I don't exactly know what an unimpressive assist is, so sorry if I laid it out wrong in my reply. If the assist, impressive or not lead to pts, it's a good assist. The player gets credit for it. I get that sometimes the bucket is scored because of the shooter and sometimes because of the pass, but I maintain that they both end in the same result and ya get credit for both. Every assist is a good assist because someone scored. I agree some are better then others - but I can't discount any of them for any reason because again ...they all end with pts and also - who gives a .... I get what you are saying tho and IMO - I don't completely agree with your concept but that's ok, we can't always agree. We can agree that 56 took that word and then ran it into the ground tho.
I don't discredit any assist either. I just give more credit to some. Its easier to score from a good pass. And one thing assist numbers don't show are the ones you didn't get because you didn't have the passing skills required to get it. You completely agree with me, you just don't know it yet. If you made a list of the top 100 passers, it wouldn't be an exact copy of the top 100 assist leaders. That's because of the variables I mentioned earlier. 56 said Gesell was a better passer because he averaged more assists like that's all that matters.