efficient player than allowing less efficient players to shoot early.

Interesting that the two fasted paced teams in the league (us and St. John's) are the two worst in terms of offensive efficiency. Both teams would likely be better served slowing their pace and working for more efficient shots. If you aren't particularly good at scoring the basketball, the last thing you want to do is speed the pace of the game and give the opposition more chances per game to expose that deficiency.

[GGGG]

That's a statistical fallacy because the percentage only counts the shots you take when you are on the floor. That's why Sacar Anim has a higher usage rate (16.6%) than Sandy Cohen (14.9%) despite Cohen having taken 99 more shots than Anim.

I'm not talking statistics.  Luke needs to stay on the floor more to utilize his efficiency. 

[GooooMarquette]

I'm not talking statistics.  Luke needs to stay on the floor more to utilize his efficiency.

Bingo.  To even get in the argument about being our best player, Luke needs to stay on the court.  In six of our last seven games, he has been under 30 minutes, usually due to foul trouble.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

If you go strictly by value add to decide who is the "best" player, Josh Scott of Colorado is the third best player in the country.  http://www.valueaddbasketball.com/

Value add is an important stat (Buddy Hield and Ben Simmons are #1 and 2), but it is not the only indicator of who the "best" players are.

Value Add isn't meant to compare players between two different teams. Value add calculates how valuable to a specific team a player is. Josh Scott is that high because he is so much better than his mediocre teammates. If you put him on say Oklahoma, his value add would drop immensely. Its not perfect but I think value add can tell you who the best players on each team are. For us, I think that's Luke. Henry brings more positives than Luke but he also brings a lot more negatives.