I never even mentioned McLemore. I just think the metric should be used across more similar players.
Here's some random stats that actually back up your argument.
Points per possession and the turnover percentage for the pick and roll ball handler.
Barnes 1.06 - 12.9%
Hield .92 - 14.7% (last year .77 - 15.1%)
Bjelica .86 - 21.4%
Bogie .80 - 19.7%
Ferrell .78 12.2%
CoJo .78 - 15.4%
Fox .76 - 15.4% (last year .88 - 15.3%)
So far, Buddy has not only scored more on pick and rolls but he's turned the ball over less than Fox in that situation. Barnes has been by far the best as the pick and roll ball handler but his is a smaller sample size so it could just be luck.
Isolation ppp and TO%.
Fox 1.07 - 18.6%
Hield 1.00 - 10%
Bogie 0.91 - 9.1%
Barnes .89 - 15.1%
Bjelica .77 - 23.5%
Bagley .73 - 13.3%
Oddly, Hield and Bogie are tied for the best isolation players on the team.
Transition ppp and TO%
Holmes 1.73 - 0%
Ariza 1.37 - 2.9%
Bjelica 1.34 - 10.7%
Fox 1.17 - 15.4%
Bagley 1.07 - 7.1%
Barnes 1.07 - 11.8%
Bogie 1.05 - 9.8%
Buddy 1.01 - 14%
Holmes is nearly perfect in transition. Buddy is our worst transition player out of our main guys.
Points per possession percentiles for Buddy. This season vs. last season.
Spot up 76% / 88%
Isolation 75% / 71%
Off screens 73% / 83%
Pick and roll ball handler 68% / 36%
Transition 33% / 70%
Hand offs 11% / 81%
Cutter 1% / 47% (only does it 3% of the time so it's not as bad as it seems)
Hield's numbers are down across the board when compared to the rest of the league. His pick and roll has improved substantially but everything else has dropped, other than iso's which went up by just a little bit. His transition and spot up drops have hurt the worst because those are two of his most frequent plays. Hand offs has the biggest drop from last year but that's not a play he's involved in all that much, so like the cutter stat, it's not as bad as it seems.
The gripe should really be that he needs his percentiles to be more like what they were last season where he was 70-88% in most of the categories. Those are the kinds of numbers he needs to put up to offset his defense and make his contract worthwhile. The numbers he's putting up this year are alright but they don't really offset his defense enough to justify the contract (or winning games regularly). He just has to be more efficient to play winning basketball.
Here's some random stats that actually back up your argument.
Points per possession and the turnover percentage for the pick and roll ball handler.
Barnes 1.06 - 12.9%
Hield .92 - 14.7% (last year .77 - 15.1%)
Bjelica .86 - 21.4%
Bogie .80 - 19.7%
Ferrell .78 12.2%
CoJo .78 - 15.4%
Fox .76 - 15.4% (last year .88 - 15.3%)
So far, Buddy has not only scored more on pick and rolls but he's turned the ball over less than Fox in that situation. Barnes has been by far the best as the pick and roll ball handler but his is a smaller sample size so it could just be luck.
Isolation ppp and TO%.
Fox 1.07 - 18.6%
Hield 1.00 - 10%
Bogie 0.91 - 9.1%
Barnes .89 - 15.1%
Bjelica .77 - 23.5%
Bagley .73 - 13.3%
Oddly, Hield and Bogie are tied for the best isolation players on the team.
Transition ppp and TO%
Holmes 1.73 - 0%
Ariza 1.37 - 2.9%
Bjelica 1.34 - 10.7%
Fox 1.17 - 15.4%
Bagley 1.07 - 7.1%
Barnes 1.07 - 11.8%
Bogie 1.05 - 9.8%
Buddy 1.01 - 14%
Holmes is nearly perfect in transition. Buddy is our worst transition player out of our main guys.
Points per possession percentiles for Buddy. This season vs. last season.
Spot up 76% / 88%
Isolation 75% / 71%
Off screens 73% / 83%
Pick and roll ball handler 68% / 36%
Transition 33% / 70%
Hand offs 11% / 81%
Cutter 1% / 47% (only does it 3% of the time so it's not as bad as it seems)
Hield's numbers are down across the board when compared to the rest of the league. His pick and roll has improved substantially but everything else has dropped, other than iso's which went up by just a little bit. His transition and spot up drops have hurt the worst because those are two of his most frequent plays. Hand offs has the biggest drop from last year but that's not a play he's involved in all that much, so like the cutter stat, it's not as bad as it seems.
The gripe should really be that he needs his percentiles to be more like what they were last season where he was 70-88% in most of the categories. Those are the kinds of numbers he needs to put up to offset his defense and make his contract worthwhile. The numbers he's putting up this year are alright but they don't really offset his defense enough to justify the contract (or winning games regularly). He just has to be more efficient to play winning basketball.
