After the big win over the Thunder, the Lakers improved their record to 14 wins and 13 losses, ranking sixth in the West. The victory made Anthony Davis sit firmly that "winning is not terrible, and who is missing is embarrassing". It can be said that This season's Davis is really questioned, and many fans believe that Davis has lost his self-motivation and lost the dominance of the interior this season. In fact, Davis's performance is not so bad.
This article is an in-depth comparison of some of the performances of the letters Goyiannis Antetokounmpo and Davis, Davis is really not so bad, and this article will explain Davis's role from another set of data.
This season, the Lakers have limited their opponents' shooting rate to 34%, the tenth lowest in the league, which shows that the Lakers' outside defense ability is not bad. Now that three-pointers are the main means of termination, being able to limit the opponent's three-point shooting rate to a low level is likely to win more games, so the Lakers are doing a good job in this regard. The league has a similar technical statistic, that is, the average number of interference three-point shots per game, and this data is more able to illustrate Davis's role in the Lakers.
Davis has averaged 4.3 jammed three-point shooting per game this season, the highest in the league, as many as the Hornets' Miles Bridges and the Bucks' Bobby Portis. However, in addition to interfering with the highest number of three-point shots in the league, Davis averaged 7.2 interference two-point shots per game, ranking 17th in the league, while Bridges averaged 4.7 interference two-point shots per game, ranking 47th in the league; And Portis averaged 5.8 interference two-point shots per game, ranking 35th in the league. Compared to Bridges and Portis, Davis had to interfere with two-point shots in addition to three-point shots.
Of course, compared to players on other teams, we don't necessarily see the value of Davis in terms of interfering shots, so we might as well look at the level of Davis' interference shots inside the Lakers. Davis averaged 7.2 interfering with two-point shots per game, ranking first with the Lakers, followed by DeAndre Jordan's 3.7, followed by Dwight Howard's 3.5, Horton Tucker's 3.3, and LeBron James's 2.6; in terms of interfering with three-point shots, Davis was 4.3, also the Lakers were first, ranking second was Tucker's 2.7, followed by Carmelo Anthony and Austin Rivers 2, Russell Westbrook was 1.7. LeBron James had 1.5 times.
This season, Davis has been the fifth place on the team for many times, and it is said that he should be the Lakers' inner defensive gate, but Davis has become the player with the most interference three-point shots in the Lakers, averaging 4.3 interference three-point shots per game than James and Westbrook combined. This seems to allow us to find the reason why the Lakers have conceded 49.2 points per game on the inside this season, ranking third in the league, and it turns out that Davis is "not doing business" and should have guarded the inside line, but he had to run to the outside line to interfere with the opponent's projection of three points.
Why did Davis "not do his job"? The answer is actually very simple, that is, the Lakers' outside defense is too bad, James, Westbrook, Anthony and other people are not excellent defensive players, the opponent once facing them is basically a step by the situation, and the consequence of this situation is that the Lakers' defensive system is torn apart by a breakthrough by the opponent, as a mobile interior line, Davis naturally becomes the bottom of the pocket, but unfortunately, such a bottom Davis also has to bear huge doubts.
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