That means that on 75% of his put-back misses, he's not generating a bucket. (I counted only taps where it was clear he was trying to tap the ball into the bucket, not just tapping it to himself.) Of his 69 registered makes off put-back attempts, only 13 (18%) came after a tap-back, and only four after multiple tap-backs. I went back and watched every put-back attempt that Drummond has created this season. What's interesting is the debate on whether his tap-backs are actually effective or not.
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It sure seems that way, and until he can get that free throw percentage north of 70%, Drummond is going to continue to be this statistical anomaly who is a cash cow for DFS players, fantasy owners and prop bet gamblers, but maybe not so much for his actual team. As a result, has he committed to an airborne strategy of tapping the ball at the hoop as many times as he can before it actually goes in? (Remember: Those all count as rebounds.) You have to imagine Drummond is hesitant to bring the ball down because he knows what’s coming: a first-class trip to the charity stripe. You get hacked by dudes strong enough to keep the AND-1, more times than not, from going in. This is what happens when you are a mountain of muscle and shoot 42.8% from the free throw line throughout your career. This season, Drummond ranks 23rd in the entire NBA in free throws attempted - and has been near the top of this category for the majority of his career. We could sit here and drop stats all day to argue, but one thing we can all agree on is that this man gets absolutely mauled around the rim. To make matters worse, as the league’s other big men continue to evolve in this area, Drummond’s accuracy in the paint throughout the years has slipped from the 80th percentile to 31st. His field goal percentage associated with those 166 possessions is 36.0%, near the very bottom of the league compared to other qualified NBA centers. Per NBA.com's stats page, he has touched the ball 1,455 times this season 166 of those were in the post. That means he’s missing 3.5 out of every 10 he attempts. Through 25 games, Drummond’s field goal percentage of shots attempted 0-3 feet away from the rim is at only 65.2%. However, a deep dive into the analytics reveals a startling truth about the efficiency of his attempts: In today’s NBA, you can’t go two minutes without a player shooting a shot and standing in place with their head frozen like a gargoyle - absolutely no effort, desire or mindset to follow their shot - rather, just posing for the cameras. All those rebounds aren’t just falling to him by luck he’s retrieving them in heavy traffic after engaging in violent rim warfare. First and foremost: They may not go in, but Drummond should be commended for the effort required to put so many dang tap-backs up.
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