Rudy Gobert is the all time TS% leader and he can’t shoot threes or free throws. He just doesn’t make this list because he’s at 6,400 career attempts.

True shooting alone doesn’t matter much if you don’t consider the context.

Yet those same youngbloods discount guys like Russell.

If you said this before he left the wolves you would be crucified lol

Best 3PT shooting big of all time for my money

Aw cmon lmaooo

He was the top answer from GMS in 2017 when asked who is the best player to build around. In reality he didn’t finish top 5. Can’t be the most underrated with this…

EVER

Era adjusted. TS% last year was 58.1% but was 51.1% in 1998-1999. So Tim Duncan’s 54.1% TS was a TS+ of 106 that year but would have been 93 this last season.

TS+ or rTS% (relative TS%) are both a way to say how better or worse a players TS% was compared to the league average. in TS+ 100 is the average. rTS% is a + or - number.

for example, if in a season the avg TS% was 50%, and a player shot 65%, his TS+ would be 130, and his rTS% would be +15

Yeah it’s crazy how much computing power has increased since the 90s and early 00s.

It sucks its all of our problems how little critical thinking the younger generations have

Plus the intangibles - by being that efficient from range, he spaces the floor giving the rest of his team more looks

People that get paid to talk about basketball can’t figure out he’d run magic out of the gym by the end of the first. Or that curry is 2x as skilled as LeBron (and everyone else) with just as much winning and much more impact on the game.

I mean, peak Dame got pretty damn close, which is why he’s going to be so underrated historically. Like his peak was ³²⁄₇ on 65% TS%, and he’s staticially better at 3s once you start talking about that 30 foot+ range

Dude was an easy ³⁰⁄₈ on 63% TS% during his peak, and lead us to a top 5 offense year after despite some horrendous supporting casts.

So much of how we end up rating players ends up being about their supporting casts. Like Curry is obviously better than Dame, but you have guys calling Jalen Brunson better than Dame because he played with a team that looks like the Monstars in comparison to those Blazers squads

Main thing is that Giannis took years to develop his advantages and become such a physical force at the rim. Remove those early seasons and he has the higher TS%. Curry meanwhile walked on as a transcendent 3pt and FT shooter.

if Steph had half of Shai’s whistle he’d be 1st by a considerable margin

elite free throw merchant, hit like 10 free throws attempted per game in 2006 and 2007 during the dead ball era

I don’t think I truly recognize how great he was (despite following the NBA during his career) until the Thinking Basketball series broke down his advance stats and peak impact.

The “notable players” listed are all in the top 10 discussions.

Nor was it meant to be an exhaustive list. Malone, Isiah, Ewing, Nash and many many other greats can be added and you are free to do so.

Lolwut. League average is higher than ever.

Gotta remember, Reggie didn’t take 3s like they do now. He had tons of 21-footers in there, and a steady midrange game, too. I imagine his TS% would go up in today’s game where he’d be getting higher quality shots.

reggie was also a solid free throw merchant (on elite efficiency) for someone who depended a lot on jumpers

This is why it’s funny to me when old heads say that Steph, KD, and Bron couldn’t play in the older generation. Like bro they DID play in the older generation 😭. LeBron played against the lakers while Shaq was still on the team. KD faced prime Kobe, Steph against Paul pierce and Kobe.

Doubtful, he probably has 5 good years left in him

He averages 500 FG attempts a season, he’ll have to play until he’s 40 while maintaining that shot volume. Absolutely no chance he makes it to 10k

I love CB!

I don’t think this is a fair criticism of Dantley’s game. He had some of the worst supporting casts in league history in his first years with Utah, and would’ve/should’ve been finals MVP in 1988 if not for the famous phantom foul. Dantley only had 2 years with an actual team around him and he lost in 7 both times to 2 of the greatest teams ever.

Frankly Isiah Thomas shot them out of both series-his ego of needing to be the top scorer even though Dantley was far superior at that was their problem prior to trading Dantley. People only remember that famous game 6 because the shots actually fell for Zeke, but there was no reason at all for him to be taking them, he just wanted to be finals MVP and Dantley had absolutely torched LA in the first 5 games of the series.

The 87 series loss to the Celtics was also entirely on Zeke. Dantley and Dumars were scoring very efficiently that series and game 7, but Isiah shot them out of the game with a 10-28 stinker. Isiah was 60-142 from the field in that series, Dantley was 60-104. Who was the selfish one?

Imagine how many games he could’ve won without the triple doubles then seeing as he averages a 74% win rate with one

Far right column: https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/curryst01.html#all_adj_shooting

I’d need to see your research on that.

He’s the most efficient scorer of all time and one of the greatest defenders of all time and you’re acting like he’s a McNobody.

That true shooting % isn’t the end all be all a lot of people make it out to be

Yeah big men that get dunks tend to have higher TS. Look at someone like Clint Capela who just only shoots close to the rim.

It’s not overrated at all. It’s simply the best efficiency stat but it’s more useful to look at TS+ to compare efficiency among players that played in different eras.