To describe Manu reasonably is not a little inappropriate. As the most enchanted superstar in the history of the league, Manu is good at using various unreasonable means to get reasonable scores. So, Popovich pressed him to the bench, after all, there is such a player, the Spurs will make a lot of people frightened. After all, there was no idea when Dopovich would use the demon knife. As the old saying goes: "Good times sports car adversity Buddha, desperate demon knives to cut chaos demons". Regarding the prestige of Ginobili, I think many people have heard about it.
Popovich's GDP, magnified into the entire Spurs team, is a very sophisticated and coordinated machine. Everyone knows what they need to do and everyone is paying for the team. So, the Spurs played the most classic team basketball. But in this team, Manu is the most irrational one. He is a spoiler, and any situation that cannot be solved by the team can be solved by handing it over to Manu. Averaging less than thirty minutes per game, of course, this statistic is already very good for a substitute player, manu can deliver an answer that satisfies everyone, which is the main reason why Popovich is willing to give Manu the most important messy privilege of the team.
At the heart of the Spurs is the troika. When the three of them are on the court, the Spurs' offense and defense make sense. First, Parker will launch an active charge, and the horn is to block the attack of Ginobili. Through a variety of dazzling transfer of the ball, to the final run, around the cover, with these means, constantly disintegrating the opponent's defensive lineup. Parker runs like a sports car, overwhelming his opponents. Manu's torn defense like a scalpel, and Duncan's strategy like an immovable stone Buddha, the Spurs can evolve multiple strategies that make opponents unable to take care of them and do not know how to deal with them.
So when GDP was officially formed, Ginobili's assist rate at the Spurs was as high as 30%. This is also the first time that fans have seen in a real sense what a team is called. This change made the team different at the very beginning because the atmosphere was different, there was no such thing as an endpoint, that is, everyone was an endpoint.
Manu is a player who is close to perfection, which is the main reason why he is defined as reasonable. Manu has actually developed a good shooting habit in the early stages, and his shooting distribution has adapted to the needs of modern small balls, improving his efficiency as much as possible. So if you convert Manu's playing time to 36 minutes, you'll find that this is a mid-level and above-middle-class, point-forward guard who tends to be efficient. In that era, the role of such players may not be intuitively felt, but once it is put into the era of small ball, Manu's role will be infinitely magnified, which is the main reason why many people think that Manu will play better under the small ball playing lineup.
Manu is good at three-pointers and breakthrough offense, which is what we often call magic balls, and the ability to make free throws is also a must. It can even be said that until the end of his career, Manu's ability to create fouls is still second to none in the league, especially in the near frame area, Manu has various ways to avoid the opponent's cover, really can not avoid, that can also directly cause the opponent's foul, this wave is not a loss. How, when you see this, do you think of some person? Yes, Harden used Ginobili as a template. In the small-ball era, Harden's evolution is unimaginable. And more people have seen that if Ginobili were placed in this era, perhaps he would become this version of Harden.
Because of the frequent need to cooperate with teammates, especially the linkage with Parker, it has created Ginobili's play style early. His blocking and dismantling are so efficient that these tactics evolve to score and drive his teammates very efficiently. This is something that even Popovich did not expect at first. As a scoring guard, Manu is very suitable for describing it with a demon knife at this time. Because he can help the team change the situation every time it is critical but overwhelmed. Statistics show that in the last few seasons of his career, his blocking efficiency still exceeded 65% of the league's players. So it's no wonder that in the last season the demon knife can still be used as the last barrier, which can't be said to be Popovich's stereotype, but this player is really good.
Many people see the way the demon knife is played, and may habitually think that this is an excellent ball carrier. But in fact, it may be more appropriate for you to describe it as omnipotent. Because it is a substitute, the demon knife needs to adapt to various lineups. This leads to the fact that the no-ball level of the demon knife is actually not bad, which is different from Harden, Harden's ability purely needs to be fully played on the ball-holding end, and how much will be limited on the non-ball end. And this problem does not exist on the demon knife. In the years when the Spurs played the craziest, the demon knife has always been a top presence, with the whole team running at almost more than 50%, and half the time is solving problems with running positions.
In addition to these characteristics, the rationality of the demon knife defense is also a key factor in gdp success. A number two, in the muscle world, wants to have a good defensive performance, which is almost impossible. But the demon knife did it, why can it do this? This should be the best embodiment of intelligent defense (or it may be exchanged for hair), not much to say, in 17 years, the demon knife dared to defend from behind at the time when it was most likely to cause fouls, from behind a player who may be the most capable of creating fouls in the league. This achievement alone is enough to prove that the ability of the demon knife is not bad.
Throughout his career, the defense of the demon knife has been very online, has a good defensive performance, relying on cunning small actions, special defensive habits, to ensure their steals and block efficiency. So there are a lot of players who say that when you're on the court, sometimes you're not worried about how you're going to deal with the big guys who are defensively tough, but you have to be careful with the cunning fox-like knife. Because of the loss to the physical advantage, I can still find an excuse to comfort it, but it is really difficult to swallow this breath by losing to this cunning means.
At this point, everyone should understand that the demon knife is too reasonable, causing the team to put him in the most important place. On the bench, he can go up as long as there is a problem with any lineup. It's like our military parade, the most experienced player must be sitting on the bench, and any situation that arises, he is a last resort.