If we’re gonna be dissecting a player after they’ve played all of 220 minutes of NBA basketball, we may as well give him props for being 10/10 from the free throw line

Incidentally, we recently had one of those as president

Somehow I was not aware of this until recently. It’s a good reminder that a lot of times when a guy is unexpectedly struggling there’s an injury behind it

Regarding degree of difficulty, any thoughts how much effect being the guy who can create in late shot clock situations might affect TS%?

Spitballing, if you’re a star who shoots on 25% of your possessions, and in 5% of possessions you are the guy bailing out the offense with a late shot, which we can assume is 20% less efficient than a typical look created within the flow of a successful possession, then you are suppressing your TS% by something like 20% on a quarter of your shooting possessions. That would be something like a 5% dip in TS% vs if you always passed to teammates to take those bad late clock shots.

Simply having a second star player to eat half of these possessions (to say nothing of helping generate better looks overall) would increase this hypothetical TS% by 2.5%. Idk if the numbers are reasonable, but I think they get the point across.

I fucking love Duncan’s resurgence during last year’s playoffs into this year

There is no player empowerment until Furkan Korkmaz’s trade request is honored

Most players airball that