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Message: [QUOTE="Orangutan, post: 3262219, member: 4946"] Really, the comparable player on the Lynx to Ogunbowale is Sims. Arike has a usage % of 28.6 and a true shooting % of 49.6. Sims is at 24.5 usg% and 48.8 TS% The proper comparison points for Arike are other high-usage guards. For guards who play at least 15 mpg with 23 or greater usg%, Arike's 49.6 TS% trails only DeShields (50.3) and Hayes (49.7). She's ahead of Sims, Hartley, Loyd, K. Mitchell, and Bentley. (EDD laps everyone with a preposterous 63.2 TS% on 25.2% usg but it's ridiculous that the official stats still class her as a guard. She's a power forward.) 23 is sort of an arbitrary place to draw the line, but I wanted to keep the group pretty limited to illustrate that it is difficult to score efficiently on a very high usage. Arike is ahead of all-stars like Sims and Loyd in that department and nipping at the heels of two more all-stars in DeShields and Hayes. If you broaden it out to guards with usage over 20%, Arike finishes mid-pack in TS% - 7th out of 17. The leader in that group is Kia Nurse who is just over the 20-mark at 20.3, which again underscores the point that there is generally an inverse correlation between usage and efficiency. 15th out of 17 is Arike's teammate Kaela Davis, which shows you why Dallas is happy to have Arike shoot instead. [/QUOTE]