Just like a decade ago, we looked down on the talent singer, today's Internet celebrities will still be laughed at by many people.
So, when Raval Bauer sold us his three sons in such a way, we were eager to poke our middle finger in his face, so that later, we could not correctly judge whether Langzo and Lamelo had great generals, especially Ramello, even if he was hand-picked by Jordan as a probing flower, there were still many doubts.
Yes, look at the operation of the ball daddy, which is like cultivating players, it is clear that he wants to go public.
Front foot, Lamelho Bauer just cut 92 points in the high school league, his collection is not only in the United States, even China on the other side of the ocean, know that there is another basketball genius on the other side; but on the back foot, the ball father gave his son a dropout procedure, in order to make Lamelo more hot and more topical, the ball father himself sponsored, ran a youth league, the result is also as he wishes, Lamelo handed over a triple-double that averaged nearly 40+ per game, several times more terrifying than Wei Shao.
It wasn't until he later switched to the Australian League that Lamello's black fans were much less, but it was still worrying, but now, fans can finally let their guard down, because Lamello is indeed a rare genius, he is not only extremely talented, but most importantly, hard enough.
Although all kinds of performances outside the field make Lamelo look like a very clumsy child, exaggerated styling, luxurious coupe, etc., in fact, he does not like to socialize at all, on the contrary, sweating on the training ground and taking notes on the video in the bedroom is what he is most willing to do.
Last offseason, Lamelo, who won the best rookie under great pressure, was still dissatisfied with his performance, especially the projection in the second half of the season, so that summer, he would punish himself with a thousand shots a day, and then run to the gym to practice strength;
In his spare time, Lamelo will not let himself go, he will pick up a large number of video tapes, drive to the home of manager Borrego, like a student, begging the teacher to analyze various problems;
Kupcek said: "The younger generation, there are very few people who will go to the video again, they will only watch the results, watch the highlights, only Lamelo is still keen on this." ”
Borrego said: "In our team, he is the only player who reads the report before every game, really, he looks very seriously..."
Therefore, no matter what geniuses there are, behind their brilliant careers, they are also accumulated by bit by bit of sweat.
After a summer of hard work, Lamelo's improvement this season is very obvious, especially the three-point shooting rate, from 35.2%, to 37.8%, production has also increased from 1.8 per game to 2.8, in addition, his points (20.8 points), rebounds (6.7), assists (7.5) have also set career records, not only broke the team record many times, but also became the first player in the class of 2020 to be selected as an All-Star.
Most crucially, under The leadership of Lamelo, the Hornets have gradually shown the temperament of a strong team, handing over a report card of 40 wins and 37 losses, with a winning percentage of 51.9%.
Finally, I want to talk about Lamelo's ceiling.
First of all, let's talk about passing, many people say that he is like Jason Williams, in terms of creativity and imagination, there is indeed the same magic, but Lamelo's style of play is not fancy, in fact, he is more like Rondo, the brain is full of tactics, those ghostly passes, most of them are the inspiration of finding the opponent's defensive mistakes, the advantage of this player is that he will not be framed by tactics, and it is easier to increase the team's offensive ceiling.
Next to the scoring, like his brother, the three-point shot is no longer Lamelo's shortcoming, but now there is a problem waiting for him to overcome, that is, the end of the basket, 58.7% shooting rate, seriously reducing Lamelo's offensive efficiency, 54.8% true shooting rate, to be honest, the average is a little higher level, in the league's 63 players with at least 25% utilization, he can only rank 54th, and among the 39 players who average at least 20+ per game, he can only rank 35th.
As of now, he can only score 0.79 points per game, only 35.5% ahead of the league's players, and Lamelo is the least efficient of the 28 players who have averaged at least 7 starts per game.
This is also why some fans do not recognize Ramello, thinking that behind his all-round report card, it is piled up by the ball, of course, this is not entirely right, don't look at the efficiency is not so dazzling, but this is not who can brush out with the ball, in the league of all players with only 27% of the use rate, only 5 people have a higher true shooting and assist rate than him, namely Garland, Harden, Trae Young, Jokic and Doncic.
Overall, Lamello is already an all-star backcourt, and now he is still constrained by the offensive end, if the future can improve the blocking efficiency to 75-80%, ranking among the top five point guards in the league should not be a problem.