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Flopping and falling. That has somehow become one of the primary conversations around the NBA during this postseason, which in and of itself is pretty embarrassing for the league. Then again, when you’re on the biggest stage and viewers are constantly watching players embellish contact and hit the floor trying to sell a whistle, people are going to notice. They’re going to talk about it. They’re going to analyze it. And now they are.
Tom Haberstroh of Yahoo Sports recently published an article in which he studied five players during this postseason, watching every shot attempt, both fouled and non-fouled, and tracking how often each player ended up on the hardwood.
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The goal was simple. Find the data. See how often these guys actually fall. To the surprise of absolutely no one, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the pack when it came to ending up on the floor during shot attempts.
The question becomes, how often does this happen with the Phoenix Suns star Devin Booker?
Using the same methodology, and keeping it to this postseason as the sample size (because I definitely didn’t have time to go back through all 1,198 of Booker’s shot attempts this season), I figured it was a worthwhile thought exercise. So I spent a couple of days digging through the footage, watching shot after shot from Booker. All 70 of them in the First Round. That includes 63 official field goal attempts and seven additional shots that don’t count as FGA because they came on fouls and didn’t turn into an and-1.
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I’ll start with this. You have to remember the Suns played the Oklahoma City Thunder, and there are only four games of data here. So while Tom Haberstroh had a much larger sample size to work with, going through 1,152 shots from five different players after the Western Conference Finals, Booker gave us 70 total attempts. That means every time he hit the floor, he carried more weight simply because the sample size was smaller.
That said, Phoenix faced Oklahoma City, a team well known at this point for its physicality and constant contact. And before I even get to the results, one quick observation.
Devin…
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