73 points! 50 points! Entering the playoffs, the shortcomings were exposed, and the NBA was overrated and supergiants were born

Lao Liang commented

2024-04-29 22:39Posted in Shandong Sports Creators

In the past few years, with James + Durant + Curry gradually aging, leading the team's dominance to decline, the new generation of stars has risen rapidly, such as Brother Alphabet led the team to win the championship in the summer of 21 (there are some controversies), Jokic led the team to win the championship last summer, and many stars began to slowly dominate the league and prove themselves. This season was a turning point, as the Celtics rode the East in the regular season, from the second-place Knicks to the eighth-place Heat. On the Western side, with the rise of the Thunder and the Timberwolves, the two super dark horses, the process of replacing the old and new NBA has accelerated. The Warriors missed the playoffs early, and the Suns made it to the last train of the playoffs, but they were the first team to go out of the game (or be swept) this season. The Lakers advanced to the play-in tournament but were eliminated only a matter of time.

There are two kinds of NBA stars, the first is that they are unknown in the regular season, but they are quickly promoted when they enter the playoffs, such as the Nuggets duo Murray and Jokic, who scored more than 7.0 points more in the playoffs than in the regular season. Another example is a healthy Butler and a small card, but if you can't stay healthy, then there is no lower limit. There is another kind of star who broke out madly in the regular season, but died down in the playoffs, the most typical example is Embiid, in order to record 30+ consecutive games in the regular season, he can ignore the team's wins and losses, and obsessed with making mistakes. The reason why the 76ers lost their competitiveness in the playoffs this season was because Embiid did the work of his teammates and was not efficient at protecting the rim and finishing the basket. There is also a supergiant that is easy to ignore: 73 points, 50 points! Reveal the stuff when you enter the playoffs, and the NBA is overrated by the birth of a supergiant!

This season is Doncic's sixth year in the league, in addition to averaging 21 points per game in his rookie season, he averaged no less than 27.7 points per game in the following season, and he has already broken the 10,000-point mark in his career when he just turned 25, and he is also considered the star who is most likely to chase James' 411 milestone. Taking this season as an example, during the regular season, when facing the Hawks, he shot 25 of 33 from the field, scored 73 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists, and became the active NBA's single-game scoring champion! Another example is when facing the Suns, he easily scored 50 points, 6 rebounds and 14 assists. Since Doncic entered the NBA, the All-Star and the best team have been soft, but Doncic has three obvious shortcomings, which have not changed and improved!

First, Doncic has been in the league's slowest moving top five for two consecutive seasons, and this list, as far as he is a young man, simply put, when he is not on the ball, he basically does not move, a typical ball-holding nuclear play. Second, Doncic is very fond of complaining. You must know that the European Basketball League is far more competitive than the NBA, and Doncic is indeed good at fighting, but he is also good at putting pressure on the referees. This will lead to his own inability to focus on the game on the field. Third, most of the time, Doncic is passive on the defensive end. In the past two years, from Derrick Jones to Gervais to Washington, several players on the Mavericks' forward line have been in the top five fastest moving players in the league because they have to fill in the gaps for Doncic. Irving has said more than once this season that the team's defense needs everyone to work together, not one person's task and job. But it's still revealing to enter the playoffs!

In the Clippers series, Doncic averaged 29 points, 9.8 rebounds and 8.5 assists per game, which looked perfect, but Doncic's two-point shooting rate was only a pitiful 38%+26.5%, and he relied on an average of 25.3 free throws per game! The most intuitive comparison, Irving only averaged less than 20 shots per game in exchange for an average of 29 points per game, who is efficient? And what is even more embarrassing is that Doncic's effective shooting rate in the playoffs is 45%, ranking 88th among all the 100 players included in the statistics in the league's playoffs! Counting the average of 8 free throws per game, the true shooting rate is 50.6 percent, ranking 83rd in the league! After improving the confrontation, Doncic's efficiency has dropped significantly! In addition, Doncic's other major shortcomings have been vividly exposed: As long as the defensive end is blown for fouls, he spreads his hands and frowns and complains to the referee! As long as the referee does not blow on the offensive end, he can chase the referee's output, and even don't care about the opponent's counterattack and fight.

Including the summer of '22, Doncic nominally led the team to the Western Conference finals, but in the playoffs that year, Doncic averaged 31.7 points per game, but the two-point shooting rate was only 45.5%+34.5%, but Brunson shouldered the burden of the team and rushed all the way to the blindness, but was finally forced to leave by the Mavericks. Brunson came to the Knicks, guaranteed the second round last season, and it was only a matter of time before he advanced this season, when he was the boss of the team, Brunson averaged 33 points and 9 assists per game, and his victory contribution value was far above Doncic! A side-by-side comparison will make it clear that Harden averaged 26 points on 15.3 shots per game in the playoffs this season, and if Doncic has the ball, Harden can average 43 points per game!

In other words, Doncic, as the cornerstone of the Mavericks' team, can have all kinds of privileges without having to defend with all his heart, but with the way he leads the team, he can't compete for the championship. Whether it's James as a stats successor to James, or as Harden's two-way guard successor, he's overrated. When Doncic can play a stable dominance on the defensive end and no longer be the target of being named, and when Doncic can learn not to complain about the referee, then can it be considered to be a real growth. Before that, Doncic was just a regular season star, and his playoff dominance was far inferior to Irving's!

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