Who performed the most surprisingly this season? Is it Morant, Three-Ball, Garland or DeRozan?
The first three are normal balls, after all, they are all high picks, now adapted to the rhythm of the league, with excellent talent to play to the current height can also be understood, and in the NBA officially announced the first round of All-Star voting, Morant ranked third in the Western Conference backcourt, pressing Paul, Booker, the Eastern Conference backcourt three goals fifth, Garland ninth, it seems that Morant and three goals are more likely to be selected as All-Stars.
And who do you think will be the first in the Backcourt in the Eastern Conference? Harden, whose popularity has been high in previous years, was pressed in the second position, and the first was DeRozan, who got 1487598 votes, far more than the second Harden (892065 draft), and Azan's votes in the entire East are only behind Durant and Alphabet Brother, if placed before this season, I believe no one will think that Azan will have such popularity and strength.
Speaking of pseudo-stars, this is the label on DeRozan in the past few years, although he has played an average of 27+5+4 per game in a single season during the Raptors period, and is also a perennial All-Star player, but DeRozan in this period is called a garbage brother, suppressed by James for many years, and the key moment is extremely crotch-pulling. He was then traded to the Spurs, and Leonard led the Raptors to a championship in his first season, which also made DeRozan more ridiculed.
After joining the Spurs, because the Spurs played the team basketball system, DeRozan's skills could not be fully played, and now everyone shoots three points, his inefficient mid-range is also excluded, in the Spurs in the past two years, it can be said that he is not happy, even the All-Star has lost, but fortunately Popovich did not ask DeRozan to deliberately change his playing style, did not let him adapt to the three points, but let him insist on his own mid-range play and maintain confidence.
A player who does not have three points, weak at key moments is more known as a garbage brother, it is necessarily difficult to get a top salary, in the offseason Spurs have thought of a maximum salary extension deRozan, but Azan gave up, he did not like to be constrained, with a 3-year 81.9 million contract to join the Bulls, this season's annual salary of 26 million, considering his previous performance in the Spurs, he is also worth this contract, the Bulls took him to let him assist Lavin.
As a result, the offseason league announced that the change in the rules made DeRozan usher in the spring, the league decided to promote confrontation, and cancel the unreasonable foul outside the three-point line, so that most teams dare to fight on the three-point line, many players known for touching porcelain are also invisible, and DeRozan, although the three-point unreliable, but the mid-range insoluble player has been promoted in disguise, after all, he does not need offensive space.
Coupled with the rise in age, he is no longer a garbage brother, in this season DeRozan played the league's top ten level level, averaging 26.9 points, 5 rebounds, 4.5 assists, 0.9 steals per game, shooting 49.4%, three-point shooting rate of 36.2%, averaging fifth in the league, leading the Bulls is now in the first place in the East, although LaVine is the nominal boss of this team, but the real core is DeRozan, this season DeRozan is still the king of the final quarter, and his performance in key moments is also very terrifying.
This season, the Bulls played 18 key moments, DeRozan can average 4 points per game, shooting 56.8% from the field, shooting 100% from three-point range, and several players who score more than him in key moments, none of them can compare with DeRozan in terms of overall shooting rate and three-point shooting rate, and stabilize a batch! It is worth mentioning that DeRozan has killed the Pacers and Wizards in three consecutive points before, and he is called the contemporary Kobe Bryant by many fans.
The Bulls' annual salary of 26 million to win such a good player can be said to be very profitable, looking at the current league, DeRozan's strength ranks in the top ten of the league should not be too much doubt, right? If I can continue to perform now, I even think DeRozan has a chance to win the regular season MVP!