A few days ago, the Pacers beat the Pelicans 129-122 at home, and Turner scored 37 points, 12 boards and 3 blocks on 11-of-18 shooting, 4-of-7 three-point shooting, and completely exploded the interior combination of Zion + Valanciunas. During the game, Turner also gave Zion, who was accustomed to dropping ten times on the inside, a big hat.
Young heroes are good!
Turner's outstanding performance earned him enough attention and made Lakers fans hungry: Why not buy him to partner with Davis?
But Lakers management would rather watch thick eyebrows become more and more painful in the No. 5 position, and practice wrestling with muscle sticks every day, rather than trade Miles Turner, who really deserves to be exploded every day.
Turner seems to have been on the cusp of trading in recent years. Every offseason and transfer deadline, there are various trade plans for him, before the Clippers, the Warriors, and of course the Lakers.
So why has Turner been "traded" all the time? Is he really that powerful?
First of all, the conclusion is that Turner is a good fit for the Lakers, but not as well as he thinks.
When he first entered the league, Turner had outstanding static qualities and athleticism, and he also had good hands, and in his rookie season, he averaged 10.3 points, 5.5 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game.
In his sophomore season, Turner was already averaging 14.5 points, 7.3 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 2.1 blocks per game.
But compared to the mood of a few years ago, Turner is now slightly mediocre. He does not have a strong cover quality and sense of position, and the ability to create space is also average, blocking and dismantling is very stiff, basically down or popping up the three-point line routine, lack of rhythm changes.
But despite this, Turner's performance as a space point is not qualified, and the Pacers let him open up the space is only wishful thinking, and opponents prefer to choose to empty him to protect the basket. Over the past two years, he's shot less than 35 percent from three-point range when more than 70 percent of his shots come from open space.
Therefore, Turner on the offensive end is purely a pie eater, and the barrenness of his own offensive means is even more than that of Capela. Especially in the high-intensity playoffs, the assist rate will be further improved.
At the end of the day, the gap between ball sense and talent makes Turner unable to carry too much ball. He is now in the awkward situation of not relying on both ends of the Pacers - when role players are wasted, but the support is not hot enough, so he has been involved in the trade vortex for years.
Moreover, as a 2.11-meter man, Turner's rebounding ability is substandard because his thin stature and lack of positioning skills prevent him from getting much space under the basket, and this season's average of 8.5 rebounds per game is a career high.
What's more, his defense isn't that good — aside from the deterrent power of the rim under the basket, Turner can't solve the problem of changing defenses in small lineups because he's not agile. On the contrary, the Green Army's Lowe has no problem in this regard.
So what do the Lakers need Turner to do if they get him?
The Lakers don't currently have a No. 5 on the table, and the frame and space are extremely poor, which are exactly what Turner is good at. In parallel comparison, Turner is the perfect upgrade of 20-year-old McGee and Old Spark, so that the center's frame protection ability, athleticism, and space ability have been improved.
And Turner's most important strategic sense is, of course, that he can perfectly release Davis and return him to the more comfortable No. 4 position. ——The thick eyebrows in the position of the power forward are the inside killers that integrate attack and defense.
It's just that as Turner gets better and better this season, now that the Lakers want him, I'm afraid the Pacers won't nod so easily.