SGA is averaging by far the most drives to the basket each game at 21 a night. The next highest is lamelo ball at 18.3 a night
Despite this SGA is averaging 6.3 FTA per game which is tied for 16th in the NBA. He is also 12th off of FTA per game based off of drives at 2.9 a night. Behind players like Caris levert and paolo banchero
As a whole team OKC is also averaging the most drives per game at 60.5 (2nd is the pacers at 57). Despite this OKC is also 16th in the NBA in FTA.
SGA isn’t a foul merchant and OKC has been getting a pretty bad whistle this year it seems.
OKC is also 2nd in the nba in FT%
Drives - https://www.nba.com/stats/players/drives?dir=D&sort=DRIVE_FTA
Team drives - https://www.nba.com/stats/teams/drives?dir=D&sort=DRIVES
Free throws - https://www.nba.com/stats/players/traditional?dir=A&sort=FTA
Look up Cade. 2nd in drives, 69th in FTA
If he got his last year whistle, he’d average 40 lol.
Oh yes when the calls regress to the mean it’ll be nice
SGA has the deepest bag in the league. No one can stop him lmao.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/17yk9ho/comment/k9ujvu9/
Get a load of this guys
“Favorable whistle” got …checks notes…
2 FTAs on 29 shot attempts.
Fun fact, he’s lead the league in drives since 2021 - and it’s not even close