My head asplode.

It is swinging the ball, to create an opportunity for the shot with the highest percentage.

Fundamental Basketball IS NOT – jacking up every possible shot, no matter how many defenders are on you, creating the lowest percentage opportunity available……..in an attempt to MIMIC M.J. (aka kobe the wanna-be).

Even assists themselves are already so dependent on other factors (passing to big men near the hoop who hits 55% of his shots is the easiest way to rack them up, even if passing to a 3-point shooter who sinks them at 37% provides a better rate of return to a team’s offense) that adding a layer to this just so LeBron and DWade can have some more stats that sound impressive but without any context at all in considering them (How many did MJ and Pippen’s teammates have? no one has a clue, but I bet it’s a ton) is just stupid.

Are teams really going to start trading for otherwise un-noteworthy PG’s because they have 1.3 hapg? No, because we all know the hockey assist is even far more dependent on the team’s style of play than just an assist, so it’s value in telling us anything helpful being done by the player is far too diluted in the vast majority of cases.

My vote is it makes those nerds and journalist feel important to come up with useless stuff that very few people can understand and even fewer people can apply. Kudos to the Heat of KISS!