SGA is averaging by far the most drives to the basket each game at 21 a night. The next highest is lamelo ball at 18.3 a night
Despite this SGA is averaging 6.3 FTA per game which is tied for 16th in the NBA. He is also 12th off of FTA per game based off of drives at 2.9 a night. Behind players like Caris levert and paolo banchero
As a whole team OKC is also averaging the most drives per game at 60.5 (2nd is the pacers at 57). Despite this OKC is also 16th in the NBA in FTA.
SGA isn’t a foul merchant and OKC has been getting a pretty bad whistle this year it seems.
OKC is also 2nd in the nba in FT%
Drives - https://www.nba.com/stats/players/drives?dir=D&sort=DRIVE_FTA
Team drives - https://www.nba.com/stats/teams/drives?dir=D&sort=DRIVES
Free throws - https://www.nba.com/stats/players/traditional?dir=A&sort=FTA
He creates so much space with his off arm it’s hard to foul him.
Oh yes when the calls regress to the mean it’ll be nice
Yeah bc he sidesteps as good as anyone in the league and avoids foulsz
Freethrow merchant they said btw.
SGA has the deepest bag in the league. No one can stop him lmao.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/17yk9ho/comment/k9ujvu9/
Get a load of this guys
“Favorable whistle” got …checks notes…
2 FTAs on 29 shot attempts.
Remember when Lakers fans justified their FT numbers by saying that they drive a lot?
He is got a bad whistle this year but let’s not avt like his whistle last season was the same. Last season he had a elite whistle
Considering the rest of the drivers per game leaders are also not very high in the free throw attempts list, seems like the lesson here should be drives and free throws aren’t as correlated as you think.
Yeah because they aren’t driving all the way to the basket. LaMelo will drive and float. Shai will drive and do floater or something else as well.
For something to be recorded as a drive to the basket does it have to end in a layup attempt? Or is does getting downhill past the perimeter defender and shooting a midrange count too? Cause that is what SGA does a lot. Might be one factor as to why he gets less whistles, but not sure
TBF a lot of his drives this year ends in a pull up middie.
Oh to be young again. My knees hurt just reading this
So he’s this year’s Luka Dončič :D
NBA refs are a joke
Look up Cade. 2nd in drives, 69th in FTA
If he got his last year whistle, he’d average 40 lol.