Some aspects of basketball are a little easier to parse — after all, it’s easy to identify the shooter as the one “using” an offensive possession. Thus, it has customarily been the practice to ascribe all credit for an offensive possession to the shooter. Intuitively, this is understood to be an extremely broad generalization.
By subtly shifting the frame of analysis from examining which one player “used” a possession, we can instead look at all the players who were “involved” with the conclusion of a possession, whether via shot, foul or turnover.
The writer lists the "TruUsage" of the players from the two teams that made the Finals this past season. As well as OKC's. Added this note at the end of the article:
In the next week or so, we’ll publish sortable True Usage stats for the entire league for 2013-14 here on Nylon Calculus as a resource, so stay tuned for that.
More at the link:
http://nyloncalculus.com/2014/08/08/re- ... rue-usage/