Intention fouls, you can foul a guy off ball before the ball is ever inbounded.

No time off the clock, you can do this until 10 players foul out, that gives you another 120 potential points for zero seconds off the clock.

So just thinking about this - and assuming the opposing team is also in on this as accounting for defense makes this even more difficult - taking advantage of when the clock stops would be key. If the ball is rolled full court to a player, how fast would you say a NBA player could scoop it up and then make a lay-up/dunk? That would hardly take any time off.

After a quick google search the clock “stops on made baskets in the final minute of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd quarters, and final two minutes of the 4th/overtime” - which would give plenty of time to do this.

Also OT would be a cheat-code, especially if both teams were in on this to continue the game indefinitely.

Upper limit is the speed at which a ball falls through the basket to count as a basket by gravity, then assume a near zero time to reset based on both teams working together to get the ball back in position, maybe 1.5 seconds when coordinated. Probably get it to about 2.0 seconds total

So something like 1700 points

Gotta keep it holy for Bam and his legendary season

Heat fans furious as Jaylen Brown dies in an even worse helicopter crash than Bam

Harden in his 2016 Kardashian season didn’t make All-NBA as total leader, Curry was scoring champ with 1.1 more PPG.

Biased. Bias is a noun 

I mean it’s the rules ? I know lakers are accustomed to their special referee whistle, but should they also get a special carve out for all NBA when it comes to those rules?

Maybe if he was better conditioned he wouldnt run into this issue

I mean it’s a terrible look to penalize Cade after the incredible season he had. Nothing he could’ve done to prevent his collapsed lung but here we are. He doesn’t get all NBA after 63 games.

That’s the only reason I wouldn’t grant the exemption. Luka isn’t the only player getting screwed.

I guess the birth of your children should be an exception, maybe the league should grant paternity leave

all of them being 3’s

And? Ts% accounts for 3’s value lol

The Thunder have scorers better than LeBron or Reaves? Lol we inflate the hell outta the Thunder roster because they’re so well constructed with role players. Jalen Williams barely even played this season. Who are these high level scorers the Thunder have

3’s are worth more points. If anything he should have way more if he was more efficient. 67% to 61% TS too. OKC had 2nd most missed time by players too, so Shai was doing it with whoever was healthy 

How many all time GOAT conversation players does Shai have on his team. Checkmate Lukissasses

What? Efficency is efficiency. All efficency metrics show SGA>Luka. It isn’t like SGA isn’t scoring at similar volume anywhere.

Cause it’s end of season and it’s fun to hype the guy from your team up and argue why they should win lol 

Not the same level but Luka won Euroleague at 18 as star player

Mbappe has the world cup at least

Why do you keep posting this as an explanation? Luka being a high volume 3P shooter at an above average percentage helps his efficiency.

SGA is more efficient because he’s much better in the midrange and a much better FT shooter, not because he takes fewer threes.

The wild part is that Luka has taken so many more shots. Your comment makes it even wilder - he attempted 136 more total field goals, but attempted 396 more 3 pointers. SGA attempted 260 more 2s.

Luka attempting that many more 3s and only scoring 26 more points is the crazy part.

Why does it matter that Luka takes harder shots that he shouldn’t? Maybe he should not take those shots and play more efficient basketball. SGA also creates most of his points and everyone gameplans around him as he is the reigning MVP and FMVP. Luka is simply a worse pure scorer than SGA. They have the same PER 36 PPG and SGA is 5% more efficienct. There is no real statistical debate.

It’s definitely more of a “holy shit, SGA is insane!” stat than anything else.

Luka has very good efficiency on huge volume, SGA had to be historically efficient in order to get that close in total points despite significantly less volume.

SGA is one of the most efficient scorers the league has seen at the guard position. His team always winning makes it where he doesn’t have to have big scoring nights cause they are so defensively focused.

What? Luka has very good effenciency on huge volume, SGA is just the most efficient guard of all time.

He was qualified and got votes, Luka can’t even get votes

Why are those awards set to 58 and not 65 like the other major ones?

mfs see shai anywhere and their brains just go dumb. if he keeps this up for a couple more years we might be calling him the best scorer of this century. tho i dont think a dude called luka77goatic is unbiased enough to admit that

The dude you are replying to is mentally ill.

Yeah but the point is, SGA’s box score is significantly stronger than Luka’s.

I think they are clearly in the same tier offensively, but because ur team allows SGA to run isolation at will alongside getting all the favorable switches, It def helps SGA’s box scores, more so than Luka’s.

Harden was targeted for no reason by the media and was quite unlucky. Harden was the best scorer in the league during his peak no question still.

Harden was underrated in his prime

Maybe he thought they were unfairly criticized

It doesn’t. Because you also have to look at the high end. Luka will more likely drop 50 on you than Shai. Averaging 40 8 and 7 in 64% true shooting.

No it’s because he doesn’t have a stacked ass roster and is relied upon to carry the teams offense night in and night out.

A well phrased rebuttal, addressing all the points brought up by the previous commenter. Well done

Shai career is barely starting as a first option, and he outplayed jokic head to head last year, scoring included 

does lukas ass taste good?

So ? Still more minutes, so it doesn’t matter that Luka played 4 games less

By people on this thread claiming SGA is a worse scorer than Luka.

As if SGA isn’t doubled and gameplanned around as the literal reigning MVP and FMVP.