Willey Cauley Stein the least passed to player this season

[SacKings384]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-nba-players-no-one-passed-to-this-season/

 

[Bricklayer]

Yeah, Andre Roberson aside, who is a remarkable story as a "guard" who never touches the ball playing between two of the highest usage stars in the league, you can see that's largely a list of basket hanging garbage man bigs. And especially in our "dribble drive offense" with few plays called, and almost none inside, they are basically not part of the offense at all and jsut have to keep their hands up in case somebody gets cut off and wants to dump it off.

 

[kingsboi]

Can't say I'm surprised. I could of come to this conclusion just based on the eye test alone. I saw him waving his arms wide open under the basket numerous times through out the season only to go ignored. Rondo seemed to be the only one who found him for easy buckets.

 

[allrightythen]

Maybe this is part of the reason Demarcus Cousins loves him so .

In all seriousness this is exactly the type of guy I like having next to Cousins. He doesn't get the ball much but he still has a significant impact on the game because of his other skills along with with his size and hustle. I also think he's the type of player that is difficult to quantify value on specificallly because much of his impact is not seen on the stat-sheet.

 

[funkykingston]

Yeah, Andre Roberson aside, who is a remarkable story as a "guard" who never touches the ball playing between two of the highest usage stars in the league, you can see that's largely a list of basket hanging garbage man bigs. And especially in our "dribble drive offense" with few plays called, and almost none inside, they are basically not part of the offense at all and jsut have to keep their hands up in case somebody gets cut off and wants to dump it off.

Yep, that's pretty much it.

Notice that Kosta Koufos is just outside the top 10 in fewest passes per 36. Part of that is who Koufos (and WCS) is as a player and part of that is Karl's offensive scheme.

As I thought about it more, the two things about the Dribble Drive offense that probably hurt Cauley-Stein's development a bit are (1) the lack of post-ups and (2) the lack of pick-and-rolls.

The first hurt because it meant Willie was both not posting up and because he wasn't asked to defend the post up in practice so he didn't gain experience in either in team practices. The second hurt both Cauley-Stein and the team because WCS didn't get the reps to defend the P&R in practice since the offense didn't run them.

In fact it's probably why George used that switching scheme defensively. Otherwise you have to run a play that your offense doesn't really use just to practice against it and simply switching it made things easier.

 

[SacKings384]

Yeah, Andre Roberson aside, who is a remarkable story as a "guard" who never touches the ball playing between two of the highest usage stars in the league, you can see that's largely a list of basket hanging garbage man bigs. And especially in our "dribble drive offense" with few plays called, and almost none inside, they are basically not part of the offense at all and jsut have to keep their hands up in case somebody gets cut off and wants to dump it off.

Yeah. Looking at guys like DJ, Drummond, etc. WCS actually had a more polished offensive game than I thought he'd have, but he's still far away from having any sort of real postup game.

Curious as to why Koufos is also on that list. But my guess is with Boogie's league high usage it doesn't leave much for the rest of the bigs playing next to him.

 

[Bricklayer]

Yeah. Looking at guys like DJ, Drummond, etc. WCS actually had a more polished offensive game than I thought he'd have, but he's still far away from having any sort of real postup game.

Curious as to why Koufos is also on that list. But my guess is with Boogie's league high usage it doesn't leave much for the rest of the bigs playing next to him.

As I said, its more that any garbage or post up big in the dribble drive offense is never goig to touch the ball as a normal part of the offense. Only touch it a few seconds before shooting it.

Boogie was the huge exception because of course in order to make him fit, they took him out to the perimeter where he could catch the ball where any self-respecting dribble driver would.

 

[funkykingston]

As I said, its more that any garbage or post up big in the dribble drive offense is never goig to touch the ball as a normal part of the offense. Only touch it a few seconds before shooting it.

Boogie was the huge exception because of course in order to make him fit, they took him out to the perimeter where he could catch the ball where any self-respecting dribble driver would.

Yeah, as I've said a few times this season, Boogie was the 4 man in the dribble drive (who plays essentially the same role as the 2 & 3) and Koufos and WCS were the 5 men who were really just safety valves there for dump off passes from a drive.