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%

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all stats from basketball-reference