Jim Jackson

And now once we start breaking that number down, a high usage rate, now again, that takes in a lot of factors, but a James Harden, a Russell Westbrook, a Luka Doncic, a Jalen Brunson, because they have the ball in their hands a lot more, and those analytics are going to look different.

And they're going to use those numbers to...

uh make a point about a person or to make another point about a person that they're too ball dominant and that's a great question too because throughout the game in history different guys have dominated the ball a little bit more but it wasn't looked up i don't know if it was looked at it the same way it is in today's game because they're a little bit more isolations

you know, in some situation.

And a player like a Jalen Brunson, who does dominate the ball, but still make plays, still make shots, big time.

So it's a confluence, Dan.

Here's the thing.

Jalen Brunson dominates, but yet, if you're Mike Brown, if you're Thibodeau, man, I gotta have the ball in my best player's hand.

And the way their team is built,

Who else, now that Cat is doing his thing, but before, is going to facilitate?

Who else at the end of the shot clock is really going to go get their shot?

So it's a catch-22, depending on how your team is made up.

Yeah, you can because this is the beauty about the game of basketball, especially somebody like Jalen Brunson.

who doesn't rely on athleticism to be able to make him the kind of player that he is.

So give a lot of credit to his father, Rick Brunson, when he was younger to understand the use your ability in between your ears to understand space angles, how to create shots.

OK, so you take the number one player in high school point guard watch.

He could have went anywhere, Dan, but he chose to go to Villanova.

Ryan Archidiakono was the starting point guard at that time.

Jalen Brunson could have started for 800 other schools, but he chose to go there.

Why?