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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's 2P%, 3P%, and FT% have all improved considerably from last season, but his TS% has stayed exactly the same (at 62.6%) (alien.top)
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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

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[–] Dreamlifehunting@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

In case anyone wants to learn more about this type of phenomenon, in statistics this is called Simpson's Paradox, when an effect is observed in each subgroup, but disappears when the groups are combined, due to frequency data (ie. the amount of datapoints does not remain the same in each group).