08-30-2023, 01:51 PM
(08-30-2023, 12:48 PM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: If you aren’t asked back (or paid to leave…McGee), there is a good chance he was talking about you. Reggie and Bertans are gone too, so it could be a host of players (including Wood)They’ve been trying to trade THJ too.
There are more ways to “play for yourself” than just shot attempts, but I was curious if anyone had a shot per minute rate that stood out. For reference, Luka gets off .60 shots a minute. Kyrie in Dallas was .50 shots a minute (or a shot every two minutes). Josh and Reggie are much lower at .25 or a shot every four minutes.
THJ was .40 before the AS break and .35 after. That is the kind of adjustment you might expect when adding a higher usage star. Wood was .40 before and after Kyrie arrived. So, no adjustment. But, almost all of his minutes came with one of Luka/Kyrie sitting. The one that jumped out at me was Hardy. He shoots at the same rate per minute as Kyrie…a shot every two minutes. Fortunately, he hit them at a high rate. Between that and his super high TO rate, I think I get a better understanding of why he has so much competition on the roster.