Louis Williams from the Los Angeles Clippers is a fantastic player in the NBA. He is a short point guard with a height of only 1.85 meters, but he has reached the peak of his personal data in his 13th season, and the older he gets, the more demon he is. He is a substitute player who has not moved for thousands of years, but he often plays the role of the core of the team's attack, and he is killed at key moments. The so-called Hugh City Los Angeles street, inquire who is the father. But with so many advantages, he is always upside down, and he can't get the big contract he wants from multiple teams. So what kind of player is Louis Williams?
185cm tall, 79kg, from 76 people, does this remind you of the AI you once were?
In fact, Lou Wei is indeed an out-and-out AI disciple.
No matter how time passes, AI is always the big brother that Lu Wei worships
15 years ago, Lu Wei, Gerald Green, and Bynum participated in the draft as the last high school students (since then, the NBA has banned high school students from participating). Although Gui was the first high school student in the United States at that time, Lu Wei was not selected by the 76ers until the second round due to his height limitations. However, he was fortunate to come to the idol AI to play, and ai also took good care of this little brother, and to this day they still have frequent contact and friendship.
Speaking about the first few years of his career, Lu Wei once said that AI was an excellent team leader, carrying the team on his shoulders with a height of 183cm. With such a big brother Zhu Yu in the front, he never thought of becoming a starter, and gradually began to grope, how to start from the bench to help the team. This also laid the groundwork for Lu Wei to become the future super sixth person.
However, in terms of ball style, AI's speed, explosiveness and bouncing ability are all the top level in NBA history, and his way of playing is impossible for Lu Wei to fully replicate. In contrast, Lu Wei's style of play is more like the super sixth man Crawford of the previous generation.
Jamal Crawford is 196cm tall, but prefers peripheral projection
The same ball-holding singles master, good at face frame singles and borrowed to break singles to end. (Lu Wei's breakthrough and ability to make free throws are not available)
The same convulsive nerve knife, accurate and unstoppable. (Lu Wei's career offensive efficiency is higher)
The same key to Mr. Ball, the kill is never soft.
1, not an efficient singles master
Lu Wei's strengths on the offensive end are:
(1) Strong ball-holding attack, attacking in any area of the court is at ease, very good at blocking and dismantling attacks, and proficient in scoring methods such as throwing and emergency stop jump shots after blocking and dismantling.
Among them, Lu Wei has launched an average of 10.2 attacks per game this season, ranking 9th in the league; averaging 9.4 points per game through blocking and demolition, ranking 8th in the league; and the proportion of ball-holding attacks accounts for more than half of all Lu Wei's offensive launches. From the above data, it is not difficult to see that Lu Wei is the top star level of the league in blocking the attack.
In the blocking attack mode, Lu Wei's ability is not lost to the top stars
(2) Although short and thin, you can find the best shot opportunity during physical confrontation and dribbling, and create enough shooting space for yourself.
For core point guards with insufficient height and arm span and absolute speed that have not reached the Wade and AI level, knowing how to find the most comfortable shooting space is a compulsory course, and Curry, Irving, and Trae Young are also proficient in this way.
However, Lu Wei is not a prolific and efficient player on the offensive end. This season, Lu Wei can average 18.7 points per game, shooting 41.6% from the field (ranking 112th in the league), shooting 36.3% from three-point range (ranking 88th in the league), and shooting 54.6% from the field (ranking 199th in the league). From the perspective of efficiency alone, Lu Wei is only the general level of the alliance.
Moreover, Lu Wei also has a certain nerve knife attribute, and this season Lu Wei's shooting rate of less than 30% of the games has reached 10 games, and the proportion has reached 1/6.
The Spurs and Lakers are two of the most experienced teams defending Lu Wei
2. Mr. Key to Killing Hearts
Scoring is not efficient, but Lu Wei's offense at key moments is highly respected, often saving the team from fire and water. In recent seasons, the Nets, Bucks, and Celtics have all been his knife-and-knife ghosts. In the playoffs, Lu Wei's three-point kill when representing the 76ers also made the Heat Big Three hate to eat the defeat.
Killing is Lu Wei's best play
Lu Wei's key secret is that he has a very decisive killing heart and absolute calmness at key moments. Once he decides to end the game, he doesn't hesitate to make a shot, even if it's not a good shot in the eyes of others, which he is very similar to Kobe Bryant.
Even though the Clippers have recruited george and Leonard double stars this season, Lu Wei's ability to play key moments has not been masked by him, ranking twenty-first in the league with a key score of 2.8 points per game.
It can be seen from the data that in terms of scoring efficiency at key moments, Lu Wei is significantly better than the two superstars, although this is not unrelated to Leonard George's newcomer, but it can also intuitively reflect the value of Lu Wei.
The arrival of the twin superstars did not make Lu Wei lose his color at a critical moment
With star-level strength, why did Lu Wei gradually emerge in recent years and occupy a place on the main stage of the league? This has to mention his reverse growth career.
Most players in the NBA will reach their peak of personal ability in the fourth or fifth season, and their status will begin to decline around the age of 31, especially for short point guards who rely more on physical fitness. But Lu Wei did not go the usual way, from the first high school student in the United States to the ten thousand years of substitutes, this gap did not make him depressed, hard training made him a late success, the older the more demon, in the height of about 185cm in the player can be described as the only existence.
In his early years, Lu Wei's skills were relatively rough and he was not good at defense, and it was reasonable to always act as a substitute when he was in the 76ers.
The turning point came in the eighth season of his career, when Lu Wei, who came to the Eagles' hesitation and wanted to show his fists, unfortunately suffered a serious injury to a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his knee, which greatly reduced his speed and explosiveness.
Lu Wei during the 76ers period has also repeatedly staged the drama of the intervening violent buckle
For short point guards, speed is their life, and Lu Wei had to start practicing his left-handed skills and jump shots since then, making his scoring skills more comprehensive. At the same time, his long-criticized organizational offensive ability has gradually improved with the growth of game experience, which has led to today's super sixth man.
In the tenth season of his career, Lu Wei finally won his first best sixth-man award.
But this was only the beginning of Lu Wei's counterattack.
In the first eleven seasons of his career, Lu Wei averaged only 15.5 points per game. But then his point average per game began to blow up, and he averaged a career-high of 22.6 points per game in the 17-18 season. This season, even if George Leonard's double superstars are pressed, he still has an average of 18.7 points per game.
In the first twelve seasons of his career, Lu Wei never averaged more than 5 assists per game. This season, Lu Wei averaged 5.9 assists per game, setting a career high for the third consecutive year.
In the first nine seasons of his career, Lu Wei's free throw shooting rate exceeded 85% in only one season, but then he exceeded 85% in six consecutive seasons, which was stable and efficient.
In addition, throughout Lu Wei's career, he has never proved his strength in the playoffs, averaging more than 13 points per game and scoring inefficiently. Instead, last year, he played his career playoff masterpiece, averaging 21.7 points, 7.7 assists per game, shooting 43.5%, scoring, rebounding, assists, shooting rate and other data set a career high, snatching two victories in Durant's uninjured cosmic bravery, washing away his playoff soft egg name.
It is not easy to maintain progress after 15 seasons in the NBA
Of course, it should be pointed out that part of the reason for Lu Wei's reverse growth is also due to the change of alliance rules - encouraging offense, weakening defense, and foul blowing penalties more strictly, which makes Lu Wei, who is not physically talented, have a greater place to play and borrow the East Wind.
The older the demon, the more he gradually became a star player, but Lu Wei is still a thunderous substitute for 10,000 years, and after leaving the 76ers, he has been unable to win a big contract with the Eagles, Raptors, Lakers, Rockets, Clippers and other teams.
Lu Wei's career can be described as turbulent
There are some atypical sixth-person cases in the NBA. Some of them are because of the racing strategy of the field horse racing, such as the Celtic Hafricheck. Some are due to physical reasons, such as Ginobili, who has only played more than 30 minutes in two seasons of his 16-year career. Some are also due to the distribution of the ball, such as James Harden during the Thunder era. These players have the level of superstars, and on the bench side are real dimensionality reduction blows.
Lu Wei was not the case, he was a very pure sixth person. His personal defense has always been at the bottom of the league, the organizational offense has only been practiced in the past few years, and the value of his presence on the field for the team is to score, and the relatively single functionality and the need for a ball in hand to dominate the game make him only accept the positioning of the substitute.
Therefore, there is a gap between the personal ability of the superstar and the superstar, which is why Lu Wei has been displaced and unable to get a big contract. Players with similar positioning also include Jeremy Lin and Rose after a major injury, they all need the ball, they are not qualified enough to be fixed-point shooters, and their defensive ability is relatively average. Relatively monolithic functionality led to the need for them to shine in specific teams and environments, and to trust their coaches to build tactics around them, such as Jeremy Lin vs. Hornets, Rose on the verge of retirement from the Cavaliers but the Timberwolves in Thibodeau.
The re-blooming Rose also only got a contract with an annual salary of $8 million
Here it is necessary to mention the use of Rivers' guidance for Lu Wei. Earlier at the Clippers, Rivers and Crawford had a very good cooperation, using his indiscriminate singles ability to help Paul share the pressure and use Italicus, while Rivers used it more directly.
In terms of personnel collocation, he equipped Lu Wei with defensive tough players such as Beverley, Gallinari, Maxcott and other wings with three-point ability, and Harrell's eating cake and blocking masters. Tactically, Rivers controls Lu Wei's playing time on the one hand, and concentrates the ball on Lu Wei in a limited time. In the 18-19 season, for example, Lu Wei averaged only 26 minutes per game, but the usage rate reached a staggering 33%, thus ensuring that Lu Wei maximized his personal value as much as possible when he was physically fit.
Burle Rivers is an important reason for Lu Wei to stay with the Clippers
This season is already Lu Wei's fifteenth season in the NBA, and although the full body Clippers have not run well and have not been able to play the expected combat effectiveness, pairing with Leonard George is undoubtedly his best chance to challenge the championship. I hope that this super sixth person who is getting older and more demon can prove his worth and seize the opportunity to realize his dream in the final stage of his career.