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Shane Battier is "stressed out" about his offense!

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by t_mac1, Feb 7, 2012.

  1. DdotConrad503

    DdotConrad503 Member

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    Battier has offense? :confused:
     
  2. pmac

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    If this is the only criteria for an efficient offensive player than efficient offense is very overrated in terms of helping a team's overall offensive effectiveness.
     
  3. JimRaynor55

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    Low-usage, high-efficiency players have their place in a good team. The stars will get their shots, and the leftovers (spot-up 3's, put backs, open layups near the basket, etc) will be picked up by role players. Almost no team has an even distribution of shots; the FGAs are usually concentrated in the 1-2 players with the offensive talent to handle that kind of volume shooting. Every team has low-usage players whether they like it or not.

    A player like Battier, back in his true No-Stats All-Star days with us, was a great complement to a high volume star like Yao.

    He should be a great complement to guys like LeBron and Bosh. Mario Chalmers and James Jones are basically playing that same role on offense, to a ridiculously efficient degree. Unfortunately for Battier and all his fans, he seems to have completely lost his offensive talent. But make no mistake about it, Battier once had offensive talent.
     
  4. durvasa

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    I agree there is a relationship between player usage and impact on team's overall offensive efficiency. Dean Oliver, who developed the formula for individual offensive efficiency in the first place, estimated that 1% increase in usage resulted in 0.12 increase in team efficiency on average, or an extra 0.60 for the individual's offensive efficiency. Another study by Eli Whitus (who, by the way, was hired by the Rockets subsequently) on this can be found here. He found that, on average, for every additional 1% of usage, there is a 0.25 increase in team wide efficiency (which would correspond to a +1.25 at the individual level, I guess).

    Basketball-reference.com says that Battier's offensive efficiency as a Rocket was 117 and his usage was 11.5% (or -8.5% relative to average usage of 20%). Incorporating Oliver's finding, we could deduct from Battier's offensive efficiency accordingly. His adjusted ORTG would become 117 - 0.6*8.5, or 111.9. If we used Whitus's result instead, we might adjust it to 117 - 1.25*8.5, or 106.3. The Rockets team offensive efficiency from 06/07-09/10 was 108.0. So, Battier might have helped or hurt the offense, depending on which adjustment we trust more (his publicly available adjusted offensive +/- rating was positive, for what its worth).
     
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