Yep. Twolves as a team haven’t shot over 77% from the line since ANT has been in the league. Which isn’t bad, but when your talent level is deep playoff/championship aspirations level every advantage and disadvantage matter.

I wish this was just a rudy issue, but you just listed a bunch of mid at best percentages, it’s a team issue, and one that they don’t seem to take very seriously cause somehow it’s even worse then last season. At some point they need to address it.

Ant has been top-10 in FTA/gm the past two seasons and was 13th the season before that. Attempts are low this year but he also only played four games. I’d say his volume is fine, if not great, considering almost half his FGA come from 3

Of those guys in the top 10, he’s honestly one of the better FT shooters, floating around the low 80s. Only Booker, SGA, Harden, and Jokic are assuredly better than him, though Luka looks like he’s turned it around this year

Jaden shot 83.5% last season, only Ayo (92.5%) was less of a contributor to the issue

By volume it’s just that Ant is an 80%er (so he doesn’t raise it a lot, weird considering he’s an outlier 3pt shooter), so was Julius, and Rudy shoots 52.6% while taking a lot of FTs at 4/g (some amount of these are assuredly very deliberate). Everyone else shot like 100 FTs over the whole season and shot whatever%

But honestly in the aggregate the Wolves have a bad FT% because of Rudy lol. Team FT% is usually just a story about which position on your team is taking your FTs (and/or if you have a guy like Embiid that shoots a great % from the 5 — his 2023 Sixers have the #2 ever season in FT%, case in point again Nuggs and Sixers were both top 5 teams last year). Celtics I remember were extreme good in FT% in 2023 and it was just that we got almost 0 FTs from the C position and lots from Brogdon and White (both 87%). The Wolves also generally have normal NBA FT shooters, they don’t have a guard buoying the stat, but they DO have Gobert dragging it down. QED

We do like Finch, he is a good coach. Thats why its frustrating too.

That is unbelievably not true

If you mean we don’t sell contact, I agree. But if you think we aren’t drawing contact, that’s just being irrational.

Ants hurt now but he was getting curry guarded and grabbed when he was healthy

It’s so annoying when people just look at box score FGA and say “WHY LESS FREETHROW!?” without looking at context of play-style at all

He’s a 63% career FT shooter. If he consistently shot that during the hack-a-rudy it wouldn’t really work. 1.26 points per possession would be the best offense in the league.

Last year, however, he shot 52.6%, which would be 1.05 points per possession, which would have been the worst offense in the league last year

Tbf if he is in the game late he can be a black hole on offense and a team gets to play 5 on 4. So, might not want to get him off the court.

lol right? The fact he got 13 upvotes too 😭