BlackIce wrote:OptimusOne6 wrote:Regardless, Harden isn't better than Melo and he is far more ball-dominant than he is. Harden's game would be affected more if you take away more of his touches with the ball than Melo would.
Check out the usage rate for both players, something like 28% (Harden) vs 34.4% (Melo). So that's patently false.
It would be false, if usage percentage actually determined how ball-dominant you were, which it doesn't.
Usage percentage does not determine how many times a player dribbles out a shot clock and stop the ball-movement like Harden always does. It shows you how many shots you've taken, turnovers, etc. not necessarily correlated with ball-dominance.
Melo was a ball-stopper in the past, but if anybody has seen him play this season, it has stopped and it hasn't been as bad as it was in seasons past. Harden has always been a ball-stopper though, even in OKC.