Today Embiid scored 50 points, a career-high.
The madness is this: it only lasted 27 minutes.
Since entering the industry, some people have said that Embiid is like a big dream - after all, he is now a flexible elder, and everyone says it is like a big dream. But I've seen Big Dream play, and it's not like that. Big Dream is one size smaller than Embiid, has a low center of gravity, turns back and forth and slides like a swimming fish, and the shark calls it a diver. It is said that Embiid's back-to-back play after holding the ball and turning to the basket is a bit like Ewing, but Ewing is not as close as Embiid.
Embiid hit 17 of 50-point shooting today, 9 from the free throw line.
Well...... Catch the ball on your back, step out of the basket, shoot? ......
The top four are our old acquaintances: Durant Derozanbuk Ingram... Fifth Embiid.
Third in last season — behind Ingram and Paul.
In the past two decades, who has been most active in terms of stature, retreating to the basket, testing three threats, or breaking through the bottom line to take free throws, or directly shooting?
Look at Embiid's tentative step after jumper.
Like whom?
Embiid, 27, averaged 18 shots per game and an average range of 12 feet this season. Mid-range shots from the 10-foot to three-point line accounted for 39 percent of the total and shot 42 percent from the field.
Another player, at the age of 27, averaged 19 shots per game this season and an average range of 13 feet. Mid-range shots from the 10-foot to three-point line accounted for 39 percent of the total and shot 39 percent from the field.
It was Melon, just going to New York for the first full season.
Look at this preemptive position breakthrough after the jump shot... Like, right?
So...
Embiid's current style of play is not actually a big dream or Ewing, but a center version of melon - face basket to grab position, three threats to test the step and jump shot.
So his offensive end and melon's problems are similar: the shooting choice is more erratic, and the stroke is up... Embiid is an elder with a career shooting percentage of 49%; melon's strong physique has a career shooting rate of 45%.
But when they want to score, they can always score.
Embiid has 27 minutes and 50 points today, melon, after all, is also the person who scored 33 points in a single quarter...
Still today, Embiid just showed the ability of the chief center in the East, jokic played 49 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists in the West.
Embiid's move and style are surprising, "How can a seven-foot long man do this job, isn't this a small forward technique?"
And Jokic, Popovich described it correctly a few years ago, "Bird reappears."
Anyway, no matter how Jokic plays tricks now, it will not surprise people. Long-range shots, backs, dreamy paces, hook shots, face-to-basket breaks, six European step layups today, playing with Gordon in the 4th and 5th blocks to break the high and low connections – all of these are not intimidating.
It also includes his diagonal long-range pass to Gordon under the pinch to assist in the three-pointer. For him, it was just another ordinary daily pass.
So I'm more likely to notice other little details, like Jokic now, really playing like a dance, wandering freely, spinning as he pleases.
Today they proved once again that they are the league's top two centers — not surprisingly, they were the top two in the regular season MVP vote last season.
Embiid didn't have Simmons by his side, and Jokic didn't have Potter and Murray by his side, but they were holding on:
Philadelphia is fifth in the East and sixth in the Nuggets West.
BBR's MVP tracker, Jokic ranks first, Embiid fifth - of course, the BBR MVP track, is completely pure data calculation, will not take into account the background and media factors.
If the season ends now, they estimate that neither of them will be able to get the MVP, and the record is on the line.
But that's what it means.
It is worth mentioning that the fourth is Gobert.
In the top five, three centers, not counting the Bucks' real penalty area at the bottom of the box, Giannis.
Look at the whole league.
The top two MVP players last season were two centers.
So far this season, the record/stats have combined, with three centers in the top five.
All kinds of high-level stats, perri, Jokic first, Embiid third, Gobert seventh, Harrell eighth, four centers in the top eight. Garrett Allen 11th, Downs 13th. Plus Ayton, who is 16th, seven centers in the top 16, not counting Sabonis, LeBron, Giannis, Porgys, Davis and other part-time centers.
Ws, Gobert first, Jokic second, Allen fourth, Embiid ninth, Towns tenth. Ws/48, Jokic first, Gobert third, Harrell sixth, Embiid seventh, Ayton ninth.
BPM, Jokic first, Embiid fifth, Gobert tenth, Harrell eleventh, Downs twelfth.
Vorp, Jokic first, Embiid sixth.
Epm, Jokic first, Embiid fifth, Gobert eighth, Allen twelfth.
Rapters in 538, Jokic first, Gobert and Curry tied for third, Allen eighth, Embiid tenth.
All in all:
All kinds of high-level data are the world of centers.
Jokic and Embiid needless to mention, gobert, Allen, Harrell, Downs, Ayton, the presence of the people, is also on the rise.
Correspondingly:
This season in the NBA, the three-point shooting ratio is 40% higher.
- Say well it's the era of small balls and three points. Why are the centers up?
Of course, this is just another proof:
The three-point shooting and center era are actually synchronized.
As mentioned earlier, the NBA's first three-point big wave demarcation point was 1994.
In the 1992-93 season, the three-point/shooting ratio for the entire NBA was 10%.
1993-94 season, 12%.
1994-95 season, 19%.
After that 20% of the year, until 2004.
What happened in 1994? Why 12% to 19%?
We all know: In the 1993-94 season, the NBA averaged the top five points per game, and four were centers (Admiral, Sharks, Big Dream, Ewing).
In 1994 and 1995, it was Big Dream who won two championships, two Finals MVPs, and a regular season MVP. Another regular season MVP is attributed to the general. The two-year finals were the Knicks and sharks who big dreams led the team to play Ewing.
That is, 1994 and 1995, it was the four major centers of the civil war. The four centers are simple and simple: giants single-handedly, shooters around.
The NBA's second three-point wave was the 2004 rule reform.
In the two years since, Nash has won two regular season MVPs in a row, and the three 2005-2007 Finals, Ginobili, Wade and Parker, the three breakthrough maniacs of the time, have benefited greatly, and we all remember. In those years, the configuration of the ball organizer + shooter was popular. LeBron entered its true peak in 2008.
But on the other hand...
The Magic relied on Dwight + shooters to rush to the 2009 Finals.
The more space there is, the more room for individual abilities to be exerted.
And no matter how vast the space, the team needs a long man to head the basket. Under the modern offensive and defensive system, any team needs a goalkeeper. The goalkeeper can be small and nimble and not take up space – like chasing dreams – but the team always has to have such a personal town.
The shooter group can open up the space and can run without the ball, but only in this way, the center's strategy and basket protection role can never be replaced; after the space is wide, the offensive and defensive significance of the center forwards is even greater.
- Presumably similar to how modern football needs goalkeepers with a larger range of motion, but not without goalkeepers...
So: While it's all said that goalscorers matter in the small-ball era, the facts are:
The more space the small ball era, the more valuable the good center.
This brings us to something familiar with...
In the 2003-04 season, the NBA's three-point shooting ratio was 19%.
Yao Ming averaged 18 points per game. The true hit rate is 59%.
After the 2004 rule reform, the league's three-point shooting ratio skyrocketed. Yao Ming's average score per season:
18、22、25、22。
True hit rates are 61%, 59%, 60%, and 59%.
In the 2008-09 season, Yao Ming led the Rockets to win 53 years, the Rockets three-pointers/ shooting was fifth in the league - off-topic, the top four were the shooters + Dwight's magic, just got Dandony's Knicks, playing the DDM system let Yi Jianlian go out to shoot three points to Harris to open up the net, and LeBron led the Cavaliers.
That year, Yao Ming averaged 20 points per game and shot 62 percent of the league's fifth place — fronted by Nene, Landry, Ray Allen and the Sharks, who were no longer in charge.
Also, in Yao's day, the league's average true hit rate was 3 percentage points lower than it is now.
That is, with a few three-pointers and a 25% three-point shooting ratio, Yao Ming was already the league's top deadly attack arrow in the 2008-09 season — so that after the first game of the playoffs against the Blazers Yao Ming shot 9-of-9, Coach McMillan directly changed his defensive thinking and gave up the rebounds in the backcourt to go around.
Today, the league's 40% three-point shooting ratio, the box is empty, and everyone's shooting rate is 3 percentage points higher than the average of that year.
Yao Ming stepped into the empty forbidden area...
Guess what happens?