So far this season, Hachimura has shot 59.0% from the field with an average of 8.8 shots per game. It is worth mentioning that the true hit rate is the highest in Hachimura's career.
On the bright side, Hachimura was able to take advantage of the offensive opportunity when it presented itself. But the shortcomings are also intuitive.
First of all, just as Leonard and DeRozan will think of the mid-pitch, Hachimura's mid-pitch is also "decent". It's convincing that the rookie mid-season shooting rate was 37.9%, 43.0% in sophomore years, and 49.5% last season, which is a clear upward trend. What's more, Hachimura's mid-range shooting has the ability to hold shots like a star player.
However, this season, Hachimura has reduced the proportion of shots taken by mid-range shots, from 15.8% to 8.9%. With the decrease in the proportion of shots, Hachimura's mid-shot rate is also on a downward trend of 49.5% to 42.9%.
The turnaround jumper after hitting the back in the low post, and the jumper dribbling near the free throw line, this should be Hachimura's killer feature and the foundation that can give the Lakers a foothold, but now it is rare. The reduction in mid-range shooting has increased the percentage of three-point shots. The value went from 27.3% to 34.3%.
Although he shot 39.8 percent of his three-point attempts, he averaged 3.0 three-point attempts per game from catch-and-shoot after running without the ball. The lethality of this is far less than that of a mid-range shot.
Defensively, meanwhile, Hachimura's opposition defense saw his opponent's shooting percentage increase from 45.3 percent to 47.7 percent. In the 14:18 game against Grant the Trail Blazers, the latter scored 14 points on 66.7 percent shooting.
The characteristics of the offensive end are basically invisible, and coupled with the regression on the defensive end, it is not difficult to understand why there is news that the Lakers are ready to trade Hachimura. However, considering Hachimura's full-sized forward figure, coupled with a 3-year 51 million contract, it is a relatively good contract. Even if the Lakers are traded, they have to get back a good instant combat power.
It is worth mentioning the Bojan of the Pistons. He has averaged 15.8 points and 3.6 rebounds in 689 games so far in his career. Among them, the three-point rate is 39.6%, and the average is 2.1 goals per game. Judging from the data, it is an instant combat power with three-point projection. For Bojan, I think the Lakers are very likely to trade for chips like Hachimura.
Reason: Reconstruction. The Pistons have been in the process of being rebuilt for the past two seasons, and considering that Bojan's age of 34 is obviously not in the future plans, Hachimura is only 25 years old. On the other hand, asking for chips such as the second round can also be used for rebuilding. As a result, the Lakers are very likely to get Bojan, a 16+4 sharpshooter.
What needs to be explained about Bojan is that in the past two seasons, he has averaged 20+ per game, which seems to have reached the star level, and it is a combination of the Big Three for the Lakers. In this way, you can wrestle with the Nuggets, after all, the reason why last season's Western Conference Finals lost was more because of the third star. Now Bojan fills that very well.