og15 wrote:Why wouldn't that be justifiable when he's the point guard? Usage as a stat is not just about shots attempted
Because outside of shots attempted the only thing counted for usg% is TOV, Minutes played and FT attempts.
PGs have the ball more time in their hands, but usg% rate only considers the time you finished a play, so basically Westbrook called his own number more than it was necessary. If this is true there are 4 options for him having a bigger USG%:
1. he's having a ton of Turnovers
2. he's taking more shots
3. he's playing sustantial more time than KD
4. combinations of 1,2 and 3.
All 4 options are awful, we can compare this with PGs who also are limited when playing off ball, like Chris Paul, who had an USG% of 25% while on the most efficient offense of all time with Harden.
JN61 wrote:
I'm not sure if you know how usage works. When you have less offensive threats on your team as an offensive player, especially as scorer + playmaker, your usage should be naturally higher than player who plays with several offensive threats on the floor at any given time. Curry has no playmaking responsibilities, especially during that era.
This would be a great argument if you could see real reductions in Westbrook usg% across his career, but in his OKC years his usage was similar with KD/Harden and with KD on solo and shoot to stratospheric level without KD. Westbrook posted an stupid usage of 34% with Paul George and Carmelo "still 3rd option in his mind" Anthony.
He had a bigger usg% than Paul George too while in OKC and had the third biggest usage of his career with the rockets.
