This isn’t a knock on Shai Gilgeous-Alexander at all (because he’s awesome), but rather an observation about the power and efficiency of free throw shooting. SGA’s splits happen to illustrate it well this year.
Gilgeous-Alexander has improved across the board – and considerably so. But because SGA is shooting fewer free throws (from 10.9 to 6.4), his overall efficiency has remained constant.
Two-point percentage: up from 53.3% to 57.5%
Three-point percentage: up from 34.5% to 36.0%
Free-throw percentage: up from 90.5% to 92.8%
True shooting percentage: dead even at 62.6% to 62.6%
all stats from basketball-reference
I see his box scores and he often only ends up with 0-3 3pa. Why is that? Lack of confidence in his 3?
This is why EFG% > TS% when comparing how good scorers are