As we all know, the season that belongs to the Eagles is over.
A day ago in the first round of G5, the Hawks lost 94-97 to the Heat, the big score was 1-4 eliminated, this game, Trae Young's performance was once again disappointing, he played 41.5 minutes, shooting 2 of 12, 5 of 3-pointers, 7 of 9 from the free throw line, only 11 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists, and 7 turnovers.
Throughout this series, Trae Young's performance is no longer pulling, almost directly collapsed:
- G1, 1,8 points on 12, 6 turnovers
- G2, 10 of 20, 25 points, 10 turnovers
- G3, 6, 24 points on 14, 3 turnovers
- G4, 3,9 points on 11, 5 turnovers
- G5, 2,11 points on 12, 7 turnovers
After 5 games, Trae Young averaged only 15.4 points, 5.0 rebounds and 6.0 assists per game, shooting a total of 22 of 69 shots, shooting as low as 31.9%, 7 of 38 for three-pointers, shooting 18.4%, and the effective shooting rate and true shooting rate were as low as 37.0% and 46.1%, respectively.
In addition, Trae Young made 31 turnovers in this series, making him the first player in history to shoot fewer than 25 shots but 30 turnovers in a playoff series since the three-point era.
In contrast, Trae Young in the regular season can average 28.4 points, 3.7 rebounds and 9.7 assists per game, 46.0%/38.2%/90.4% of the three shots, 53.6% and 60.3% of the effective and true hits, respectively, and the number of 4.0 turnovers is also not bad, but it is better than 6.0 times.
Apparently, the heat completely contained Trae Young.
This was also to be expected - Trae Young is a very dependent point guard, his strength lies in playing small and military training centers, encountering pinch shots and then dividing the ball to the team shooters, but in the face of the heat of strong defensive ability and emphasis on physical confrontation, Trae Young's advantage can be said to be gone.
Imagine that it was Lowry who originally defended Trae Young, one block became Tucker, and another block became Adebayo, which is not counting Butler, even, in the fifth game, Lowry and Butler did not go up, and the Heat still strangled Trae Young to death.
After this series, Trae Young also admitted: "The Heat are a team that is very good defensively, they rely more on the system than on the players, their defensive system is focused on assisting the defense, if there are players who want to limit, they can do this very well." ”
Trae Young also said that the Heat is the best team in the league to defend him - this is true, this season's regular season Trae Young's four games against the Heat, but also not a comfortable play, the Heat is like Trae Young's nemesis, before the start of the playoffs, the outside world predicted that the Heat will easily eliminate the Hawks, from the result, the Hawks can win a very good.
Back to Trae Young, it is indeed a crotch, but combined with this whole season, his performance is still worthy of recognition.
Due to injuries, the decline of old players and other reasons, last season's East Finals Hawks once hovered in the East at the beginning of the season, but under the leadership of Young, the Hawks finally advanced to the playoffs as the ninth in the East, and defeated the Hornets and Cavaliers in the playoffs to catch the last train of the playoffs.
Although he played an uncomfortable series, it is undeniable that even after the rule change, Trae Young's offensive efficiency is still the top in the league, and last season's playoffs have proved that the offense with him as the core can kill the defensive system of many teams, but when encountering a team like the Heat, Trae Young is too vulnerable to targeting.
Here we must talk about another advantage of Trae Young, he is very "crazy" on the field, but he is still very humble off the field, and he is very energetic and hard-working, after this round of the series he also generously admitted his shortcomings, and said that he will improve his ability to catch the ball in the offseason: "I watched this series, I used the cover and double cover to catch the ball the opportunity should have helped, which is definitely a focus of my offseason promotion. ”
It is not a bad thing to be able to recognize his shortcomings with a series, you know, Trae Young is only in the fourth grade, he still has room for improvement, improving the ability to have no ball will be a huge improvement for him, I hope that next season, we will see a more powerful blowing Yang, hold up, is the real superstar.