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[QUOTE="44cuse, post: 2441314, member: 693"]
I also went in to say exactly what you said further down in the post.  It was late and a little unclear, I get that.  But the point, from a statistical definition perspective is that the AST isn’t the measure of pts.  FGM is which is what SWC was saying in his post.  That’s all I was saying there.  Now, you can argue it’s irrelevant, but they are two different things (even if, as you point out, they are 100% correlative).  ASTs by nature, as SWC points out in his response are imperfect because they rely on the judgement of humans (unlike FGM where you know implicitly), but I tend to think ASTs are pretty well judged at this point in the game and consistent from night to night.  What I should have said is that “the assist isn’t the actual point”, it’s precursor to a FGM.

The rest of your post is saying the same thing I was: “pass to the open guy for a dunk”.  Assists are good and there is data that show they more frequently lead to a higher FG%.

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