Embiid has mastered the art of flopping drawing fouls on drives.
Here’s the top 10
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Embiid—19.8%
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Thomas—13.9%
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JJJ—13.3%
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Dame—12.9%
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Paolo—12.0%
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Trae—12.0%
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LeVert—11.4%
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Jalen Green—11.3%
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Hayward—11.2%
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Giannis—11.1%
Cause you can’t stop him! Too big too fast or he will shoot it over you
Embiid gets 3.4 FTs a game on 8.6 drives a game.
SGA gets 3.0 FTs a game on 21 drives a game.
That says more about how SGA gets reffed than Embiid.
SGA gets reffed like Yao Ming
What constitutes a drive? Is it a shot attempt (doubt it cuz that’d be wild)? Cuz if he’s getting fouled but on the ground or just running a pick and roll but his initial first steps count as driving but he immediately dumps it off, idk how to interpret this
its also because they count drives on uncontested fast breaks vs in the half court.
Weird how SGA’s game is the exact same as last year, yet his foul calls plummeted
Same with Pascal. the league is a fucking joke
Same with Luka
Its because they normally try to make the shot instead of pure theatrics
Nah Luka definitely foul baits he just isn’t getting it called anymore this year. Although idk if it’s rly baiting since he’s getting hacked everytime he drives
embiid made the most shots in the nba last year
Refs obviously trained their “anti-flop” measures on some of the big offenders from last year. Its obvious if you watched him last year vs now that the same exact drives that make contact are now no-calls
Dude could average 35 a night on high efficiency with the middy/drive game. In this day and age that’s wild to see. SGA averages more drives per game than anyone in the last 10+ years by far
Ja Morant…
Deservedly so when he pushes off every drive
There’s less people packed in the paint to foul him when playing OKC because their perimeter shooters have improved
More like he forgot to compliment the refs this year
Most impolite Canadian.
Maybe it’s because of that house issue. Dude is stressed at home. 💀
He’s getting fouled on almost every drive, they just straight up aren’t calling them
now you understand why embiid sells contact as much as he does
It def is a little of that, but he’s also night to night just not getting the same whistle. Is what it is, and should even out a bit over the season.
Embiid is perhaps, and I do not say this lightly, the greatest flopper the league has ever known. It’s absurd.
Have you considered the fact SGA is a dirty Canuck and doesn’t deserve nice things?
“I don’t think that’s fair.”
I mean, Embiid should be getting a ton more so it kind of checks out
there’s a video ou course teaching this? asking for a friend
Drives per game isn’t a good stat to determine this sort of thing. They always come up but drives aren’t very high up on the list of plays likely to lead to FTs.
The highest are things like put-backs, lobs, post-ups, and dunks (you’re standing under the basket and someone passes to you). So yeah big physical players/teams tend to be higher in these and get more FTs despite not driving as much.
This stat is damning, fuck Embiid
People really wake up and the first thing on their mind is Joel Embiid shooting FTs. Y’all are some world class haters
People like you really wake up and get triggered by literal stats
Embiid uses his size, strength and athleticism to bully his way to the rim and gets fouled a lot. News at 11.
More interesting to me JJJ, I didn’t realize his game included driving to the rim so much.
Gordon Hayward is another interesting one.
You think Embiid gets fouled more than prime Shaq?
yes
Apparently SGA just doesn’t get fouled anymore despite leading the league in drives by a mile
Cam’s sample size is much smaller bc he got injured but he’s genuinely an insane talent at getting to the line. Did it last year too.
Can’t wait for him to get back from injury man…
I just feel like it isn’t gonna ever happen for him for real. Just a gut feeling
What do you mean😰
It’s hard to tell yet I got a lot of faith in him since he’s shown a lot of improvements on all fronts this year but he lost rhythm getting hurt. Which sucks bc he was on a heater.
He’s had so many inconsistent minutes played for his first 2 years that this is his first real year starting. Clax had similar progression in year 3.
Maybe it’s because people foul him a lot
I’m curious on Luka’s stats this season
Saw Embiid against my Cavs. The dude is an absolute troll!
Should name him big baby embiid wind blows and the man is hitting the floor
This sub cannot help themselves, lol. Sometimes they cannot even wait for something to happen the haters just post a random “Embiid haters gather here” post.
r/NFL doesn’t even hate Watson this much.
What I don’t like is he flails too much. A little contact then he goes flying into the stands
I wonder how bad Lebron’s fouls per drive are compared to embiid
Embiid plays disgusting terrible basketball
Maybe it’s because people foul him a lot
You think Jokic doesn’t get fouled a lot?! Bro…
No other possible explanation
Maybe
Where are you sourcing this from?
I want to because LeBron has always been dramatically under statistically on how many free throws he should be shooting by those metrics.
I mean Lebron’s drives are accompanied with him pushing and pinning the defender’s limbs so that he can blow by. It makes sense they do not reward him with free throws when they are not calling him for the numerous offensive fouls he does.
I suppose years of tape establishing his tendencies to take advantage of the physicality allowed to him just makes the refs subconsciously not call late fouls when he opens up the defense with offensive violations.
Now Jokic on the other hand gets scratches and welts on his arms but the refs do not call it for some reason. Now, that’s weird.
What? No. LeBron is doing the exact same thing smaller players do, he’s just stronger, faster sometimes and bigger.
The guy gets a bad whistle and always has. Like when Tatum “blocked” him by grabbing his arm right in front of the official, followed by a meltdown and the funniest Pat Bev tech ever.
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.
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.