preface:
If a player's average stats are 20.1 points, 6.7 rebounds and 7.6 assists per game, what do you think of the player? If you tell you that this player is a second-year student, what should you think of him? Yes, this person is Lamelo Ball, this season is his second year in the NBA, the All-Star has been in hand, the data is also very good, but the team still stops the play-offs, such gorgeous data can not help the Hornets win, Ball's control of the game is far less good than his data, so what is Ball's problem?
It's hard to walk without defense
Looking at Bauer's data, everyone will think that this is a rising star, but the data can sometimes be deceiving, and he is really not so good on the field. Some people look at one or two of Ball's gorgeous collections and think that Ball is really good, such as his windy passing, or the smart and flowing three-pointer, but in a whole game, this kind of ball cannot be scored every time and cannot be passed every time. More often, Ball still has one or two three-pointers when the team is behind by a large score, or steals the opponent to complete the second attack when the opponent abandons the attack, and there are many such scenes. Sometimes personal data is accumulated little by little.
And a player really wants to bring promotion to the team, not only to see their own performance on the offensive end, the performance on the defensive end is also crucial, now Ball's defense is obviously not doing very well, although he has played professional years longer than many players of the same age, but when playing in the Australian League, he will develop bad defensive habits, because the coach of the professional league, unlike the coach of the university, will correct your mistakes little by little, he is concerned about the development of the whole team, so Ball's shortcomings, It has been flowing since the Australian period, such as brainless fighting steals, or wandering defense, these are his problems.
Ball's defensive efficiency is 112.5, which is 267th in the league, and Ball's steals are averaging 1.6 per game, but he has been overtaken by far more people for steals than this. Ball is 2 meters 01 tall, such a tall point guard is undoubtedly the most suitable for the small ball era, Ball as long as he practices with his heart, defense can definitely be practiced. When he missed the playoffs last season, Ball said that he wanted to improve in all aspects, but the defensive end was still a short board, and after being eliminated by the Eagles this season, Ball once again said that he wanted to polish himself well in the offseason, you can't just say no, you should pay a little action to be able to, this, Ball at least has to learn like his good brother Bridges, why is his progress all-round? It's because he spends more time on the training ground than going on vacation with his extended family like Bauer.
The point guard should be selfless
Ball's average assists per game appears to be 7.6, but his turnovers are also as high as 3.3, and although Ball averages 20.1 points per game, his shooting percentage is only 42.9%. As a defender, he averaged 3.2 fouls per game, more than any center forward. The reason for this situation is largely because Ball is too unique to play, knowing that Lonzo and Lamello are children born to the same father, why are the two people's style of play completely different? The ball brother is undoubtedly based on assists first, and Bauer is as far as possible to control the ball in his own hands, giving people a feeling of playing particularly unique, which can be intuitively shown from the game.
Ball, as a point guard, averaged the first number of shots per game, and as the Hornets' highest average score per game, Bridges, the average number of shots per game ranked in the top two. From the number of assists and the average number of shots per game, it can be clearly seen that the ball is in Ball's hands, it is too long, less than the last resort, he will never pass the ball well, there are many players in the team who are good at finishing, whether it is Bridges or Washington, they are masters of eating cake, which also makes Ball's assist data look very good, but sometimes especially at critical moments, Ball prefers to solve the game on his own, and does not like to share the ball with his teammates. A lot of times Bridges received the ball like Ball throwing the pot, he rushed to shoot, so it seems too cruel to Bridges.
In the playoff against the Eagles, Ball alone rounded 25 times, only hit 7 goals, and there are many brushed out of the final garbage time, Bridges and Washington are not as much as he is, but ball has 8 assists, the ball is really in his hands the whole time. To tell the truth, Bauer is still too big for himself, as a second-year student, there are older than him, there are also slightly stronger than him, obviously everyone is the same level of players, why do you want to take the ball in your own hands? It's really hard to win games with this style of play because you don't trust your teammates.
Of course, the Problem with the Hornets is not only Ball, but also a Rochelle, the two of them account for about half of the team's shots, and the two are more iron than one, the two must not play together for too long, must send one away. And this year is also the contract year of the team's scoring champion Bridges, it is clear that such a team environment can not keep Bridges, although Ball said that the first task is to let him stay in the team, but you do not pass, let your mouth say the flowers, Bridges should go or go.
epilogue:
I am most afraid that there are problems in the young players themselves, but they do not know themselves and waste their fancy years, but the Head Coach of the Hornets is also too young to let Bauer play according to his own ideas, so the real change is himself, he has to reverse his playing attitude, otherwise it will become a data brush.