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Embiid has mastered the art of flopping drawing fouls on drives.

Here’s the top 10

  1. Embiid—19.8%

  2. Thomas—13.9%

  3. JJJ—13.3%

  4. Dame—12.9%

  5. Paolo—12.0%

  6. Trae—12.0%

  7. LeVert—11.4%

  8. Jalen Green—11.3%

  9. Hayward—11.2%

  10. Giannis—11.1%

  • Dokutah_Dokutah@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Yeah right. Watch how he played against Dillon Brooks when he “bullied” him on top of the key to score an awkward lay-up.

    He starts with a bent fore arm that he extends opening up space. He then gets into Brooks space pins his leg with an off arm and cleared enough space to take a lay up which Dillon was still able to challenge. He takes the lay-up while making a downward swipe at Dillon negating the little chance Dillon could challenge.

    Remember Lebron elbowing Green’s chest in the Finals against the spurs to blow the lay-up throwing it out of bounds then complain as if it was a foul?

    This is pretty established when you check back to his past games before he developed a decent three. the most egregious with him elbowing the fuck out of Manu and Bowen in the 2007 finals.

    Sure there are fouls that are not called against the defender but there are also more fouls that are not called on Lebron or Ant or Zion or Morant.

    Lebron is not doing the same exact same thing smaller players do. He cannot change directions the same way they can considering his longer limbs, he might accelerate faster because he’s an athletic freak but he’s not doing Jordan’s one handed in out dribbles or the shamgods smaller players with the same smoothness. His passing (outside of interior passing) might be divine but he’s an awkward looking dribbler.

    • thelennybeast@alien.topB
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      10 months ago

      Are you just ignoring all the body contact LeBron is getting on that play that they ABSOLUTELY would call if Brooks was doing it to a smaller, weaker player?

      The stats don’t lie, LeBron gets less free throw attempts vs points in the paint than you would expect for any other player in the NBA, much less a superstar.