preface
This season is nearing the end, after nearly half a year of play, each team has also achieved their own record, some teams because of the preparation for the playoffs, choose to rest the main force, and some teams in order to spoil the good draft signing, and even let the main players do not play, one of the most representative teams is the Oklahoma Thunder, the Thunder in order to get a good signing, at the end of the season for injury reasons, let a number of players hang up the exemption card, for this reason they also got the league's ten days of difficulty exceptions, Signing a player with a difficult exception, Helder, did not expect that this difficult special case player would bring unexpected surprises to the Thunder, and he is likely to become the future puzzle of this team.
Two pairs of machines
Since Herder's first appearance for the Thunder on April 2, he has played six games, four of which he has reached a double-double. The first game of joining the ball and Herder for the Thunder to get 11 points, 20 rebounds and 2 blocks, and on April 6, against the Blazers, Holder was even more amazing to cut the double 20+ data, for the Thunder team to hand over 24 points and 21 rebounds, in the Thunder's final game, Holder ended the season with double-double data, the last six games of his average data is 14.7 points and 12.0 rebounds per game, there is no shortage of strong teams such as the Jazz and the Suns.
The Thunder can now be said to be caught in the trouble of happiness, in order to be able to have a good signing, almost all the players in the team can play to the suspension, so that the entire team once had only six people rotating at the end of the season, but the team pressed one but there was another head, Holder also played out completely during this time, the offseason for the Thunder management, they do not know who to deal with, every player is excellent, no matter which one to leave the team will make the management very heartbroken.
Some people say that Helder is actually brushing data this time, but for a potential stock, the best way to prove that he has potential is that he can play good data, obviously Helde did it, at least during this time he performed very well, showing a very comprehensive offensive style, whether it is an inside attack or an outside projection has a good grasp, maybe he can't become an all-star level player, but if he becomes a team role player, even a qualified starter does not seem so difficult, At least he can play the data very well.
In fact, Helder was also a potential stock in high school, at least in the high school player ratings he is also a five-star high school student, in graduation got many basketball school invitations, this year is his third year in the NBA, finally in the end of the season to get a chance to show themselves, and 23 years old he also finally seized the opportunity, the real talent will not be buried.
The lucky one in the small ball lineup
Although Helder entered the NBA after his freshman year, in fact he was a losing draft, basically did not get a good chance, the reason why he can become a loser, and his figure has a great reason, Helde's height reached two meters and three, but he weighed only 97 kg, which is obviously a standard small forward figure, but Helder's style of play is a big forward, and his speed is very slow, the defense of small forwards obviously can not keep up, standing in the position of the big forward and insufficient tonnage, This also led to his gradual elimination, so that he lost the NBA.
In the NBA, there are actually many such in-three internal lines, and the elimination ratio of this kind of internal line is also very large, and even players who are eliminated in the lottery order, such as Noah Vonle, who is now playing in the Shanghai men's basketball team, his characteristics are actually very similar to Herder, but Vonle's talent is even better than Herder, it is this inconsistent figure that makes it difficult for Herd to find a foothold in the NBA, but if he is placed in the small ball lineup as a fifth-position player, Herder is more than enough, Judging by the performance of his double-double machine, at least he has done better than anyone else in protecting rebounds.
And the main thing is that Helder is improving, in high school and college, he is actually not a small forward play, more is based on the internal playing style, his physical talent is very good, whether it is a dunk or a jump is very good, just a little slower, but because he does not project, it is difficult to play a spatial deterrent role in the small ball lineup, but with the gradual elimination of various NBA teams, his three-point skill pack has also been developed, in the last six games, his three-point shooting rate is close to 37% This has reached the average level of the league, so he has the possibility of gaining a foothold in the league.
The Thunder are so talented, this team is known as the NBA's Whampoa Military Academy, And Iterder is obviously unlikely to get a place from this group of top-notch young people, but for now, the Thunder are still lacking in the fourth and fifth positions. So he has the possibility of staying in the team, but other teams in the league also need an inside line like Hurd, and after these six games, he is likely to become the object of competition for other teams, especially teams like the Lakers who lack front line are very concerned about him.
epilogue
"No pain no gain" this sentence is the best description of Herder, to be honest, once some young players are eliminated by the NBA, most of them are difficult to return to the NBA arena, only those who are the most desperate, the hardest people have the opportunity to return to this stage, for Herder, although it is a lost draft, but this has become a motivation for him, two years of drift let him learn to project three points, and now in the Thunder team also has its own place, the future Helder belongs to the NBA, Because this era needs his type of player.