How Do Touches and Dribbles Relate to Scoring?

A basketball study at 82games.com (from Roland Beech?) investigates how scoring rate changes depending on how many players touch the ball per second (when the ball is at least within three point range). It turns out that the longer the ball is held, the lower the scoring rate:

Touches per second.....Points per 100 possessions
.01 to .14 ..................... 92.8
.15 to .24 ..................... 92.9
.25 to .34 .................... 105.6
.35 to .44 .................... 114.1
.45+ .......................... 122.5

This shows that teams should try to move the ball around faster. Or perhaps it just shows that the high-scoring opportunities that arise also happen to be the fastest (such as offensive rebounds). The study argues that the effect is a combination of both reasons.

There was no obvious scoring relationship found for number of touches, or number of dribbles.