Ugh- your stupidity is apparently bottomless. Not sure if you are trolling or just really stupid- guessing the latter. You are arguing Butler is to blame for the Bulls having a bottom five offense. Butler has taken more shots than Pau and Rose- thus he's to blame. Very simple and very stupid logic on your part. . Ironic that you are accusing another poster of not understanding Pace or TS- when you can not comprehend efficiency. Let's break it down for you and destroy your stupid argument once and for all:
Per 36:
Butler: FGA: 15.1, Points: 20.7
Pau: FGA: 16.3:, Points: 18.9
Rose: FGA: 16.9, Points 15.8
Pau and Rose- per 36- shoot more than Butler and score less efficiently. That is not fucking arguable. Were Pau and Rose to score at league average efficiency- Bulls offense would be top ten- that is not fucking arguable. Bulls offense is in the toilet because their two highest volume shooters are not efficient.
Now- go off and do some rudimentary work on what constitutes efficient scoring and then come back and make some more comments. Or better yet- stop posting because you are fucking clueless.
Here is the equation for TS: Pts/(2*(FGA + (.44*FTA)))
Here is the equation to determine possessions: .96 * (FGA + (.44*FTA) - OR + TO)
If you actually remove the 0.44 normalizer and run the numbers for players with their true and one % you get far different results. Both pace and TS are based on this 0.44 normalizer. That is why those stats are shit. You don't even understand the basics of what you are talking about.
Usage, what we were talking about, actual has the 0.44 twice and another 0.33 normailizer.
You are trying to make a case with data you don't understand at all. Here is the problem with what you are typing. Butler has the ~15 shots a game, but he also has another another 100 FTs. Now he only has 16 and one attempts, not counting tonight's game against that awful Bucks team. Butler has another ~2 possessions a game that are not "shots", but they are possessions. When you factor that in; Butler is actually taking the most possessions offensively that either end in a shot or a FT attempt.
If you actually understood the data you would know that Butler does have a higher real usage rate on the Bulls, if you remove all of the BS 0.44 normalizer crap.
There is no use in trying to discuss this with you. You don't understand the data. Butler is the primary possession taker on the Bulls and the Bulls are a bottom tier offensive team.
So lets go a little deeper.
Butler this season is shooting .317 on shots take between 10'-15'. On shots 16'-inside the 3pt line he is .425.
DeMar Derozan, who by no imagination is a good shooter is .440 on shots take between 10'-15'. On shots 16'-inside the 3pt line he is .343.
So lets take another step. Butler is assisted on ~53% of his makes.
Derozan is assisted on 31%.
If you look at SG/SF that score at least 20 ppg the list is: (assist %/10-15 foot %/16-3pt% )
Thompsn .807/471/425
Wiggins .504/390/350
Butler .529/317/425
Derozan .310/440/343
Leonard .601/467/392
Anthony .368/438/409
George .441/280/404
Durant .563/495/462
James .408/314/373
Harden .298/441/381
Only 3 of those players are assisted at a higher rate (Thompson, Leonard, Durant) All 3 of them have top tier PGs.
Paul George (coming off a major injury so I feel a bit odd about adding him to this list at all) Lebron James and Wiggins are the only ones who are worse jump shooters. So of the 10 SG/SF show average 20PPG Butler and Wiggins is the only ones in the bottom 4 in both assist % and shooting.
I have said this before. All last season actually. When you get to the playoffs and the last 5 minutes you have to be able to make shots. Good teams are not going to commit stupid fouls and refs swallow the whistles. Butler is not good at creating his own shot and making jump shots when you compare him to his peers. This is why you get the bottom 5 offensive when Butler is top possession taker on a team. Especially a team without a dominant PG.
