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Tyreke Evans is More Than the Layup King: He’s the Layup God

By | 0 Comments | Feb 16, 2019

 

We all know Tyreke can seemingly get to the rim at will.  It's happened plenty of times.  The opposing team tries to play him 1-on-1, and he simply blows by them to the hoop for a layup.  He gets layups in crunch time with the game on the line.  This is by far his biggest offensive weapon, and opposing teams have devoted their entire teams defensive game plans to stopping him from getting to the paint.

What you might not know about Tyreke however, is that he gets to the rim more than any player in the entire league.  Every single one.

After the jump, the stats.

According to Hoopdata, Tyreke averages 8.3 attempts at the rim, about .7 more than the player in 2nd place, Zach Randolph.  He's also 1st in the league in makes at the rim at 5.0 a game (tied with LeBron).  More attempts and makes than every single big man in the league.

These statistics to me are the most telling of the future, and of the current rookie of the year argument.  No other rookie does something so good as to have entire opposing teams focus their entire defense on it.  No other rookie demands this much respect.

No other rookie is as good.

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