I've played a few basketball seasons with mixed success, but I never paid much attention to possession penalties and usage rates. I'm trying to be more mindful off such things now, though. I built a team that will always have at least 12+ usage points, but looking at my team stats, it doesn't look like my team will score enough. I'm debating just running the slow down offense and work on being efficient, but I'm wondering, 1: if I even need to run slow down and 2: should I sub out a player(s) who shoot more to improve my total scoring. Here's my current roster. It's a practice league now, but once I settle on a roster I like I planned on putting it in an OL:

Name	Pos	GP	Min	Pts	FGM	FGA	3PM	3PA	FTM	FTA	OReb	Reb	Ast	TO	Stl	Blk	PF
93-94 Hakeem Olajuwon	C	80	3277	2184	894	1694	8	19	388	542	229	955	288	271	128	297	289
07-08 Steve Nash	PG	81	2780	1371	485	962	179	381	222	245	28	282	898	295	53	5	113
99-00 Brent Barry	SG	80	2726	945	327	707	164	399	127	157	50	372	291	142	103	31	228
02-03 Bruce Bowen	SF	82	2567	583	223	479	101	229	36	89	59	239	113	72	66	42	195
08-09 Troy Murphy	PF	73	2482	1041	364	767	161	358	152	184	146	861	172	114	58	34	226
07-08 Sasha Vujacic	SG	72	1284	632	219	482	118	270	76	91	19	154	72	52	36	5	107
04-05 Michael Ruffin	PF	79	1262	111	41	99	0	1	29	67	157	332	64	44	43	41	193
11-12 Raja Bell	SG	43	989	272	101	217	43	109	27	32	8	62	48	27	17	3	97
11-12 Stephen Curry	PG	33	910	479	181	368	69	151	48	59	19	110	172	81	49	10	78
95-96 Rick Mahorn	C	50	450	120	43	122	0	1	34	47	31	110	15	30	14	13	72
71-72 Nate Bowman	C	18	212	43	19	52	0	1	5	9	27	86	13	17	5	0	47
67-68 Roger Schurig	PG	23	211	107	37	99	4	9	29	38	15	31	19	25	15	3	40
TOTALS			19150	7888	2934	6048	847	1928	1173	1560	788	3594	2165	1170	587	484	1685

You have enough possessions.... you don't need to run slowdown because of this.  You might need to run slowdown because of the fact that your team is hurting severely in the rebounds department and has *way way way way WAY* too many minutes for an OL.  Bruce Bowen is not a SF in this sim.... you need WAY more boards out of your SF position.  Try subbing in 92-93 Rodman for Bowen and your team will perform much better.  Drop about 1,500-2,000 total minutes, get some better quality players with the money saved, and you should be competitive.

Thank you for the advice. I didn't even think about lowering minutes, but I guess with the rookies that come with an OL team, I can get away with trimming off 400-500 minutes.

If you draft 9 quality players that total 17,000 minutes and 3 scrubs, ull have enough minutes.

Okay, I swapped Bruce Bowen for 1980-81 Sidney Moncrief. I traded out 93-94 Hakeem for 92-93 (120 more rebounds). I ended up cutting out about 1000 minutes off of my roster. I had to switch out some bench players but added about 300 more total rebounds and 200 more points.

By the way, total rebounds, points, etc aren't used.  The advanced stats (such as usg%, ast%, OReb%, etc) are what the sim engine uses.