Anthony has officially retired, ending his 20-year career, Anthony has ten All-Stars, four thirds and two seconds, as well as a scoring champion, and has a career total of ninth all-time, always has a long and stable career.
But now the rise of high-scoring performances in professional basketball has also made many professional research data experts and fans wonder, is Anthony seriously overrated?
Anthony and James were a peerless duo in '03, with James averaging 20.9 points, 5.5 boards, and 5.9 assists per game in his rookie season, and Anthony averaging 21 points, 6.1 boards, and 2.8 assists per game. James beat Anthony for Rookie of the Year, and I think it was the closest year Anthony and James came to, and since then, James has opened the gap with Anthony.
Anthony is the closest player to a pure scorer in the 21st century, even counting the 90s, which is actually not a good word, but it is still very suitable to describe Anthony, Anthony's career total score of 28289 points, ranking ninth in history, which is an extremely great achievement, not only requires stable scoring and a long enough career, stability, high output, indispensable. But why do most data experts still criticize this, thinking that Anthony is really overrated?
The main thing is that at the beginning of Anthony's career as a Nugget, he liked a lot of individual singles (although this continued throughout his career), but more than that, he preferred to score at the rim.
Just say a statistic: Anthony's true shooting percentage throughout his career is just equal to the average true shooting percentage of the league, what is the concept, to give a few examples, in several players close to the perfect scorer, Kobe Bryant is 4% higher than the league average, Pierce is 7% higher than the league average, James 8%, Durant is 13%, in terms of efficiency, Kobe has been criticized a lot for scoring inefficiency, let alone Anthony, it is not an exaggeration to evaluate Anthony as an inefficient scorer.
In fact, Anthony's long two-point shooting is his basic set, career average long two-point shooting rate of 42%, this data is already quite good, the 0708 season is basically mid-range, the following season is basically maintained between 42% and 45%, I think mid-range shooting is the real core value of Anthony's offensive end. I think from a technical point of view, it should be the same as Durant Kobe, standing at a very high level in NBA history.
However, in the early part of his career, he was obsessed with holding the ball to attack the frame and holding the ball back, but there were few balls, but the efficiency of the shot after receiving the ball and borrowing cover was far more efficient than his holding the ball. This is not to say that Anthony is unwilling to do more efficient things, but he has long been the first developer on the team, and there is too little time to really explore the field without the ball, until the Pioneers and Lakers period, he began to specialize in fixed points, the Lakers period 8 three-pointers every 36 minutes, shooting 37.5%, already an absolute quality shooter, but unfortunately it is the end of his career.
On the whole, Anthony is known as an offensive kaleidoscope, but the main offensive efficiency is still low, the depth is still Anthony's ball intelligence problem, and throughout his career, he is still too focused on honing his single-handedness skills. One to one, of course, he is very strong, but basketball is a five-person sport, and many shots are chosen too sloppily and do not pursue the most efficient style of play.
But it is undeniable that scoring is the charm of basketball, and when Anthony uses a face frame, a back basket, a ball, no ball, a tentative step, a hesitant step, a jump step to throw a picturesque jumper, how can this matter not make people fascinate and cheer, he is still an artist on the basketball court