Ferry Avenue wrote:This team needs to work to get Maxey more involved offensively in every game.
Multiple regression with point differential (win or loss margin) as the dependent variable and with scoring by 1) Embiid, 2) Harden, 3) Harris, 4) Maxey, and 5) the bench as the independent variables reveals that the only significant predictor of point differential for this team in the games James Harden has played is Tyrese Maxey's scoring (p = 0.01). All other independent variables are non-significant in predicting point differential. This team rises and falls with Tyrese Maxey.
When you watch this team play a game and it's gone through some significant period of time in which Maxey hasn't taken an expected number of shots (i.e., the first half yesterday), you can expect that to be either 1) a scoring drought for the team overall, and/or 2) a significant part of the loss of a game. Certainly there will be exceptions to the rule, but the rule determines that Maxey needs to be a significant focus of the offensive gameplan throughout games.
After last night's game the above has changed such that scoring by Maxey, Harden, and the bench are significant predictors of point differential. Maxey's scoring remains the strongest predictor and accounts for 27.5% of the variance in the team's point differential (with the other variables included) in the games Harden has played.
