preface
The NBA is a basketball mecca for basketball players around the world, attracting the best players from all over the world to join every year, but he is also cruel, survival of the fittest, and the law of survival of the fittest also applies to the NBA. Today our protagonist is one of the ordinary people who have been eliminated by the NBA - ZEISS. Badinger.
The protagonist of the article - Badinger
Personal Brief
Born may 22, 1988 in California, To a family with a strong volleyball scene, Badinger's older brother and sister were outstanding professional volleyball players, as well as one of the best volleyball players in the United States at the time. He was an outstanding basketball and volleyball player at Lascourt Canyon Middle School. But because of his love of basketball, he chose basketball. No one would have thought that the McDonald's Basketball All-Star Game in 2006 would become the peak of Bartinger's life, and he won the All-Star Game MVP with his teammate, who is the future famous "Death God" Durant.
Share the MVP with Durant the Grim Reaper
NBA career
Three years of rockets, fame
2009 Draft Chase. Bardinger was selected by the Detroit Pistons with the 44th overall pick in the second round, and more surprisingly, was subsequently traded to the Houston Rockets. Officially started his NBA career.
Rockets career averaging points, rebounds, assists and assists per game
Rookie's first year, as a second-round show, we can't expect him to make much of a contribution. Averaging 20.1 minutes per game in his first season, mostly as a point-and-set pitcher, receiving assists from teammates and three-point shooting, he also lived up to expectations, averaging 1.2 three-pointers at 36.9% per game, scoring 8.9 points, 1.2 assists, 3.0 rebounds, and became one of the Rockets bench bandits.
The following year, Bardinger took it a step further, averaging 22.3 points per game, 9.8 points, 1.6 assists and 3.6 rebounds, all of which improved, while scoring a career-high 35 points against his future old club, the Timberwolves.
In the third year, the 11-12 Season Rockets, with Yao Ming's retirement, signed Jeremy Lin, the Rockets have no real superstar, no real core, tactical play is chaotic, but Badinger still contributed 9.6 points, 3.7 rebounds, 1.3 assists, and a career-high 40.2% three-point shooting rate in the limited 22.3 minutes of playing time.
After four years of displacement, he finally fell silent because of his injuries
Career statistics graph
Probably the Timberwolves were attracted by a 35-point high in a single game, as well as excellent physical fitness, a soft feel, and in 2012 the Timberwolves made a deal with the Rockets, swapping Bartinger and Leo with the no. 18 pick in the first round. Eliahu. Eliahu is estimated to be unfamiliar to fans because he has never played in the NBA. The first round of signings is enough to show the importance that the Timberwolves attach to Badinger, hoping that he will serve as a substitute for Kirilenko and make up for the Timberwolves' weak three-point link. Imagination is always beautiful, but reality is desperate. Due to injuries, he made a total of 131 appearances, with a 53% appearance rate, and half of the games were spectators. The stats are naturally not brilliant, averaging 7.2 points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.0 assists in three seasons.
The final season, which can be described as "pathetic," was when the Indiana Pacers made a deal with the Timberwolves in July 2015 to send Damyon. Rudz (edge water dispenser player, three years NBA career), got Bardinger. He made just 49 appearances in the season, averaging 14.9 minutes per game and scoring 4.4 points, a career-low. Then, on March 4, 2016, a buyout agreement was reached, and Bartinger officially bid farewell to the Pacers. Then signed with the Suns, rarely played, became a complete marginal player, signed with the Brooklyn Nets in September, did not play a game, on October 18, 2016, the Nets cut Bartinger, and his NBA career officially ended.
Seven years of NBA career, five teams, must have a way to survive, data analysis
1 Offensive end
Career averages per game
He averaged 7.9 points, 1.16 assists, 1.52 assists-to-turnover ratio, 108 offensive efficiency, and mediocre performance on all offensive ends. The offensive end is struggling, with the only bright spot being averaging one three-pointer per game.
Data graph three-pointers and shooting percentage
As a white player, he naturally has the attributes that white players come with, with a soft feel and a good shot. At the beginning of his career, the Rockets season, he really found his own positioning, receiving the ball, shooting, and empty three-pointers. At the same time, it has super physical fitness, known as "white trapeze", with a height of 2.01 meters, a weight of 95 kilograms, a touch height of 2.57 meters, holding the ball to impact the inner line can dunk, coupled with excellent confrontation, the inner line can easily score. It's just that in the later part of his career, frequent injuries caused a shadow in his heart, and at the same time, especially in the teams he was in, the teams were non-playoff teams, the players were their own masters, and there was no sense of teamwork, which created a decline in the data in the later stages.
2 Defensive end
Defensive main data graph
You can't be a superstar, but you can try to become a top 3D player, like Robertson of the Thunder, Covington this season, are outstanding representatives of top 3D players, they don't have the offensive ability to hold the ball, they don't have dazzling breakthroughs, but they work hard to grasp defense, dirty work is them. And our protagonist Badinger did not find the position, assists, block data is minimal, can not bear to look directly, these main defensive data sheet is really "cold", which shows how weak his defensive level is. Let's look at his defensive efficiency value chart.
Defensive efficiency chart
The NBA's scoring rounds a decade ago weren't as high as they are now, and each team valued defense far more intensely than the league now. Due to Badinger's slow movement, he can't achieve one-on-one defense very well, which is easy to become a loophole for the team, naturally, his defensive efficiency will not be too high (Note: 15-16 season Suns, few participation in the game, not reference). To sum up, he is not a good defensive player.
Data Summary Due to frequent injuries, as well as not defending, the single way of scoring is destined to be eliminated by the NBA.
Gold always shines, and the other arena shines
National champion in beach volleyball
NBA players are mostly athletically talented, Jordan retired, played professional baseball, Iverson was a Virginia football champion, Duncan once beat the Olympic 23 gold Phelps in the swimway, the same our protagonist Badinger has a bursting volleyball talent, he once said I love volleyball, but the NBA league does not allow other strenuous sports, so I gave up. It's time for him to chase his dreams, and he and his partner Patterson have gone all the way to the National Beach Volleyball Work League, and he's become the first person in NBA history: a crossover to win a National Championship. Steve Nash boasted that cheering for Badinger's championship, the transition from the NBA to beach volleyball, was incredible. Yes, not only the national champion, Buttinger's goal is the Tokyo Olympics. When the time comes, it will be him who stands on the Olympic podium, and we will not be surprised.
Final conclusion
Life is a process of constant choice along the way. What would be the result if our protagonist had chosen not basketball, but volleyball? There is no if in life, I have chosen, even if there are thorns along the way, I will not regret it, and I will not regret it. The same road leads to Rome, we have to learn to be flexible, to learn to change, just as our protagonist paints a different color in another field, breaks out of another world. Although Badinger's NBA career is not excellent, we firmly believe that his volleyball career will be brilliant, because this is his love. We wish him well and hope to see his wonderful performance at the Tokyo Olympics. Come on, Chase. Badinger .