The Bucks beat the Lone Ranger 112-109 at home, ending the Lone Ranger's four-game winning streak while winning four straight, and the Alphabet Brother scored 31 points and 9 rebounds with 66.7 percent shooting, but his 1 of the 10 free throw lines was very glaring. However, the single-game free throw performance of Alphabet Brother is not the worst, do you know who in NBA history has played worse single-game free throw performance?
Alphabet Brother, who won the regular season MVP last season and was named the best defensive player, has super personal ability, but also has obvious shortcomings, such as shooting and passing, but many people ignore the reality that his free throw shooting rate has declined for 4 consecutive seasons. Although alphabet brother's 71.7 percent free throw shooting percentage in 540 regular season games in his eight-year NBA career so far is not very bad, his free throw shooting rate has slipped to just 57.5 percent so far this season, and only slightly better than Andre Drummond's 55.8 percent free throw shooting rate among the 68 players who have averaged no less than 16.0 points per game in the league this season.
So when Alphabet Brother hit just 1 of his 10 free throws in the Bucks' game to beat the Lone Rangers, we shouldn't be too surprised. Since the 1983-84 NBA has a complete statistic, there have only been 11 people who have won no less than 10 free throws in a single game in the regular season but no more than 1 free throw, and Alphabet Brother is the first player in the history of the Bucks to suffer such embarrassment.
In nearly 36 years of NBA history, two players have more than once made no less than 10 free throws in a single game in the regular season, including Shaq O'Neal. As we all know, the only shortcoming of the "Big Shark" is the free throw, the inside line is almost insoluble, his career 1207 regular season games only 52.7% of the free throw shooting rate, 19 years of NBA career only 1 season of free throw shooting rate of not less than 60%, he has won no less than 10 free throw opportunities in 2 regular season games but the number of hits does not exceed 1, including O'Neal in the Lakers' defeat to the supersonic game on December 8, 2000 O'Neal was 11 free throw opportunities and all failed to hit. It is also the highest number of free throw opportunities in NBA history when there is no free throw in a single game.
Drummond is also not good at free throws, having shot less than 40.0% of free throws in 4 consecutive seasons, and only 46.3% of the 611 regular season games in his 9-year NBA career so far, he has won no less than 10 free throw opportunities in 4 regular season games but no more than 1 hit, which is also an NBA record.
The record holder for the highest number of free throw chances for an NBA all-time player to hit no more than 1 free throw in a regular season belongs to Chris Dudley. The center, who spent 16 seasons in the NBA, made 18 free throws in the Nets' defeat to the Pacers on April 14, 1990, but only hit one. In 886 regular-season games in his 16-year NBA career, Dudley shot just 45.8 percent from the free throws.
Alphabet Brother was once hailed as the signature figure of the NBA, leading the Bucks to the league's first regular season record for two consecutive years and winning the regular season MVP, but his performance on the free throw line is getting worse and worse without solving the shooting and passing problems, which is indeed disappointing.