[James Harden] Less turnover this season.

At least he waited a month and a half to bring Melo in instead!

Wait a second...

 

Since Harden has such a high Usage, and MDA talks about how he looks closer to team turnovers and doesn’t care if a higher majority are concentrated in his PGs, as long as the team numbers are acceptable, I think it’s better to track Harden based upon TOV%.

Look at how Green, Rondo, Rubio, Simmons and even Ingles fare against Harden on TOV%

This year

Rk	Player	TOV%	MP
1	Draymond Green	32.6	30.5
2	DeAndre Jordan	22.7	32.3
3	Rajon Rondo	21.5	25.3
4	Nicolas Batum	20.1	30.8
5	Ricky Rubio	19.8	29.3
6	Ben Simmons	19.8	33.6
7	Trae Young	19.3	29.3
8	Dennis Smith	18.9	27.9
9	Joe Ingles	18.6	32.9
10	Luka Doncic	18.5	33.7
11	James Harden	18.3	37.4
12	Jrue Holiday	17.9	36.3
13	Evan Turner	17.9	26.1
14	Lonzo Ball	17.7	26.6
15	DeAaron Fox	17.5	32.6
16	Isaiah Canaan	17.4	26.5
17	Kyle Lowry	17.4	33.9
18	Justise Winslow	17.3	27.4
19	Nikola Jokic	17.0	29.3
20	Karl-Anthony Towns	16.9	33.7

Last Year

Rk	Player	TOV%	MP
1	Rajon Rondo	22.7	26.2
2	Draymond Green	22.5	32.7
3	Ben Simmons	19.5	33.7
4	Elfrid Payton	18.5	28.7
5	Dragan Bender	18.1	25.2
6	Ricky Rubio	18.1	29.3
7	Joe Ingles	17.4	31.4
8	James Johnson	17.2	26.6
9	Kent Bazemore	17.0	27.5
10	DeAaron Fox	16.4	27.8
11	Jeff Teague	16.4	33.0
12	Russell Westbrook	16.4	36.4
13	Julius Randle	16.3	26.7
14	Eric Bledsoe	16.1	31.4
15	LeBron James	16.1	36.9
16	DeAndre Jordan	16.1	31.5
17	Andre Drummond	15.9	33.7
18	Kyle Anderson	15.8	26.7
19	Andre Iguodala	15.8	25.3
20	Caris LeVert	15.8	26.3
21	Nicolas Batum	15.6	31.0
22	Joel Embiid	15.6	30.3
23	Nikola Jokic	15.5	32.6
24	Taurean Waller-Prince	15.3	30.0
25	James Harden	15.1	35.4

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Harden had a tendency of throwing some lazy telegraphed passes every now and then, which were unforced turnovers and ones that he really just didn't need to have.

Haven't seen nearly as many of those this season, so that is probably helping.

 

Every player who is in the top 10 in TO is or will be in the HOF.

 

Not surprising when the team’s offense is predictable due to lack of talent.