The simplest way to be a great offensive basketball player is to take a lot of shots and make a lot of shots (see: James Harden). Of course, that is easier said than done. Getting your own shot is difficult and tiring, not to mention hunting exclusively for your own points can be selfish and not conducive to team basketball. And yet, we come back to what Harden is doing this season, more or less resetting the expectations for what is possible from a shots taken and made perspective. His absurd stat lines lead me to this article, where the goal is to examine the relationship between player usage and player efficiency, for both the NBA as a whole and the Sixers specifically.
Usage and Efficiency: Is There an Efficiency Cliff?
