It’s something I’ve never quite understood. Despite his miserable offensive performances over the past two years, Stanley Johnson’s net rating always tends to be about even. Last year it was -.4, the year prior it was .2.
How does that happen? Over that stretch, Johnson had a true shooting percentage of 46 percent. Here’s the list of players who got 3,000 minutes worth of playing time over the past two years and had a true shooting percentage of less than 47 percent:
Johnson was probably the worst offensive player in the league to get as large of a role that he had.