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Through 11 games, DominAyton has attempted just 5 free throws total (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by heaveninherarms@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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My coworker brought this up today and I thought he was misreading his statline somehow. Looked at his stat page, and yeah, it really is only five on the year. I already knew he wasn't one to draw fouls but you'd think you'd at least accidentally draw one shooting foul a game as a starter.

To his credit, he's hit all five.

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[–] JoeTheHoe@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (7 children)

He’s got such a strange skillset. He likes to play with finesse- jump hooks, middys— But he also can’t handle the ball whatsoever, and he can’t really shoot 3s. So you’re not really playing him on the perimeter.

But he doesn’t want to use his insane physical gifts to dunk and draw contact, so he can’t be a rim-runner either.

So you’re left with a gifted center whose finesse in the least efficient/effective ways, and only physical every so often for small stretches depending on whether he took his adderall.

[–] prematurely_bald@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

He has a 43.5" vertical, he can outrun 99% of bigs (when he tries), and he covers the perimeter better than anyone his size. You could almost say he has the physical tools to be a Giannis type if he wanted to be.

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