Devin Booker scored a season-high 48 points today.
- Of course, it is not surprising. After all, 70 points in a single game have been scored, and 48 points are just a trick.
It is worth mentioning: today there are 5 three-pointers in a single game. Booker made 5 three-pointers in a single game for the fifth time this season.
- There were four games last season.
Booker's mid-range shot is well-known, but the three-point shot is relatively bleak.
The 2017-18 season scored 2.7 three-pointers per game with a 38 percent shooting percentage, and then regressed year after year:
The three-point rate is 33%, 35%, 34%.
35% of career three-pointers, speaking of it, are not like the level of a shooter at his level.
In last season's Finals, he had a 27 percent three-point rate.
Although he played 40+ in the fourth and fifth games of the finals, he shot in the middle and directly bombarded the basket opposite Giannis, which was more frighteningly efficient.
In the finals, Booker shot 0-of-7 from three-point range to see the Bucks win the championship.
Then, this season:
The league's three-point god's long-range shots are falling.
Booker scored 2.7 three-pointers at 40 percent of each game.
The hit rate to the number of shots is a career high.
— And it wasn't "Paul gave him a better chance to shoot." No.
So far this season, deRozan has finished first with 5.4 per game and Durant 5.3 second. Trae Young third, Booker fourth — Paul eighth.
The magic is in the strong three-point shooting piece...
DeRozan shot 0.1 of 0.2 three-pointers per game — he doesn't love to shoot, we all know.
Durant shot 0.9 of 2.5 from three-point range per game, shooting 38 percent from the field.
Trey 36%.
Luca 29% — his withdrawal three-pointers have been a flop lately.
George 27%.
Lillard 30%, Harden 35%. Tatum 28%. Lavin 35%. Curry 38%.
Booker shot 1.2 of 3.1 from three-point range per game, shooting 39 percent from the field.
That is, so far this season alone, the three-point shot, Booker has shot more than Durant, and it is still accurate.
So far this season, the top pitcher in the West.
Who would say, can't see it... Booker shot 44 percent this season and averaged 24 points per game, the worst in the last four years...
— Because Booker only made 9 percent of his shots this season, and 52 percent of his shots were outside the free throw line.
He shot 48 percent in the middle of the quarter and 40 percent on three-point range, both career-highs.
Why did he throw farther and farther away? - Think in reverse:
Ayton averaged 64 percent of his 17-point shooting per game this season, making him extremely efficient.
On November 6 last year, when Ayton was absent from the match against Atlanta, Booker directly exploded a 38-pointer.
The day before the Suns against the Pistons, Ayton opened injured and Booker took over, taking 30 points in 29 minutes.
Today Ayton did not play, Booker scored 48 points.
Don't break through, give up the basket to others, and practice three points yourself.
That's Booker of the season.
Then again, his three-pointer did improve.
Last season, he shot a three-pointer after a one-step dribble with a 31 percent shooting percentage, and a two-step dribble that shot a three-pointer, 18 percent. Three to six steps, 31%.
This season: 41%, 38%, 37%.
It's really accurate.
Booker shot in his early years, notoriously jumping high, shooting fast, and pulling baskets as fast as lightning, difficult to cover. The high arc of his long-range projection is the arc of the wrist swing by raising the elbow high.
If not, you won't get 70 points in a single game.
But shooting three points at a distance is a job that starts from the ground.
In Durant's first leading scorer season, he used to add a small jump before shooting: pull high. Ci Shiping saw this very well and always used this to stick to him and make him lose his balance. Two years later, Durant repaired that basketball straight shot, eliminated the Lakers, and avenged the arrow.
Bryant began to add small jumps to his long shots in 2011 — he had previously liked to take three-pointers straight after a three-pointer in place.
Jumping to adjust that has an impact on the three-point shot.
Back to Booker.
For example, today he got rid of the three-pointer, and the center of gravity was very low before the ball. Pace to find the rhythm, up.
This is not Monty.
Practicing three-pointers before the season, Booker has been practicing this strange action:
Bend the knee to press the center of gravity slowly stride, catch the ball, get up.
This kind of play, of course, is not just a three-pointer.
The low center of gravity rubs into it, and under the push, you can still find the shot space by jumping.
Force starts from the ground.
Including this trick, Tatum used it smoothly last season, and Booker also used it very slippery: it was still a matter of pace.
Because his personal data this season is not dazzling, coupled with the aura of "their team has reached the finals last season", and Paul's excellent performance, it is easy to overlook one thing:
Booker is the first attacker of the first team to win so far this season. The top 1 pitcher in the West.
From another perspective:
Bulls have lavin and DeRozan double horns. Durant on the other side of the net does not mention, Harden's shooting rate is no longer low, and he has averaged 23 points per game. The Bucks Giannis has Holliday and Middleton by his side. Curry's offensive burden is extremely heavy, but the Warriors also have Wiggins, who averaged 19 points per game, and Poole, who averaged 17 points per game.
The Suns now have the league's number one win rate.
But outside of Booker, the second-place scorer is Ayton, who missed 1/3 of the game and averaged less than 17 points per game.
Here's Paul, who averaged 14 points per game.
Of course, the sun has many people, and Paul distributes them appropriately, and more blossoms.
But Booker does quietly burden a lot of things.
Think of it from another angle.
A second-year student who scored 70 points in a single game before he was 21 years old. He was less than 25 years old and scored 40 points in two consecutive finals as the team's top scorer. The seventh youngest player in history to score 10,000 points.
After losing the Finals, he sculpted his pace, pressed his center of gravity, practiced three-pointers in small steps and small steps - and the data was not very obvious, but he played the best defense of his career, and even often replaced Bridges this season to take the pressure on the perimeter defense.
Three-point difference? Losing the Finals to 7-of-7 three-pointers? Then practice slowly!
It's a little strange to say that, but during Paul's long career, perhaps Booker was the most motivated teammate he'd ever met.
It's almost like basketball was stripped away, and fate returned Paul in another way.
- As mentioned at the beginning, today is Booker's fifth game of the season with 5 three-pointers in a single game.
Some players, who have been paid for five years, have only played in the NBA for four years, and have only scored five three-pointers in total. This year, I simply didn't play.
——The same person who has dated Jenna, the attitude to basketball technology, why is the gap so big?