After the arrival of the NBA playoffs, many young players played more than expected performances, like the Green Army's double probe flower, they actually swept the Nets of Durant, the god of death, although Durant was eliminated, but considering that he suffered a major injury such as a rupture of the Achilles tendon, Durant was able to return to the level of the top five levels of the league, which is already valuable, and now there are many players in the league who have collapsed because of major injuries, and finally have no ball to play.
Today we will take stock of the 5 players who have suffered serious injuries or have not been worthy to prove themselves before, and the dead wood is still in the spring, and they have helped the team with their own performance.
Oladipo's peak is still there
Audi is a 13-year top-notch show, although it is a top-notch show, but he has never been trained as a boss at the beginning of his career, the first three years of his career to Vucevic as an assistant, and then switched to the Thunder and then gave Westbrook as a deputy, in 17 years to join the Pacers, he ushered in his first season as the boss, this year he averaged 23.1 points, 5.2 rebounds, 4.3 assists, 2.4 steals and 0.8 blocks, led the Pacers to the playoffs, and was selected as the best defensive team.
Facing James' Cavaliers in the playoffs, the Pacers, under the leadership of Audi, had to fight with their opponents to grab seven, which also made everyone know the bitter Mamba. But just when everyone thought that Oladipo would become a top star, he suffered a torn tendon in his right knee next season, and the season was reimbursed, and this injury would make the player lose his explosive power. At that time, the Pacers planned to send a 4-year, 80 million contract to show good faith, but Oladipo thought that the Pacers wanted to take advantage of the fire and directly refused.
Watching Oladipo not renew his contract, the Pacers can only trade him to the Rockets, after coming to the Rockets, although Oladipo can play an average of 21.2 points, 4.8 rebounds and 5 assists, but that is also the data of the power to play alone, the overall shooting rate is only 40%, three-point 32%, quite inefficient, and then he was traded to the Heat, the average point per game became 12 points, the shooting rate was only 37% is also the original form, and then he suffered a knee injury.
Originally thought that the offseason Heat will not leave Audi, but Riley still gave Audi a chance, patiently waiting for Audi to heal from his knee injury, and finally after returning, Oladipo did not live up to the waiting of Riley and the Heat, and in the last game of the regular season, he played a single 40+10+7 performance, in the case of limited ball rights, Audi has averaged 14.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.5 steals so far in the playoffs, and in the previous game to eliminate the Hawks, Butler Lowry was absent, and Audi scored a team-high 23 points, with another 3 assists and 3 steals.
Oladipo's performance this season has given the impression of being at the top.
Cousins Nirvana is reborn
DeMarcus Cousins was the fifth overall pick in 10 years, and when he first entered the league, he played a very amazing performance, his talent is very outstanding, with top strength and speed, and the low offensive technique and three-point shooting are also very good, at the age of 25, he averaged 27+11+3 per game, because of too much talent, he was considered to be the first center in the league in the future, but his personality was too obedient, the Kings could not stand his personality, and eventually traded him to the Pelicans to join Anthony Davis.
The two most talented interior teams in the league, when everyone was looking forward to the future of the Pelicans, as a result, Cousins suffered a rupture in the Pelicans' second year of Achilles tendons, and because of this injury, the Pelicans gave up a big contract of 120 million yuan for Cousins, turned around and wanted to renew the contract for 2 years and 40 million, and was rejected by Cousins, after testing the free market in the offseason, he was unwilling to gamble on a large contract to give an Achilles tendon rupture inside line, and finally because there was no big contract, Cousins was directly angry, and he began to retaliate against the league.
Cousins's personality is like this, in the absence of a team to give a big contract, he transferred to the Warriors who already had Curry and Durant at the time, the big group of five stars, but to say that Cousins is also sad enough, this year's Finals Klay and Durant were injured, next season he switched to the Lakers to join the former brother Thick Eyebrows and big brother Rondo, originally wanted to continue the leading edge, the result was a cruciate ligament tear, season reimbursement, the Lakers also had to cut him.
Two major injuries have made Cousins incapacitated, the past two years in the league has been mixed with a short contract, until this season to join the Nuggets, Cousins proved himself, averaging 10.6 points, 3.4 rebounds, 1.2 assists and 0.6 steals in the playoffs, shooting 64.7% from the field, 66.7% from three-point range, and the league's first three-point shooting rate. It was just a performance of 11 minutes played, Cousins proved his worth, he completed nirvana rebirth, and believed that he would get a decent contract in the offseason.
Garbage contract Horford
Horford and Durant are the same draft, Durant is the leader of the 07 year, he is the tanhua of 07, from the beginning of the league Horford has shown a comprehensive means, an interior line not only has a low-post attack and frame, but also a strategist and long-range shooting, plus the ball quotient is high enough is also known as the ball blind appraiser, true and false stars and he have played with a look at it, although there is no particularly bright data in his career, but no one will look down on his strength.
The young double detective who led the Celtics to the division finals, but also the hard steel LeBron James lost 7 games, but then Horford left the team because the Celtics did not give themselves a big contract they wanted, joined the 76ers who blindly formed a multi-giant lineup, and won a big contract of 4 years and 109 million, but at that time, the two cores of the 76ers needed interior space, and Horford also had to sacrifice the inside line, so he also played the worst performance of his career. Averaging only 11 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists per game, it has become a premium contract.
The 76ers saw that Horford was not suitable for the double emperor and immediately threw up his hands, because the contract was too big and no team wanted, and finally gave the Thunder, the team that only signed the first round to take in the garbage contract, after the 76ers played that season, they all said that Horford's peak was gone, he would retire after the Thunder pension ate his hundreds of millions of contracts, but in last offseason, the Celtics chose to bring back their former veteran.
Back in the team's system, Horford also did not disappoint the team, helped the team to play the second position in the division, the playoffs helped the team sweep the Nets, averaging 13 points, 7.5 rebounds, 2 assists, 0.8 steals, 0.8 blocks, shooting 58.8%, 60% from three-point range, and averaging 2.3 three-pointers per game, which is very good, and it turns out that the 35-year-old veteran still has a lot of oil in the tank!
King Clay Thompson returns
Clay is an 11-year draft, in 15 years he and Curry formed a splash brothers increasingly tacit understanding, the team also with their two firepower to reach the finals to win the championship, 16 years of the team under the leadership of the two people to play 73 wins and 9 losses of the first record in history, and in the playoffs Clay played the G6 soup in the series with the Thunder G6, but then the team lost to the Cavaliers in the finals with a 3-1 lead.
After that, the Warriors won the Durant House Big Four, the team easily won the championship in 17 years and 18 years for two consecutive seasons, but 4 years and 3 crowns seem to have spent the Warriors' luck, Durant Achilles tendon fracture, Clay cruciate ligament tear, they lost 19 years of championships, and then Durant left Brooklyn, Clay stayed on the team, even if next season reimbursement, the team still sent him a 190 million big contract, enough to show sincerity.
After the general cruciate ligament is torn, the player's explosiveness and lateral movement will decline significantly, and this is not over, the roof leak is in the overnight rain, Clay has suffered a rupture of the Achilles tendon, and in the case of almost 100% impossible to heal, Clay has staged the return of the king this season. In fact, in the regular season, he still followed the script that Clay could not recover, he almost did not move sideways, and the running position could not get rid of the defenders to play very inefficiently.
But since entering the playoffs, Clay's form has gotten better and better, averaging 22.6 points, 3.8 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game, shooting 50.6% from the field, shooting 46% from three-point range, and averaging 4.4 three-pointers per game, he seems to be back at his peak, and Clay can prove that he has to thank the team for being patient enough with him, and Cole's pressure to carry a decline in the regular season has made Clay keep making mistakes.
Beverly overcame injuries
Beverley is the 12th pick in the second round of 2009, he and Curry, Harden are the same draft, but Beverly although selected by the Heat has not been given the opportunity to join the team, has been playing overseas, until then the Rockets gave him the opportunity, from returning to the league, for a perennial overseas league player can return to he will inevitably seize this opportunity, on the field Beverly spared no effort to bite the core of the opponent, like a garbage dog, in order to limit the opponent's stars even use dirty moves.
Because of the hard work, coupled with the ability to ignite the emotions of his teammates, Beverley has also been appreciated by many teams, and Beverley wants to stay on the team because the Rockets gave him this opportunity, but finally in the 17 years of the Rockets' deal with Paul, he was sent to the Clippers, and in the Clippers these years, Beverley was also conscientious, and the playoffs single replaced Durant to help the team bite the Dynasty Warriors twice.
Beverley is like this, he will try his best on any team, he thought he would eventually grow old when the Clippers, but because of last season's successive injuries, coupled with the playoffs average of only 4.9 points, 2.4 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game, the Clippers traded him to the Grizzlies, and the result was not a day later, he was sent to the Timberwolves, and beaverley came to the Timberwolves to prove himself again, and he brought toughness to the Timberwolves after recovery, the team reached the playoffs, and the playoffs Beverley led the team to eliminate the old club.
So far in the playoffs, Beverley has averaged 11.2 points, 3 rebounds, 5.2 assists, 1 steal, 1.4 blocks per game, shooting 44% from the field and 33.3% from three-point range. Speaking of which, do you have anything to say about these five players? Welcome to leave a message to discuss.