Hey, the kid got to learning basketball fundamentals late. Not his fault. Once again this season he is No1 in most travel violations: (These are just the ones he gets called for.)
He has played five games less than Evan Mobley and many more minutes. If we factor in those we have this chart for Stable Travels/75
1. Giannis Antetokounmpo 2. Jalen Johnson 3. Evan Mobley 4. Coby White 5. Vasilije Micic 6. LaMelo Ball 7. Deni Avdija 8. Tyrese Maxey 9. Zach LaVine 10. Bobby Portis (Must be infectious then!)
But Giannis is king of many other negative stats too. Double dribbles, palming (when a player’s hand comes to rest underneath the ball and momentarily carries it instead of dribbling), offensive fouls (23 so far this season already!) and charges where he is also leading the league.
People like to pretend these are not important, but the totals tally up to an enormous number of wasted offences which don’t appear in other statistics. While you (and Giannis) are busy talking triple doubles and just points/rebounds/assists, you seem to forget that the purpose of playing is winning. Not just looking good in certain statistics.
Maybe look more often at advanced stats which measure more factors if you don’t understand ball, eh?
(Suprise! Giannis appears in none of them.)
Add on stat courtesy of Becky on Facebook, just saw it and it is relevant. Giannis last season had the 6th most goal tending violations. Given that his defensive stats are all down (especially compared to the others on this list) it is pretty worrying.
