If you're a basketball fanatic I'm sure you've heard of the term "usage rate". If you haven't, here's a quick summary. Usage Rate is an estimate of the percentage of team plays used by a player while he was on the floor. "Used" consists of shooting the ball, turning the ball over, or getting to the free throw line. It measures the percentage of plays a player is involved in on the offensive side of the ball.
2016-2017:
Young: 30.9% Usage
Artis: 27 % Usage
These rates compare to the likes of James Harden (I believe he's around 35% this year) and Kristaps Porzingis (34% this year). Last season Westbrook had the highest usage rate in NBA history last year which was 41%. I know it's NCCA compared to NBA but a 31% usage rate and 27% usage rate for two guys on the same team? That's absurd.
Milligan: 18.4%
Cam: 17%
Jeter: 16%
Luther: 16%
Jones: 13%
These are average to poor usage rate numbers.. not a lot of usage isn't a bad thing, but it gives you a good indicator of who the offense flows through.
2015-16
Young: 27%
Artis: 25%
Still high, but nothing like this past season.
2014-15
Artis: 23%
Cam Wright: 22%
Young: 22%
Newkirk: 21%
Robinson: 17%
Much more balanced.
2013-14
Patterson: 29%
Zanna: 21%
Even when Lamar Patterson and Zanna dominated this year, they still weren't close to Artis and Young in combined usage rate.
2012-13
Woodall: 22%
Moore: 22%
Zanna: 22%
Patterson: 21%
Tell me this wasn't balanced? JD offense at its prime right here lol
2008-09 - skipping to this year, would've been closest to compare to this past season..
Sam Young: 29%
Blair 25%
Fields: 19%
So even when these guys dominated, they still had the ball in their hands much less than Artis and Young did this past season. It's extremely eye opening.
ACC Usage Rates 2016-17
#1 - Mike Young: 31%
#10 - Jamel Artis: 27%
This team won 4 conference games. This shows we didn't have any other players to go to, and that these kids were getting their shots up regardless of the outcome. They didn't care.
When Stallings had two NBA guys at Vandy
2015-16 Vandy
Jones: 26%
Baldwin: 25%
These were two of his better players he had and they had usage rates lower than Artis and Young.. Young at 31% is insanity.
2011-12 Vandy
John Jenkins (one of KS better players, nba talent) 26%
Ezeli (nba talent and champion) 25%
Young and Artis having high usage rates could've been attributed to a lot of things, but Kevin Stallings' offensive playcalling has NEVER involved usage rates this high.
It's safe to say that having a bench that had zero talent and having two kids that didn't care and didn't run the plays that were called was the reasoning for this. This isn't a defense for Kevin Stallings, but if you dig deeper into last year it's easy to find where the issues rooted from, and the main ones can't be pinned on the coach.
2016-2017:
Young: 30.9% Usage
Artis: 27 % Usage
These rates compare to the likes of James Harden (I believe he's around 35% this year) and Kristaps Porzingis (34% this year). Last season Westbrook had the highest usage rate in NBA history last year which was 41%. I know it's NCCA compared to NBA but a 31% usage rate and 27% usage rate for two guys on the same team? That's absurd.
Milligan: 18.4%
Cam: 17%
Jeter: 16%
Luther: 16%
Jones: 13%
These are average to poor usage rate numbers.. not a lot of usage isn't a bad thing, but it gives you a good indicator of who the offense flows through.
2015-16
Young: 27%
Artis: 25%
Still high, but nothing like this past season.
2014-15
Artis: 23%
Cam Wright: 22%
Young: 22%
Newkirk: 21%
Robinson: 17%
Much more balanced.
2013-14
Patterson: 29%
Zanna: 21%
Even when Lamar Patterson and Zanna dominated this year, they still weren't close to Artis and Young in combined usage rate.
2012-13
Woodall: 22%
Moore: 22%
Zanna: 22%
Patterson: 21%
Tell me this wasn't balanced? JD offense at its prime right here lol
2008-09 - skipping to this year, would've been closest to compare to this past season..
Sam Young: 29%
Blair 25%
Fields: 19%
So even when these guys dominated, they still had the ball in their hands much less than Artis and Young did this past season. It's extremely eye opening.
ACC Usage Rates 2016-17
#1 - Mike Young: 31%
#10 - Jamel Artis: 27%
This team won 4 conference games. This shows we didn't have any other players to go to, and that these kids were getting their shots up regardless of the outcome. They didn't care.
When Stallings had two NBA guys at Vandy
2015-16 Vandy
Jones: 26%
Baldwin: 25%
These were two of his better players he had and they had usage rates lower than Artis and Young.. Young at 31% is insanity.
2011-12 Vandy
John Jenkins (one of KS better players, nba talent) 26%
Ezeli (nba talent and champion) 25%
Young and Artis having high usage rates could've been attributed to a lot of things, but Kevin Stallings' offensive playcalling has NEVER involved usage rates this high.
It's safe to say that having a bench that had zero talent and having two kids that didn't care and didn't run the plays that were called was the reasoning for this. This isn't a defense for Kevin Stallings, but if you dig deeper into last year it's easy to find where the issues rooted from, and the main ones can't be pinned on the coach.
