"Big guys always succeed when they play with Paul," mcGee said in a recent interview with reporters.
Look at McGee this season, although it is only the second choice on the team's No. 5 position, on Paul's side, the 33-year-old McGee still handed over a record of averaging 10.3 points and 7.5 rebounds per game, and can get 23.3 points and 16.6 rebounds per 36 minutes, which is more efficient than in the Warriors and Lakers, all setting new career records.
McKee didn't brag that making the big man better was like a passive skill of Paul, which would be 100% triggered, at least for now, all the big inside men who had worked with Paul had grown, leaped, and even changed qualitatively.
05-11 season: David West and Tyson Chandler
West's first beneficiary, he entered the NBA 2 years earlier than Paul, but during this time, West almost did not play brightly, averaging only 6 points and 4 boards per game, the end of the interior line was not good, and the shooting was not stable enough, until Paul's joining, West only one season, he became a quasi-All-Star big forward, he did not hesitate to hold the ball, only need to mention the line and Paul to make a cover, and then according to the opponent's defensive strategy, choose to go down or bounce, just like Stockton and Malone that year.
Under this style of play, West's average points per game also rose, from the initial 6.2 points, to 17.1 points, and then to 18.3 points, it is worth mentioning that West's only two seasons of his career averaged 20+ per game, and 2 All-Stars, all of which were obtained by Paul's side.
Like West, in Chandler's career, Paul is also an unavoidable topic, before meeting Paul, the 01st class of the list show, the highest score is only 9.2 points, the highest rebound is only 9.7, and it is not a season to get, and after working with Paul, Chandler in the second season, he handed over an average of 11.8 points per game, 11.7 rebounds of the report card, in that era when the data was not yet blowout, the value of double 10+ is still relatively high.
But without Paul, Chandler has never reached such heights again, whether in the Knicks or in the Lone Rangers, because he can't get close to 200 dunks in a season.
11-17 season: Brick Griffin and DeAndre Jordan
Among all the interior lines paul has cooperated with, Griffin is the most talented, he does not need any help, he can easily cut 20 + 10, so Paul's addition, will only make Griffin cut points more easily, the data also shows that in the first year of their joint work, Griffin threw the first career interior finish rate, shooting more than 77%, and the second year of the joint, Griffin refreshed the true shooting rate (58.3%), which has not been broken to this day.
And Jordan Jr., he came from the lowest background, only the No. 35 show in 2008, but benefited the most, with the help of Paul, Jordan Jr. gradually became the league's top center, especially in the 15-16 season, he averaged 12.7 points, 13.8 rebounds, 0.7 steals, 2.3 blocks of the report card, has been selected for the best team first team, the best defensive team first team, was the league's number one center at the time.
But since parting ways with Paul, Jordan Jr.'s on-court influence has plummeted, and he has never touched any honors, and although he is only 33 years old, he has long since lost his connection with the starters.
17-19 season: Clint Capela
Capela was lucky that he not only met Harden, but also Paul, who was almost vomited around these 2 passing masters, a center with no offensive ability, who averaged 16.6 points per game, 88.5% ahead of the league's players, higher than many attacking guards, such as Reggie Jackson, Lowry, no way, who let the family get 286 dunks in a season.
20 years - present: DeAndre Ayton
Before Paul arrived, Ayton averaged 18.2 points and 11.5 rebounds per game, and the stats looked good, but it was very little help to the team because Ayton's efficiency was too low, the true shooting rate was only 56.8%, the BPM was only 0.2, and the VORP value was only 0.7.
After Paul joined, although Ayton's data shrank to 14.4 points and 10.5 rebounds, in the team, he became the most indispensable championship puzzle, the true shooting rate rose to 65.3%, the BPM value and the VORP value also rose to 0.9 and 1.6 respectively, when he was on the floor, the team could bomb 119.3 points per 100 rounds, and vice versa, only 115.6 points, otherwise, Ayton could not enter the discussion of the maximum salary.
Although the two-way defender is more in line with the current trend, for me, I still prefer Paul's traditional defender, they adapt to various systems, with passing as the first choice, so that everyone around them can come together and burst out the power of 1+1+1+1+1>5, but unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer excellent traditional defenders in the league, and we can only silently accept this reality.