In the early O'Neill's self-made show "Shaq Fool", which is known to fans as the Five Greats, there is such a special "protagonist": Javier McKee.
Because of the strange disease Oftention Deficit Disorder, McGee often does something on the court that makes people cry and laugh, such as teammates grabbing the rebound in the front court and running back to the backcourt alone; such as holding the ball and falling down quickly after stealing; such as helping the opponent serve the bottom line, etc. A series of operations, resulting in fans and the media labeling him with insulting words such as "low IQ" and "stupidity".
However, it is this big boy who has been ridiculed, but helped the Warriors win two NBA championships, shooting more than 60% in four consecutive seasons, and now, it has become the guardian of the Los Angeles Lakers' forbidden area.
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If it weren't for this attention deficit disorder, perhaps McKee's career would have been a different achievement.
Height 2 meters 13; arm span 2 meters 29; standing height is terrifying 2 meters 91; 3/4 sprint 3.75 seconds; bottom line turn back run 12.75 seconds; vertical bounce 78 centimeters; running bounce 85 centimeters, a very top internal body measurement data, which is why fans will ridicule McGee "below the neck, are super giant".
In the 2008 draft, McGee was selected by the Wizards with the 18th pick in the first round, and even overpowered Ibaka, as a player, he has never been involved with star status in the entire 12 seasons of his career, but he is definitely a successful rotation player.
Whether it is playing for the Wizards, or the early days of the Nuggets, McGee can get a very stable playing time, even if he is trapped by injuries and people's impression flow in the later stages, he can still provide his own contribution to the team's interior line, during the 16-17 season when he played for the Warriors, with only 9.6 minutes of playing time, he averaged 6.1 points, 3.2 rebounds and 0.9 blocks per game, shooting 65.2%, PER is a staggering 25.2.
Although skepticism has always accompanied McGee, his performance with the Lakers this season has completely proved that he is not a lying, but a conscientious and efficient assistant.
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McGee did not stay in the Bay Area after getting his second championship ring with the Warriors in the 17-18 season, and after signing Cousins in Golden State, in order to get more playing time, McGee signed a one-year, $2.39 million base salary contract with the Lakers on July 2, when he was only 30 years old, in order to create his own value and get rid of doubts.
Last season's Lakers were undoubtedly a failure, and the uninterrupted injuries throughout the season tormented the whole team, even if James was in the middle of the army, even though the team had multiple potential newcomers, but all of this, after the transfer trade rumor came out, the team's military morale collapsed.
But our protagonist, McGee, played the best personal performance of his career.
In the 18-19 season, McGee played in 75 regular season games, averaging 22.3 minutes per game, averaging 12 points, 7.5 rebounds and 2 blocks.
Among them, the block was tied, and the rebounds set a new high after the 12-13 season;
Playing time set a new post-11-12 season high;
Scoring per game set a new career high;
In the Oct. 25 game against the Suns, McGee played 26 minutes, scoring 20 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists and 4 blocks on 8-of-13 shooting to help the Lakers win, which was also the first time since the 12-13 season that he scored 20 points.
On October 26, McGee played 32 minutes, scoring 21 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal and 1 block on 10-of-16 shooting, making him the first back-to-back game of his career with two consecutive 20+.
On March 23, 2019, McGee played 34 minutes, shooting 15 of 20 from the field, scoring a career-high 33 points and 22 rebounds, while attaching 6 blocks.
If mcGee was a surprise for the Lakers last season, this season, it can be said that it was a joy.
The Lakers underwent a big change in the offseason, four less three people, Anthony Davis parachuted into Los Angeles, the old Warcraft + Bradley and other practical players also came to this team, Vogel replaced Walton's coaching position, and McGee signed a 2-year, $8.2 million contract with the team in the summer to stay in Los Angeles.
So far this season, under the leadership of Zhan Mei, the Lakers have achieved a record of 49 wins and 14 losses, ranking first in the West.
In 63 regular-season games, McGee played in 61 of them, all of them started, averaged 16.8 minutes per game, averaged 6.8 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game, and shot 64% from the field.
If you look at the data alone, The data of the basic season of McGee has declined to a considerable extent relative to last season, but in fact, behind this decline in data, McGee has become more and more mature and has become a "patron saint" player in the Lakers' inner line.
McGee himself is not an offensive interior, and the scoring rise and fall doesn't mean much to him, and what really matters is his performance on the defensive end.
This season, the Lakers have averaged 106.9 points per game defensive losses, 105.5 defensive efficiency, and both statistics are in the third place in the league, the real league's top defensive powerhouse, and they averaged 113.5 points per game last season.
You may think that the addition of thick eyebrows and Howard, the two top defensive toughsters, has made the Lakers improve greatly on the defensive end, but in fact, under these data, it is inseparable from McGee's efforts, and even in some areas, he is better than the first two.
According to the statistics of the stats.com website, in the 1023 minutes of McGee's presence this season, the Lakers conceded 104.7 points per 100 rounds, ranking fifth on the team among players who played more than 1,000 minutes, better than the 105.6 points of thick eyebrows and Howard's 106 points.
In the 2011 minutes of McGee's absence, the Lakers conceded 104.6 points per 100 rounds, which is 0.1 points lower than when he was on the court, but this is not too much of a hindrance, because this data can still be ranked 6th among players who have played more than 1,000 minutes in the team, and the point difference is 0.1, which is better than the difference between thick eyebrows and Howard.
When a defender faces McGee's defense:
Total shooting percentage of 46.6, down 2.2 percentage points from usual;
The three-point shooting rate was 44.8%, an increase of 9.7 percentage points over usual;
47 two-point shooting percentage shots, down 7.1 percentage points from usual;
< 49.3 percent from a 6-foot shooting, down 12.5 percentage points from usual;
< 49 percent shooting from 10 feet, down 9 percentage points from usual;
> 45.5 percent shot from 15 feet, up 9.3 percentage points from usual
In four areas that limited total shooting percentage, two-point shooting, <6 feet, < 10 feet, McGee performed better than the elder Howard, and limited the shooting rate of opposing players to a better level, but in terms of defense of > 15 feet and three-point shooting, McGee performed relatively dismal, the worst of the Lakers' three-member interior lineup.
McKill averaged 7.3 interferences per game (6.9 better than Howard's) in the league, including 6 times per game of interference with two-point shots (5.5 times better than Howard), ranking 34th in the league, interfering with three-point shots unsatisfactory, averaging only 1.2 times per game, ranking 256th in the league, 105 in defensive efficiency, ranking 91st in the league, and also better than Howard's 105.6.
This data also confirms why McGee's defensive efficiency at two-point range and < 6 feet distance will be so good, Howard due to age and back injury troubles, although the physical fitness is still there, but the lateral movement has long been much worse than before, McGee is different, years of substitute status, let him do better than the former in the maintenance of the body, less loss, excellent arm span plus his own inside line of the first-class running speed, so that McGee has a congenital advantage in the defensive frame singles and co-defense, which is why he has less playing time, The reason why the defensive efficiency is better than that of the old Warcraft.
McKirgh played 16.8 minutes of the season, during which time he averaged 5.8 rebounds per game, which translates to 12.5 rebounds per game in 36 minutes, which is better than last year's 12.2, including a total rebounding rate of 18.8% and a defensive rebounding rate of 25.2% that set a career high.
In the card slot competition, McGee is also ranked 61st in the league with an average of 2.1 times per game, which means that the current McGee is not the jumping man in the public impression, he is trying to change, and has been a little successful.
Needless to say, McGee on the offensive end is an extremely efficient offensive endpoint:
His pick & roll man (scored after blocking and dismantling) accounted for 12.7% this season, averaging 1.33 points per game and shooting 66.7%, better than the league's 84.1% players;
Counter-attack/conversion accounted for 10.2%, averaging 1.32 points per game, shooting 70%, better than the league's 86.7% players;
Cut-in scores accounted for 33%, averaging 1.46 points per game, shooting 78.6%, better than the league 83.1%;
If it weren't for McKee's love of having something to do and do nothing to do with a back-to-back singles and show off his hook twice, his shooting percentage would have been higher.
Summary: Today's McGee, no longer the big boy who wandered on the field, will no longer be because of the five major shots that O'Neal deliberately captured, and become a laughing stock in the mouth of fans, as he grows older, his personal performance on the court is more and more like a veteran, people tend to ignore him because of the problem of fame, but the fact is that this season McGee's performance is a little better than Howard, and has become an indispensable internal line guardian of the Lakers' inner line.
But McGee still needs to correct one point, that is, his emotional problems on the court, reducing complaints is absolutely beneficial to him, there have been too many cameras in the regular season to capture McGee's face full of negative emotions, assuming that the Lakers have reached the Finals, the referee blows the penalty scale up and blows him a technical prisoner, which is to send points to the opponent in vain.
No one knows what kind of healthy, attention-deficit McGee can play, and fans continue to question him and laugh at him, but McGee's efforts are there for all to see, and this is already something that many young players in the NBA need to learn.
After tearing off the label O'Neill had put on him, Javier McGee was playing his own performance with the Lakers.