My coworker brought this up today and I thought he was misreading his statline somehow. Looked at his stat page, and yeah, it really is only five on the year. I already knew he wasn’t one to draw fouls but you’d think you’d at least accidentally draw one shooting foul a game as a starter.
To his credit, he’s hit all five.
Remember when people were confused that the Suns gave Ayton away for a box of cookies? Yeah, it lasted less than a month of the season. He’s a skilled player, that is bad, it’s hard to explain, but it’s just who he is.
Ayton is not close to being a winning player nor he ever will be, the fact that Phoenix chose the corpse of Jusuf Nurkic over him shows that. There’s something so wrong with how he approaches the game that despite being gifted, he is such a negative that you’d rather have a washed player over him.