With the NBA in full swing, it has now reached the point of the Eastern and Western Semifinals, and the general direction of the season has been clear, and the eight teams currently competing for the Eastern and Western Finals are undoubtedly more successful this season. However, the so-called giants of the East and West have now been eliminated. For example, the Bucks and 76ers in the East, the Suns, Clippers, Lakers and Warriors in the West, the excessive pursuit of star ability actually deviates from the essence of basketball.
Basketball is a team sport, and today's league has entered the era of stars fighting alone, and the team basketball of the Spurs and Warriors system in the past is rare, and focusing on stars and ignoring the team system has become the mainstream of today's NBA.
For example, the Suns, who formed the Big Three of Durant, Booker and Beal, lack of organizational guards, they are often a mess on the court, and in the last game of the first round of the playoffs, even if Booker scored 49 points and Durant scored 33 points, it still couldn't change the outcome of the losing game, and they were swept out of the Timberwolves in the first round.
The 76ers have a similar situation, the reused Embiid, and when it comes to playoff intensity, the soft attribute is reflected. It has been reported that Embiid worked ball handling and dribbling in the offseason in an attempt to increase his ball handling, but he ignored that he was a center player, and he couldn't grab rebounds in the playoffs and couldn't grab Hartenstein, who was a lot shorter than him, not only that, but due to too much ball-handling, he also made a lot of turnovers, and the Knicks averaged 4.2 turnovers per game in the series.
Although they have Lowry in the starter, in fact, it is difficult for Lowry to help the 76ers except for fixed-point projection, Maxey is more inclined to point guard, counting on Embiid to organize? It's obviously self-inflicted.
The Clippers weren't much better, and the addition of Harden did make the Clippers have a good regular season, but in the playoffs, the Clippers' problems gradually became apparent. The Clippers' injury attributes have not been able to get rid of this season, and Leonard's injury has left the Clippers with a stable output point. But Leonard's injury was not the main reason for their loss, the Clippers relied too much on Harden, and after Leonard's absence, George failed to take his share of responsibility, with an annual salary of $45.64 million, he averaged less than 20 points per game in the playoffs, and the shooting rate was only 41%.
Today's Clippers, Harden's joining is a pros and cons, I remember George said in an interview when talking about his favorite offensive method: "I like Harden holding the ball and Zubac blocking and pick-and-roll, so I have open shooting opportunities." "Not wanting to create offensive opportunities for his teammates, but thinking about his teammates creating opportunities for himself, is enough to show his inertia. The fact is also that George has only broken through a handful of times this season, and it is obviously impossible to rely on Harden at his age to play aggressively throughout the game.
And the Warriors are even worse, they didn't even enter the playoffs, the Warriors system of the year, it is now difficult to see, and it has also come to the season when Curry and others are fighting alone.
Today's NBA is the era of young players, after the first round of the playoffs, most of the NBA players over the age of 30 have stopped this season, and only 6 are still playing! They are: Irving (32) for the Mavericks, Conley (36) for the Timberwolves, Gobert (31) for the Timberwolves, Pope (31) for the Nuggets, Holiday (33) for the Celtics and Siakam (30) for the Pacers.
Old stars such as James, Curry, Durant, Leonard, Harden and other veteran stars have reached the end of the hero's journey, struggling and working hard for the final championship.
Relatively speaking, these stars are relatively good, and despite the final seasons of their careers, they can hold big contracts and at least they can still be the heart of the team even though they are gradually retiring from the stage of history. However, some people are not like this, he still had a contract of nearly $50 million last season, and after the end of this season, no one may care, and he is not even willing to give a base salary of 3 million, he is Westbrook of the Clippers.
Wei Shao's salary of $47.85 million in the last game, after the end of last season, chose to join the Clippers with a base salary, signed a two-year contract with the Clippers, with a salary of $3.84 million this season and a player option of $4.03 million next season. Wei Shao was able to accept the base salary offered by the Clippers, with a clear purpose, sacrificing himself to leave salary space for the Clippers in order to get Harden, and Harden got it, but it did not change the outcome of the Clippers.
Wei Shao has distinctive characteristics, he has been to 5 teams in his career, and his average triple-double data of 20+10+10 per game in four seasons in his career is enough to prove Wei Shao's ability. Even now, Wei Shao is still the driving force on the court, but due to being trapped in the shooting attribute, Wei Shao's shortcomings have been infinitely magnified in the playoffs, starting from joining the Lakers to the Clippers today, Wei Shao has gradually been DNP in the playoffs.
This is also the main reason why Wei Shao has gone from $50 million to $3.84 million today, this season's Wei Shao shot 45% from the field and 27% from three-point range in the regular season, and even worse in the playoffs with a shooting rate of only 26% and a three-point shooting rate of 23%.
After the season, although Wei Shao expressed his willingness to continue to stay with the Clippers, his good brother Harden also made it clear that Wei Shao can help the team, and he is willing to continue to play with Wei Shao in the Clippers. However, this is not the case, well-known reporter Michael Scotto reported that the Clippers are looking for roster changes, and the Clippers management has made it clear that they want to solve the problem of the team's organization of guards, in order to share the pressure on Harden, and it is bound to send away a guard. In this way, the last thing Harden wants to see is about to become a reality. However, what is even more cruel is that in today's alliance, who would want to get Wei Shao?
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