how dare you not mention sga

Don’t forget Luka

Did Luka die?

Most Improved Merchant

🎵watch him as he throws🎵

Deni AvdiFTa

Isn’t okc like bottom 5 in free throws?

I don’t even think people would care so much about the pure number of free throws if they didn’t disrupt the flow of the game so much. Every trip to the line takes like 3 minutes when it should take like a minute tops.

The league should absolutely adjust refereeing to stop calling offense-initiated contact as a defensive foul, but if nothing else just make the process of FTs faster.

But of course they won’t because their revenue is increased based on watch time.

Yep 👍 just finished saying this that every game is non stop fouls no game flow at all man

Yeah the product is not great at the moment I hate to say 

And he drives with high speed making it even harder to get a clean swipe on the ball.

For the 100th time, drives are not the end-all-be-all for drawing fouls. A good amount of the time, a drive doesn’t even lead to a shot - it could be passing out to an open man from the drive, breaking down the defense, etc.

In fact, Deni is #33 in FGA off of drives 

Post ups, transition, pick and rolls, offensive rebounds all have a higher  FT rate than drives. 

Don’t tell Steph fans that. Deni is also tall, strong, fast, and puts his head down going to the basket, it’s almost like you draw more fouls playing physical versus going out of your way to avoid contact like Kyrie

I mean he definitely is getting fouled. I understand it’s not fun too watch but getting free throws has been a genuine skill in the NBA for a long time now. Pretty much every top scorer has it as a feature in their arsenal. Deni attacks the rim constantly and the way he can suddenly change direction makes it incredibly difficult not to get him across the arms. He hasn’t even maximized his ability as a FT merchant yet, as he’s not really adept at manipulating defenders into fouling him on jump shots yet.

Exactly. They won’t clip it because he’s actually getting mauled. Dudes just can’t stop his first step and once he’s running full speed they just hack him.

I really think it’s just because the Blazers aren’t contenders. SGA talked about how no one cared about his 11 FTs per game when we were bad. It only happened when we started being a threat 

It’s the way he slow down to get the fouls

He drive full speed at player and then suddenly slow down so the players can’t react so they foul him

and shot very low quality shot

the fouls are legit…

But it’s easier to just hate a player because of how many FT’s they get. Get out of here with your sound logic and reasoning

It’s funny you mention like SGA, but the game he had 26 fts or whatever earlier this year, someone did the same thing and all but like 2 were completely legit

Yeah because people like him and don’t like Shai. I don’t qwhite know why tho.

I saw several tonight of him going for foul calls without trying to score

ABOMINATION

DISGUSTING!!

Deni has the 3rd most and 1s in the league and puts his head down going downhill. Teams are eventually gonna have to get out of his way or live with the FTs.

So much contact on every single one but the boxscore watchers cant help but hate.

Ill take things that never happed for 300

Deni does have a move where he dribbles low one direction then when the defender reaches he swipes back through there arms, but he always tries to finish. He’s at the top for and 1s because he is strong as hell and loves to go through guys and score. The thing he doesn’t do is flop or draw a foul just to get a ft. Dude is always trying to finish (he just wants to go through the defenders arms first) gtfo here with the “0 attempt to attack” bro his middle name should be attack

That’s just a straight up lie lol, it’s obvious you don’t watch the game

now also thirty years ago

If we’re calling flopping a skill, then yeah. It’s a skill now. NBA has an epidemic right now and they need to address it.

Hebrew Harden

I agree. I watched him against OKC and they did unto him what they did unto Jokic last year, but he hot calls. That assist of his to Grant in last second of first half, he was driving and 3 players ganged up on him. He sent SGA on his ass a couple of times. Guy doesn’t look like much, but same as Sengun and Sabonis, he’s an ox.

From the stats I see he is the highest in drives, but not even close to the highest in shots from drives.

He’s at 19.5 drives per game for 5.5 FGA and 4 FTA. SGA is at 18 drives for 8.9 FGA and 3.8 FTA.

He’s No. 1 for drives.
No. 33 for FGA from drives.
No. 3 for FTA from drives.

Kinda crazy.

There are already 3-5 posts about him after every Blazer game. It is a Karma farm at this point.

Don’t worry. You’ll get used to it.

He is exploiting the rules don’t get it twisted. He is first in drives, yes. But he is only 33rd on shot attempts from drives but third in fta. That’s also basically the only way how he gets his assists. He gets his ft or in a rare case without a whistle passes the ball after contact.

Bulldozing right into his opponents then slowing down on contact so that he won’t get an offensive foul? Effective yeah but shit wouldn’t fly back then. LeBron would have like 30 fta every game with Deni’s whistle. He is high-key getting coddled despite having a huge body frame.

His opponents really should hack the shit out of him, poke him, knee him to make the fouls worth it…but the modern NBA has too much sportsmanship on the defensive side while the offense can pull all kinds of bullshit. Only someone like Draymond would exploit Deni’s free throw baiting.

It always was. It’s essentially the best play you can get on offense outside of an uncontested shot right next to the basket

well, then you dont get those calls in the playoffs apart from SGA

refs call the game different in the playoffs

I’m team Deni here, but shoutout to Hardeni. It got me.

Well the owners like it. Their assets get less hurt from defensive play.

The way he do it

Kyle Anderson way,is more legit than the occasional flopping you see all over the internet

they actually fouling him because he slow down in the end of the drive

Nah, it’s mostly just Blazers and Thunder fans in here jerking each other off.