Kirk Goldsberry

Unfortunately, almost all of the scoring increase is explained by a 3.1 per game free throw made increase for each team in every game.

No, I mean, if you're looking at, say, how did we get here?

Like, one of the crazy stats I was looking up is the 73-win Warriors, one of the greatest teams you and I have ever seen, had an offensive rating of 113.5.

That would rank 22nd now.

Yeah.

We've gotten a lot better at scoring in the NBA.

That team would slot below the awful L.A.

Clippers offense right now.

So that just tells me that over 10 years, Bill, the average NBA offense is just shooting smarter shots.

There's more talent, as you describe.

But when we look at just why are we so much higher than last year, we're setting records for free throws and specifically –

certain types of players are drawing a lot more fouls and going to the line, uh, more than ever before.

And specifically Luka Doncic, like epitomizes this trend.

I don't know if you were at the Lakers Spurs game earlier this year at crypto.

Um,

But yeah, Luka is the epitome.

He shot less than nine free throws per game last year.

He's at 12 and a half this year.

He's drawing over nine fouls per game himself, which is the highest number we've ever seen in the player tracking era.

I think there's a few reasons.