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Where are you sourcing this from?
I want to because LeBron has always been dramatically under statistically on how many free throws he should be shooting by those metrics.
I mean Lebron's drives are accompanied with him pushing and pinning the defender's limbs so that he can blow by. It makes sense they do not reward him with free throws when they are not calling him for the numerous offensive fouls he does.
I suppose years of tape establishing his tendencies to take advantage of the physicality allowed to him just makes the refs subconsciously not call late fouls when he opens up the defense with offensive violations.
Now Jokic on the other hand gets scratches and welts on his arms but the refs do not call it for some reason. Now, that's weird.
What? No. LeBron is doing the exact same thing smaller players do, he's just stronger, faster sometimes and bigger.
The guy gets a bad whistle and always has. Like when Tatum "blocked" him by grabbing his arm right in front of the official, followed by a meltdown and the funniest Pat Bev tech ever.
Yeah right. Watch how he played against Dillon Brooks when he "bullied" him on top of the key to score an awkward lay-up.
He starts with a bent fore arm that he extends opening up space. He then gets into Brooks space pins his leg with an off arm and cleared enough space to take a lay up which Dillon was still able to challenge. He takes the lay-up while making a downward swipe at Dillon negating the little chance Dillon could challenge.
Remember Lebron elbowing Green's chest in the Finals against the spurs to blow the lay-up throwing it out of bounds then complain as if it was a foul?
This is pretty established when you check back to his past games before he developed a decent three. the most egregious with him elbowing the fuck out of Manu and Bowen in the 2007 finals.
Sure there are fouls that are not called against the defender but there are also more fouls that are not called on Lebron or Ant or Zion or Morant.
Lebron is not doing the same exact same thing smaller players do. He cannot change directions the same way they can considering his longer limbs, he might accelerate faster because he's an athletic freak but he's not doing Jordan's one handed in out dribbles or the shamgods smaller players with the same smoothness. His passing (outside of interior passing) might be divine but he's an awkward looking dribbler.
Are you just ignoring all the body contact LeBron is getting on that play that they ABSOLUTELY would call if Brooks was doing it to a smaller, weaker player?
The stats don't lie, LeBron gets less free throw attempts vs points in the paint than you would expect for any other player in the NBA, much less a superstar.