Once upon a time, in the league, mid-range shooting was the most stable and gorgeous means of scoring, in the nineties last season, but whenever you were a league supergiant, you did not have a precise and beautiful mid-range shooting, you were really embarrassed to say hello to others. Jordan also relied on mid-range shooting to "kill" his opponents in the extremely intense hand-to-hand combat of that year, and many of the classic pictures in the history of the NBA ended perfectly with mid-range shooting.
Even in the early twenty-first century, the league's top scorers have used mid-range shooting as a kill in their arsenal, and they have not seen Kobe Maeddy's flowing dry pull, Garnett's long two-point Duncan smashing shot among the big players, all of which have long been a gorgeous picture in the NBA classic collection.
However, with the advent of the small-ball era, as the magic ball theory began to be recognized by this league, more and more three-point shots became the mainstream of league tactics, and the way under the basket + three points equals victory, which is indeed efficient from the point of view of scoring efficiency, has also begun to become a strategy followed by various teams. Three mid-range points have only scored 6 points, which is just a matter of two three-point shots and a wave of streams, the refinement of big data, and the tactical model created by each player with the most complete detail library to think, making mid-range shooting no longer the mainstream of this league.
And DeRozan, who now plays for the Bulls, has become one of the few inheritors of this skill in the alliance today. The unassuming DeRozan was also a physically energetic dunker when he first debuted, and at that time he also unleashed his bouncing talent to the world in the dunk contest. As some DeRozan fans say in praise of DeRozan, if DeRozan is portrayed as Paul. George generally, if his city is like Bryant, who has just entered the league, in a metropolis like Los Angeles, then he will also receive more exposure and attention early in his career.
But DeRozan's image is not pleasing, and it is only by Toronto, a small city in the north that has little market in the NBA, in this cold city, he started his career and played a glorious time in the history of the team with a good brother named Lowry. Unfortunately, DeRozan's luck was not so good, even if he showed amazing scoring ability as a fledgling, but the lack of scoring consistency and explosiveness seemed to make him always tepid.
And when he and Lowry reached the playoffs together, in the face of James' absolute dominance, the two of them got the title of "garbage brothers". What's more regrettable is that the combination that was not optimistic about making a difference in the playoffs was actually Lowry and the Raptors who won the championship together after the split, and the reason why they could win the championship was largely due to Leonard, who was replaced by BadRozan. Watching his former brother receive the highest honor after having a new love, it is difficult to imagine what deRozan would feel like.
The brief stop at the Spurs was more of a transition, and it seemed like he wasn't recognized there either. He was like an arrogant samurai in this era, and no one denied his strength, but everyone paid more attention to his shortcomings that were completely inconsistent with the times and could even be ridiculed. But in terms of his basketball skills, although his three-point ability is terrible, it is not impossible to shoot, and he also has the defensive ability and organizational ability above the league average, which are the keys to his foothold in this league.
And now, after the Bulls, the not-so-smiling point guard has finally exploded again, with the team having LaVine, a young player with explosive scoring ability. DeRozan still became the backbone of the team, he still didn't like to shoot three points, he still liked to end the attack with a mid-range shot after pushing into the box against the opponent's defense, he was still the same person, and those who had taunted him began to be gradually subdued by him.
Indeed, he has a lot of Kobe Bryant's shadow on him, and the beauty of his mid-range shooting is gradually equated with that of the legendary shooting guard. His ability to score explosives and score consistently has also improved significantly. And unlike the original, he began to take over the game with his own scores, and he began to be willing to use his mid-range shots to compete with opponents. In a regular season game against the Clippers that just ended, DeRozan once again killed red-eyed, facing Paul George, he scored 50 points, whether it was a hand-to-hand combat under the basket or a mid-range must-kill, he used extra freehand.
Maybe the Bulls team has a hard time approaching the championship this season, and DeRozan has a hard time approaching the god in the history of this team who wears the number 23, but DeRozan is DeRozan, who is both a sunset warrior in the middle distance era and a proud lone soul of this sunset warrior.