Terry Rozier should bring some added punch to Miami’s offense this season.
The Miami Heat have filled a hole in their backcourt, trading Kyle Lowry and a 2027 first-round pick to the Charlotte Hornets in exchange for Terry Rozier.
Here are some numbers to know about the 6-foot-1, 29-year-old Rozier, who’s in his ninth season.
All stats are through Monday, Jan. 22, 2024.
Consistent production, trending up
1. Rozier is one of only five qualified players – Luka Doncic, De’Aaron Fox, Donovan Mitchell and Nikola Jokic are the others – to have averaged at least 18 points, 3.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and one steal per game in each of the last five seasons.
2. His 23.2 points per game and 6.6 assists per game this season are both career-high marks.
More usage, better efficiency
3. Rozier has averaged 7.2 minutes of possession this season, the sixth-most in the league and the highest rate of his career by a wide margin.
4. With that, he’s registered the highest usage rate of his career (26.8%), while also tying his career-high mark for assist rate, recording assists on 23.0% of his possessions.
5. The higher usage hasn’t hurt his efficiency. He has a true shooting of 57.4%, below the league average but up from 51.7% last season and just a hair below his career high of 57.5%. His free-throw rate (23.5 attempts per 100 shots from the field) is the highest of his career.
6. Rozier has shot a career-best 53.3% inside the arc. Both his field goal percentage in the paint (55.0%) and his mid-range field goal percentage (48.0%) are the highest mark of his career. The latter is tied for 10th among 59 players with at least 75 mid-range attempts.
Mr. Clutch
7. In his career, Rozier has an effective field goal percentage of 53.8% with the score within five points in the last five minutes of the fourth quarter or overtime. That’s the sixth-best mark among 278 players (best among non-bigs) with at least 250 clutch field goal attempts (regular season and playoffs) in the 28 years for which we have clutch data.
Highest clutch effective field goal percentage, since 1996-97
| Player | FGM | FGA | FG% | 3PM | 3PA | 3P% | eFG% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Dwight Howard | 205 | 346 | 59.2% | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 59.2% |
| 2. | Andre Drummond | 147 | 255 | 57.6% | 1 | 7 | 14.3% | 57.8% |
| 3. | Yao Ming | 191 | 343 | 55.7% | 1 | 4 | 25.0% | 55.8% |
| 4. | Shaquille O’Neal | 332 | 595 | 55.8% | 0 | 0 | 55.8% | |
| 5. | Al Horford | 298 | 593 | 50.3% | 56 | 153 | 36.6% | 55.0% |
| 6. | Terry Rozier | 149 | 338 | 44.1% | 73 | 182 | 40.1% | 54.9% |
| 7. | Carlos Boozer | 265 | 486 | 54.5% | 0 | 3 | 0.0% | 54.5% |
| 8. | Nene | 166 | 306 | 54.2% | 0 | 3 | 0.0% | 54.2% |
| 9. | Amar’e Stoudemire | 243 | 458 | 53.1% | 5 | 20 | 25.0% | 53.6% |
| 10. | Steve Nash | 405 | 887 | 45.7% | 139 | 353 | 39.4% | 53.5% |
eFG% = (FGM + (0.5 * 3PM)) / FGA
Includes Play-In and playoffs
Through Jan. 22, 2024
8. He’s shot 73-for-182 (40.1%) on clutch 3-pointers in his career. That’s the seventh-best mark among 226 players with at least 100 clutch 3-point attempts in the 28 years of clutch data.
9. This season, Rozier is one of four players who’ve shot 50% or better on at least 25 field goal attempts and 40% or better on at least 10 3-point attempts.
Pull-ups are up, catch-and-shoots are down
10. Rozier has shot 57-for-145 (39.3%) on pull-up 3-pointers, the fifth-best mark among 28 players who’ve attempted at least 100 and the best mark of his career by a healthy margin. He’d shot 32.1% on pull-up 3s over the previous three seasons.
11. His 48.2% on pull-up 2-pointers is also the second-best mark of Rozier’s career and ranks 12th among 52 players with at least 100 attempts.
12. Rozier has scored 1.11 points per possession as a pick-and-roll ball-handler the second-best mark among 57 players with at least 150 ball-handler possessions, according to Synergy tracking.
13. Over the last two seasons, Rozier has shot just 32.7% on catch-and-shoot 3s. That’s down from 41.1% over the previous five years.
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John Schuhmann is a senior stats analyst for NBA.com. You can e-mail him here, find his archive here and follow him on X.
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