Averaged 2.2 in the regular season too.

+4.4 assists and +0.0 turnovers per game.

Raised his assists 66% without any increase in turnovers.

Its why its so so so hard to get a lead once its lost with this team. Man will consistently get you 2 points every other trip at minimum.

Its also a weird situation, where it would help to focus on shutting down everyone else and have 1 disciplined player guard him.

We have premier guard defenders and he still hasn’t given away freebies which is exactly why they are 2-1 up and so hard to defend. They constantly keep finding open teammates, it worked against Wolves coz Ant is a terrible passer but Shai is too good at protecting the ball and sending doubles

All coaches and most players know this, but it’s just most fans don’t typically look at turnovers as much as something like efficiency, which is cited much more than turnovers, even in the single game stat line posts. I don’t blame them though since it’s at the end of the stat sheet and not something as popular as efficiency. 

However a turnover is worse than just a missed field goal. A turnover a wasted possession, and it leads to a better chance for an opposing team fast break. At least if you just miss, you still have a chance to get the offensive rebound for a second chance or even if the other team gets the rebound, it isn’t as likely to be a fast break. Possessions are huge to all coaches, and winning the possession battle is highly correlated to winning the game. 

It’s also one of the underrated reasons why SGA rates so well in impact metrics. Even players like FVV and Derrick White, both of whom have poor efficiency at times, still rate better than what you might except from just efficiency in terms of overall offensive impact because they also don’t turn it over much either, despite having a poor TS percentage. 

He has one of the tightest handles I’ve ever seen.

yeah he’s not like the best or most flashy playmaker, but he always seems to make the right play

Yeah that was kind of why Game 1 against the Spurs was so surprising, down the stretch he was getting rushed and the Thunder were losing out on points they’d usually finish possessions with.

Feel like a lot of people on here would disagree with you…somehow

But you don’t understand! Silver and the league are propping him up with all the foul calls he’s been getting. He’s a designer baby superstar!

Yes but per r/nba he actually sucks and is only reigning NBA due to his egregious flopping, so these posts are useful in reframing the narrative into something more grounded in reality.

But some spurs fans, Lakers fans and nuggets fans are whining because he didn’t lead the league in pra and flops even though every single one of their star players also flop

This sub sure doesn’t think so

He’s not merely an MVP. I think this is the highest guard peak since Jordan that we’re witnessing right now. Yea, over Steph and Kobe.

Yea there’s a large amount of people who think he’s actually not lol

If this was jokic or wemby we’d get 100 posts a day about how they’re on goat trajectory, league fucked, best player not even close etc

Added with how many live ball turnovers he and his teammates generate a game, and they essentially have a 6-10 point advantage every game just because of that.

It’s a very, very underrated part of his game

bUt hE’s rUiNeD tHe GaMe

I mean he shoots it or he passes it with great decision making calculus with tremendous speed. There’s no point in fouling him because he’s got 7’ wingspan and unless you have a longer than 7’ wingspan and you are faster than him you can’t really get steals off him, so poking or reaching a bit too far or getting just a bit off balance just opens you up for his entire bag of tricks - of which he has several.

People will always hate greatness unfortunately

He is one of the most egregious floppers of all time and leads all players by a huge margin in falling over 

*because he falls down 20% of the time after a shot

“Sometimes” literally the most of any player in the league, which is backed by stats.

But nice snark queen 💅

What do you mean? Nobody is watching FTA! It’s not like this series has set any viewership records or anything like that!! Now imagine if all of those people who weren’t watching because of FTA started, it would get billions of viewers!!!

Holy victim mentality. Even if you’re right, why do you care so much about people watching games?

To be fair really great passers usually have more turn overs cause they see tighter windows. Not trying to down play SGA at all, he’s actually one of my favorite players, but I would put him below the LeBron, Luka, Jokic, tier of passers.

Turning the ball over has tremendously outsized negative impact on offense vs the offensive impact of creating an assist.

Depends on the quality of the assists. 2 dunks and 1 TO is better than semi open 3 role player 3s. The type of pass also influences what the transition opportunity is. Whiffing an attempted rim assist can easily be less damaging than a long rebound from a bricked 3 or midrange attempt.

He has 7 turnovers, so 2.3

how did you know that, what’s the mathematical process that u’ve done

Caruso and many other players playing out of their minds is not just being “deep” its Shai making his teammates better by trusting them to make plays too. This is what leadership and elevating your teammates is.

Beep wrong

Unprecedented rate? Lol a below average NBA player will shoot over 40% on how wide open these 3s have been.

Averaging 11 assists with less than 3 turnovers is elite playmaking no matter how you try to frame it.

Are you sure you watching the game? Shai is causing the spurs to give his teammates open looks. They are so focused on stopping him that’s it’s leading to open looks for the rest of the team .

39.5% from 3 through 3 games is not unprecedented lmao

The Spurs were at 38.3% through the whole first two rounds

Facts. Comparing Sga to Steph is hilarious

Because any other player getting doubled as much as he does is going to have more than 2.2 turnovers a game.

So many other players wouldn’t be able to handle the double teams the way Shai does.

Guys like Ant and Dmitch aren’t averaging 11 assists on 2 TOs a game with this sort of coverage

not healthy to have all that hate in ur heart man

KD had more turnovers in the 1 game he played this post season getting doubled than all of SGAs games in the WCF so far. Thats why its impressive. He’s getting his teammates open looks and not losing the ball