We've been over this. There is a measurable correlation between assists and winning. It's not "just for fans." The last time you said this, I provided you with a peer-reviewed academic study saying as much yet you still deny it. Passing ability is a very important part of the game.
Blue teams win more than red teams. This is proven. So does it mean that if a red team changes uniform colors that they'll win more? And again, an assisted basket is worth how much more than an unassisted?
Until you can prove without doubt, which you can't, that an assisted basket is worth more, it's not, then your argument is just fan driven silliness and you have no understanding of basketball analytics or how they are used. Maybe read Oliver's book so your position is not one born of ignorance? Or not ..
It's a stylistic stat made for ignorant fans that has no real mathematical value. An assisted basket = 2 or 3 points. An unassisted basket = 2 or 3 points. There's no difference.
It's the reason every basketball analyst gauges assist percentage as a stylistic stat and a by product of team philosophy and not individual competency. Your example of assist ratio is not how they are formulated.
They don't care how many assists a player has. Because it doesn't matter. The better metric is how many assists a team has and more importantly where they are coming from. This shows their stylistic tendencies. They don't do this just to make you look ignorant. There's good reasoning for it.
Yes passing matters, because bad passes result in TO's. Yes winning teams probably have more assists because they make more baskets and less TO's. But what you posted means nothing. Now if you would have used an SOS weighted pace neutral assist ratio vs SOS weighted winning percentage it might mean something but you didn't. Because you don't understand analytics.
Regardless, his assist ratio is fine. The problem is his TO percentage which is a far better gauge of PG proficiency and winning and RJ's has been too high to not question. Look at Bronson Koening, is he an effective PG? His assist ratio is low. His TO ratio is exceptional.
and fwiw I will take Oliver's, Hollinger's, Pomeroy's and every NBA coach currently coaching and what they say about assists over your ideas. Maybe if you wrote a book on analytics or created a site that almost every teams uses I might take you seriously. But, until you do, I'll just view you as someone that doesn't understand which stats are valid.