Sometimes I think! What is the motivation of NBA players to play? Want to make more and more money? Love basketball and want to win the championship? Like the feeling of being the boss of the team? Or what about other dynamics?
Really here to rub the championship? With the lowest scoring career and the lowest shooting percentage, do the Nets regret signing the All-Star?
He is the most enviable second-round show, and the main reason for envying him is not that he has been selected as an All-Star four times, but that he has envied his 16-year career and received a total salary of more than $200 million.
He is Paul Millsap, Millsap this summer's base salary to the Nets, when the Nets made a lot of money, an All-Star, and it is still a base salary, but now? Look at Millsap's data this season, is it really here to rub the championship?
One, general data
He has made 21 appearances this season, averaging 11 minutes per game, averaging 3.4 points, 3.7 boards, 1 assist, 0.24 steals and 0.38 blocks per game. Shooting 35.5 percent from the field, 24 percent from three-point range, and averaging 0.3 three-pointers per game.
Playing time, scoring, rebounding, steals, blocks, shooting percentage are all millsap career lows, and three-point shooting rates are the lowest in nearly 10 seasons.
Second, high-order data
Millsap's offensive efficiency of 103.3 this season is the third-to-last of the team, just higher than That of Jevin Carter and Thomas (except for the water dispenser players), and the offensive efficiency of 103.3 is also the lowest point of Millsap's career.
Why is Millsap so poor this season? Why is Millsap averaging just 11 minutes per game this season? The reason may be this.
First, age is not forgiving
For NBA players, after thirty years old, it is really the same every year (except for the old Jen Durant), which is especially evident in Millsap.
He averaged 14.6 points per game in 2017
He averaged 12.6 points per game in 2018
He averaged 11.6 points per game in 2019
He averaged 9 points per game in 2020
Averaging 3.4 points per game in 2021, in the playoffs last season, Millsap averaged 6.4 points and 3.9 boards per game, shooting 44% from the field and 26% from three-point range, and it is clear that Millsap is really old. Perhaps that's why the Nuggets gave up Millsap.
Second, the Nets internal line configuration
Take a look at the Nets' current interior players and you'll see that Millsap is awkward, with a mid-range shot inferior to Ade, a defense inferior to Griffin, a movement speed not as fast as Claxton, plus a height of 2.01 meters, the shortest of the four interiors.
Of course, Millsap also has something to praise this season, defensive performance, this season against Millsap defense, the shooting rate of opposing players will fall from 45.6%, directly to 41.6%,
With the basket less than 6 feet below (frame data), the shooting percentage of the opposing player will drop from 62% to 55.2%. Second only to Clarkston. Millsap's defensive stats this season look good, but perhaps the biggest reason is that
Playing time is relatively small, averaging only 11 minutes per game, and the small amount of playing time can give Millsap enough physical strength to help the Nets on the defensive end.
However, once the playing time increases, Millsap estimates that the defense has dropped a lot, after all, last year's playoffs, Millsap was chased by the Suns, and the picture is still vivid.
For the Nets, it can only be hoped that in the playoffs, Millsap can contribute energy in the few playing time, after all, the veteran of more than ten years, although slow, but experienced, has eaten more salt than Clarkston has eaten, and hopes that Millsap will be like Iguodala, and the playoffs will angrily lift the coffin board.
Fans and friends, with Millsap in his current state, this year's playoffs, can the Nets count on? Leave me a message to discuss.