That's
(35964919) definitely the foulingnest dude I’ve ever seen. I used to have an Argentine SF who averaged 3.6 fouls a game. His magnum opus was a conference final where he fouled out in 9 minutes. My guy was a potential Hall of Famer. Your guy, at 21, is already an
All Time Great.
I’ve seen a couple of things on the Help forum regarding foul proneness (one very recently.) Someone thought CFS (Chronic Fouling Syndrome) can be mitigated by improving the sufferer’s defense. In soccer overexuberance + poor decision-making = many, many red cards.
My team is always near league tops in FT%. Naturally, when I’m #1, my opponents FT% is liable to be bottom (if you can’t figure out why, you stopped reading a long time ago. In fact, are you even literate? Do you have opposable thumbs?) When I first noticed it, I made a joke, suggesting what tactics my players might be using to distract the shooter (laser pointers, the old Meadowlard Lemon gag of pulling the guy's shorts down as the ten seconds are about to expire, etc). But after a couple of seasons I realized it wasn’t a joke. This year, for instance, I’m third in the league at about 70%. My opponents shoot a league-worst 58+. Second worse is 64+.
That’s extreme, but it’s been going on long enough to make it seem statistically significant. So, with nothing more important to occupy my genius (the demand for rocket scientists hasn’t been so low since 1813), I wondered why this is. Well, if you’re center is fouling a lot, your opponents centers are shooting a lot of free throws. But on my team I can’t see a lot of correlation between free throw % and position. And on my team, the two most foul-prone players are reserves, so there’s not a lot of discrepancy in who I’m fouling. So…are my players intelligent in their fouling? Are they strategically playing Hack-A-Shaq, clotheslining crappy foul shooters who dare drive the lane?
I don’t know. The season’s young, but here’s another discrepancy. My leading score, the PF, is 30-34 from the line. My 2nd leading scorer is 4-8. Huh?