Largest FT attempt differential NBA stat

and there aint shite anyone can do about it

Your dedication to the bit is something.

and they just added another 20 tonight

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and there aint shite anyone can do about it

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i also encourage them to bend and spread as there aint shite they can do but stay mad about it

Care to elaborate? I’m interested. It should be pretty clear on a by player average. Makes sense AD and lebron would get to the line more than the 3pt shooting teams in the league. Just seems way too lopsided to not find some humor in it.

TLDR version would be the Lakers run stuff that draws fouls.

I was curious about this differential based on the type of shots taken, specifically FTA per FGA and FTA per 2PT-FGA. Not including tonight's games, the Lakers do shoot significantly more FTA/FGA than their opponents at 0.074, considerably higher than the 2nd highest differential (Sacramento) at 0.034.

However, since 2PT FGAs should result in significantly more FTAs than 3PT FGAs, I thought it would be interesting to look at that as well. In this case, Dallas's differential (0.131) per 2PT FGA is considerably higher than the 2nd highest differential (Milwaukee) at 0.094. The Lakers have the 4th highest differential at 0.092.

The 3 who are higher than them (Dallas, Milwaukee, and Sacramento) shoot considerably more 3s than their opponents at (9.6, 6.4, and 3.5 respectively) but considerably fewer 2s (-11.3, -9.2, and -5.0 respectively. The opposite is true for the Lakers as the shoot 5 fewer 3s than their opponents and 0.3 more 2s.

In addition, while I'm not sure how to find how many shooting fouls per 2PTer and per 3PTer, I was able to find how many And-1 opportunities there were for each. And I'm assuming those roughly approximate to the shooting fouls for each. In particular, about 4.78% of 2PT FGAs result in an And-1 opportunity compared to 0.25% for 3PT FGAs. So roughly 19 more And-1 opportunities per 2PT FGA than per 3PT FGA. So a team that shoots more 3s and fewer 2s than its opponents, should get more shooting fouls.

Overall, this appears to be at least partially a function of style.

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20th in drives per game 8th in post up percentage No style of play is going to have you over 218+ compared to the next team.

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Yes. But while basketball reference has 2 ways to define Free Throw rate, and for some reason there are some differences between the two, the Lakers are 3rd in both with Philadelphia ahead in noth and Dallas and Portland ahead in 1, despite all 3 teams taking fewer attempts from 2 per game (LA with 56.2, Philly with 52.0, Portland with 50.2, and Dallas with 44.2).

The difference isn’t that the Lakers get to the line an unusually high amount, especially considering their shot distribution. It’s that their opponents have the lowest FTA/FGA in the league at 0.173. In fact, their defensive differential between the league average 0.210, is considerably larger (0.037) than their offensive differential (0.023).

Altogether though the difference is that LA ranks near the top in both, and that is at least partially explained by the shot distribution.

But focusing just on offense paints an unclear picture, but your post is especially stupid since post-ups results in more FTAs per possession anyways. But even then, there are 106,583 drives on NBA.com tracking compared to 13,140 post-ups. But those 2 still only account for about half of all offensive possessions anyways.

Tim Donaghy just smiles.