Tyrese Haliburton: Basketball’s Next Big Mystery or Hidden Superstar?
Billups serves as the ultimate case study for why field-goal percentage is a poor measure of efficiency. In 2005-06, Billups had a field-goal percentage of 41.8% – good for 97th among 111 eligible players.
However, field-goal percentage fails to account for free throws and the extra point added by hitting 3-pointers. Billups was great at drawing fouls (9.8 attempts per 100 possessions in 2005-06) and a 3-point marksman (43.3%), so he was always going to be misunderstood by that stat.
But when you look at his true shooting percentage (which accounts for all types of shots – 2s, 3s and free throws), his 60.2% was the seventh-best mark in the league.
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