Number of team passes per game is moderately correlated with assists and points off assists (.42 in each case) but number of team passes per game has a mildly negative correlation with total team points per game (-0.19).
Assists are only mildly correlated to total turnovers (.19) On quick check at 82games, it appears well more than half of total turnovers are not related in passing. Probably around 2% of passes results in a turnover.
Correlation between passes and wins is a negative 0.09. Correlation between assists and wins is .50. Correlation between turnovers and wins is -.25 (so reducing turnovers is a modest help).
Correlations related to passing, points and turnovers
Re: Correlations related to passing, points and turnovers
in 2015-16 according to stats.nba.com tracked passes, the utah jazz threw the most passes that season (28886), but had the 3rd fewest assists (1554):
https://stats.nba.com/teams/passing/?Se ... =AST&dir=1
https://stats.nba.com/teams/passing/?Se ... =AST&dir=1
Re: Correlations related to passing, points and turnovers
That is interesting. Same basic thing was true the previous season (the first under Quin Snyder). A bit less pronounced the season before that under Ty Corbin.
In 2015-16 Burks, Burke, Neto and the wings Hayward and Hood were not productive in terms of generating assists off of a lot of passing. A mid-season trade for Shelvin Mack helped some but not near enough. Most of these guys' assists per 36 minutes fell sharply under Snyder.
Synder and team improved over Ty Corbin's squad on the ftm/fga, offensive rebounding and turnover factors. They lost some of those improvements and efg% improvements came and went yr to yr. The offense is still average, with no meaningful net improvement from Synder's first season to his 5th. The defensive improvement went much further to elite but only took 2 years. There has been no meaningful regular season improvement in defensive ranking since year 2. Better playoff results after that though. Can they go further in the regular season and / or playoffs? They better. Maybe the new guys will help achieve more than what Quin and the existing cast could overall.
Rubio and whatever else got them to 20th of team assists in 2017-18 and 10th in 2018-19. The pass - assist ratios became more normal too. But now they start over. Rubio's assist per 36 minutes were down over 35% in his 1st year in SLC with Quin compared to last in Minny. Recovered halfway in yr 2. Will Conley's assist rate slip as well? Will there be changes or consequences if it does? Should there have been more changes and /or consequences previously?
In 2015-16 Burks, Burke, Neto and the wings Hayward and Hood were not productive in terms of generating assists off of a lot of passing. A mid-season trade for Shelvin Mack helped some but not near enough. Most of these guys' assists per 36 minutes fell sharply under Snyder.
Synder and team improved over Ty Corbin's squad on the ftm/fga, offensive rebounding and turnover factors. They lost some of those improvements and efg% improvements came and went yr to yr. The offense is still average, with no meaningful net improvement from Synder's first season to his 5th. The defensive improvement went much further to elite but only took 2 years. There has been no meaningful regular season improvement in defensive ranking since year 2. Better playoff results after that though. Can they go further in the regular season and / or playoffs? They better. Maybe the new guys will help achieve more than what Quin and the existing cast could overall.
Rubio and whatever else got them to 20th of team assists in 2017-18 and 10th in 2018-19. The pass - assist ratios became more normal too. But now they start over. Rubio's assist per 36 minutes were down over 35% in his 1st year in SLC with Quin compared to last in Minny. Recovered halfway in yr 2. Will Conley's assist rate slip as well? Will there be changes or consequences if it does? Should there have been more changes and /or consequences previously?