Lmao. How are you losers talking about fouls on a post about games where they shot less than 5 FTs?

You’re either a bot or are actually illiterate. I can’t decide which is sadder

The best 1 on 1 player who shoots most of his shots from 2 has the best FT rate among guards, SHOCKING. You know FT also includes 3s right? Where the foul rate is atleast 10x lower than a 2? Check the ratios for 2pt/FT (pbstats.com) and you will see that are multiple guards drawing more fouls than sga per shot

one of them is a guard lol

Probably bc he’s a 6’5 guard and not operating out of the post

Damn you Jokic nut riders are insufferable. Nobody can talk about another player without yall thinking he’s being slighted.

People that have to say something about Jokic always prove they don’t even know the sport.

Rudy Gobert has the highest TS% of all time

Centers have the highest amount of clean up/easy buckets of any position, simply because of size and positioning.

This isnt a knock on Jokic, but its a far more impressive stat on SGA.

what would make you specifically gravitate to Jokic’s efficiency when looking at these statlines in a vacuum? Higher ppg on marginally higher efficiency seems like the natural first thing to notice

Posts on here alternate hating SGA and hating Jokic

In a post that removes fouls you still find a way to bitch about fouls LMAO

The NBA fan hasn’t realized yet superstar players typically get more free throws because they’re nightmare assignments

Just years of different fanbases bitching and moaning about their teams sending Bron, KD, Paul, Giannis, Harden, SGA, Biid, Luka etc.. to the line without it looking to ever end. So annoying

You know who actually can’t be guarded? Steph Curry.

Because unlike SGA and Jokic, he doesn’t have games where he just shoots 10-12 shots. Hes not on a team good enough to just blow teams out.

Let’s see who these matchups for SGA and Jokic came against. Btw SGA has a higher free throw rate than Luka.

Luka leading the league in FTA this season is actually absurd looking at his shot chart

His rim attempt% is less than half of everyone else to ever do this it’s unprecedented for a player to get this many free throws with this jumper-heavy of a playstyle

Even with Harden he famously cut out midrange during the Morey years so all of his non-threes were rim attempts with Luka he’s still taking quite a few 15 footers

It’s so funny when Lakers fans on Twitter/Instagram will say, Shai has made more FTs than Luka instead of bringing up their attempts. Lakers PR is only outdone by Real Madrid, which coincidentally has ties to Luka

If he won an MVP over Jokic he would be far more hated

He doesn’t flop or push off as badly as Shai. 

You guys can repeat this crybaby comment but it will be wrong everytime.

Luka is 6’8 taking legit contact as a big guard. SGA is frail and sells contact, he never had a scratch on him because no one is allowed to touch him

Who takes more contact it’s not even close

sga is a flopper with his antics, luka actually tries to score through contact (and usually gets them to fall)

watch some games why dont you…

Crazy coming from a Luka stan who spends his every waking moment bashing Shai and glazing Luka.

So you watch basketball or just type on Reddit?

Absolutely hilarious to type this while having a terminally online flair lmao

And same goes for SGA, who on top of everything you said also leads the league in drives every season

Famously guardable player SGA

lol you’re the one who hates SGA any chance You get… super insecure

Yeah man definitely no attempt to push an agenda

Its interesting cause only for Jokic were more games against non playoff teams than playoff teams for this selection of games.

Its 26% for sga’s ppg from ft’s, much less than a third.

Jokic is at 22% and Luka is at 23.5%

His fta would be the 3rd lowest amount this century for a fta season leader, and 4 lowest in history.

It is very overblown lol.

Why doesn’t everything you’ve said in your second paragraph also apply to SGA?

I mean his TS% and scoring is heavily boosted by FTs.

His TS% is boosted by FTAs…because he makes them. Jokic’s TS% also benefits from him being a good freethrow shooter.

His scoring is boosted by FTs like any other player. SGA is at 23.4ppg without FTs and Jokic is at 21.7 while Luka is at 25.6.

It’s almost a 1/3rd of his scoring. More than Jokic’s and probably by a similar amount to Luka (Luka has more attempts, but makes at lower rate).

I’d say that 26% is closer to a quarter than a third, but whatever. Jokic and Luka aren’t far behind at 22.2% and 23.5%. If they made their FTs at the same rate as SGA, they’d be at 23.3% and 25.7%.

had a look and jokic averages 33.1 minutes per game in these games, a couple below his season average of 35. shai is 31.7, down from 33.5, and luka (though it’s a smaller sample) drops from 35.8 to 31.8, mostly thanks to two games in which he played under 20 minutes. 

i don’t think this says much - you could pretty easily assume fewer free throws = fewer minutes over a large enough sample. but i was curious. 

guys are “afraid” of SGA when he isnt even getting calls? sounds in favor of him

you guys need to at least pick a side for your braindead narrative, it’s either he scores easily because everyone is afraid of getting near him OR he gets lots of FTs by abusing defenders being very handsy and all up in his shit

it just can’t be both simultaneously

mixing up your narratives there man

I don’t know why people are complaining about the calls nowadays, FTA for mvp candidates have only fallen compared to the dead ball era and late 1990s, with the exception of embiid of course

People need to remember that getting freethrows is a skill, probably the main reason why some of the best players of the past never got to peak as high as people thought they would. Like current Ant and spurs kawhi