So far this season, the most surprising to the fans is the Grizzlies' Jia Morant, in recent days, against the Spurs, Morant scored 52 points with a super high shooting rate, and also deducted the Spurs' 2 meters 13 center Pelter, such a performance can't help but remind many fans of a lot of players similar to Morant's playing style, today counted three players with similar playing styles to Morant, which do you think is closer to today's Morant?
1. Russell-Westbrook
Wei Shao, who plays for the Lakers now, has indeed lost a lot of the shadow of the Thunder period, and the young Wei Shao has also attracted the attention of many fans with his explosive style of play.
In 2008, Wei Shao was selected by the Thunder with the 4th pick in the first round, and Wei Shao and Durant, who had just entered the league, formed an indispensable Thunder double, but due to Durant's super offensive ability, many fans paid more attention to Durant, but in the season when Durant was injured, Wei Shao ushered in a big explosion, and then it was an average triple-double performance for three consecutive seasons, and the dunk after the explosion was even more technical and numerous.
Today's Morant is somewhat similar to the original Westbrook in terms of play, but compared to Westbrook, Morant's projection ability is strong, so far in the season, Morant's three-point shooting rate is 34.4%, and Westbrook's career three-point shooting rate has not exceeded today's Morant, and the highest three-point shooting rate of Westbrook is the 16-17 season, with a three-point shooting rate of 34.3%.
2. Aaron Iverson
After Morant scored 52 points, Iverson posted a picture of himself and Morant, supporting Morant as the regular season MVP of the season.
Iverson entered the league in 1996 as a champion, known for his massive changes of direction and rapid breakthroughs, and won the regular season MVP in the 2000-2001 season and the top scorer four times.
In personal opinion, Iverson and Morant's play style is not too similar, although Iverson has a very good breakthrough ability, but due to height restrictions, Iverson's dunk viewing is not as high as morant today, similarly, Morant's breakthrough and change of direction in the act, did not reach iverson's height, compared to Morant, Iverson's personal scoring ability is much stronger, at least at present, Morant's scoring ability is still unable to match Iverson's.
3. Derek Rose
Morant's explosive play now is easy for fans to remind fans of Rose in the Bulls era.
Rose, who has just entered the league, has a high-speed disguised attack frame ability, and the dunk after the breakthrough also has a very high ornamentality, and now Morant and Rose who has just entered the league do have a lot of similarities, not only have a very good explosive power, but also have a good passing ability, rose at the peak of the average assists per game are more than 7 times, and this season Morant's average assists per game have reached 6.6 times.
But it has to be said that Morant has one point to be stronger than Rose, that is, three-point shooting, although Rose can also hit the three points of key moments, but throughout the career of Rose, at the peak, Rose's three-point shooting rate is not high, and Morant's three-point ability this season is still very jealous of many teams.
Throughout the NBA, Morant's playing style is still very similar to these three people, although Morant still can't compare with these three people in some places, but in many places, Morant still has certain advantages.
Fans, who do you think Morant plays more like today? Comments are welcome!