Talk to any coach or scout and they’ll tell you that while raw box scores statistics can be helpful in assessing player value, there’s a lot of things that happen on an NBA floor that will never show up in the game’s basic statistics. As the focus of statistics in basketball conversations has widened over the last decade, there’s been a call for the NBA and its partners to publish different kinds of metrics, from which the NBA’s Hustle page was born, along with the myriad of other statistics one can find on any number of websites.
In particular, an interesting statistic is Screen Assists, which gives more shine to big guys who set a ton of screens in pick-and-roll for their superstar guards.