Tim_Hardawayy wrote:#3 - You are no longer making a natural basketball play, the entirety of the move is designed to draw a foul, and was never intended to actually score or make a play. These are the James Harden specialty that specifically aim at playing by the letter of the law in the rulebook, but not the spirit. Examples include drives where you intentionally try to trip over the defender, kicking legs out, swinging the ball wildly to hit your defenders arms, basically anything that you'd never actually do in any type of casual setting that are simply to exploit the rules as they're written.
SGA doesn't do a lot of these, though I see it occasionally. James Harden is by far the worst offender here, though I saw Luka doing it more than he usually does this season with the Lakers (I think it was a function of his fitness, easier to get to the line than score naturally). Embiid is definitely a big offender here as well.
The difference here is that Harden and Embiid stopped getting calls on non-basketball plays when the playoffs began and were at times even punished with no-calls by refs.
The same is simply not happening for Shai. And he continues to make #3 moves all game and is rewarded on far more of them than he should be and far more than anyone else in the playoffs.
