Dealing with rookies, especially some super rookies, scouts and fans often have some inertia of thinking.
Of these, the most common,
It is to use a certain star as a template to describe a new person.
Let's say Cai En, since the third year of high school, has always used these two as a template:
Flying Tank Buckley; "First Upper Limb" Big Mama Larry Johnson.
The three of them are all within 2 meters in size, and they are all about 1 meter 98.
That is, the so-called SG gold height (how tall god is that is the golden height);
All are heavy weapons, and the official weight is 110KG away;
They are all born with divine power and can run and jump.
At first glance, it looks like.
Later, Cai En played like a champion,
The way people look at him is changing again:
The faction that didn't favor him called him "the next Anthony Bennett."
Bennett, all know, the 2013 Cavaliers' champion, without a doubt the most watery in NBA history, Kwame Brown is a big star compared to him.
The reason for saying he's Bennett 2.0 is similar to the above—
Short, strong/heavy, mainly athletic.
Look, for the same reason,
The set of templates can make a world of differences from Buckley to Bennett.
Another object of comparison,
LeBron James.
This span is also too big.
Two white-clad... juvenile? Honestly speaking, such a young Zhan temperament is indeed in place.
They are the most perverted members of athleticism since the 21st century.
The two played phenomenal performances in high school and college basketball, respectively.
Their national and global fame, described as popular fried chicken, is not hot, and they can directly stew chicken and rice.
So, here's a chat about the "template" that fools people.
The concept of "NBA Comparison" was touted by the famous draft website NBA Draft.
It spread wildly, like a grand marketing. It has now managed to become one of the most popular draft terms.
And very ironically,
Like the fortune telling "template", the accuracy rate has been low to the heinous, basically similar to Hu Forced Meng, but it is still popular to this day.
The template given by the NBAdraft website for Cain is Barkley and Griffin, and I don't know if this will be the one that montages.
It is popular because it is too "humane".
When fans see unfamiliar names in the draft roster, they suddenly appear from college campuses or from other continents,
If you want to know them, you can't get started,
At this time, there is nothing more labor-saving than looking at the "template".
James' Template: Magician Johnson. At that time, there was no comprehensive rating on the right.
Knowing "templates" is like solving math problems in school:
Decompose complex problems into simple problems,
Break down unfamiliar problems into familiar ones.
Pair a relatively unfamiliar player with a familiar name. In this way, without reading large paragraphs of text, without watching a lot of videos, you can form a first impression of the player in one second.
Ball brother three brother LaMelo, the template is luxurious penny Hardaway. The last person to use the taxi as a template was the fighting national guard Sherved, I don't know how many people remember, a little handsome, but only played in the NBA for 3 years.
In addition to being simple and rude, "templates" are still large traffic users.
Because it is always a hot spot in public opinion.
"Can Zeon reach James' height?"
One question can create a huge amount of heat for a rookie out of thin air.
Fast food understanding, borrowing power to spread, the concept of "template" will continue to be popular... Although it is basically not too accurate.
DeShaun Stevenson's NBA Draft template is Michael Jordan.
The author specifically explained this "major mistake" under the page after it was spread wildly: at that time, the website was just founded, and he was misled by Stevenson and his "perverted" athletic ability at the age of 17.
Clay used Belinelli as a template.
They could have picked a 3D as a template for The God of Soup, but unfortunately this Italian gun template is not very defensive.
Why is it not allowed?
The essence of the "template" is to use the known player A to describe the unknown player B.
It is to use A as a sentence to tell what kind of player B is.
The famous linguist Wendell Johnson has a very strong statement:
"Our language is old, but congenitally inadequate, and is a flawed tool.
It reflects the idea of animism, let's talk about stability and persistence, about similarities, normalities, and kinds.
However, our world contains endless processes, changes, differences, levels, functions, relationships, problems, and complexities.
Static languages don't match dynamic worlds, which is one of the challenges we face. ”
That's so true.
Seeing a beautiful girl, how to describe that kind of beauty?
Can it be explained by the closed moon shy flowers sinking fish and falling geese?
So many details and mysteries on the pitch,
Can a few features be clearly restored?
Wei Shao's template, Rondo and American Cao Fang.
So how crude it is to use known player A to describe unknown player B.
Even if you talk a lot and spend a lot of energy to analyze, you may not be able to accurately describe a player.
To use another completely different person to hard set, the real set is not accurate to a few.
What's more, in the NBA, a circle of elites with a limited number of historical people, it is too difficult to choose two truly similar people.
Most of the "templates" come from stereotypes and a few roughly similar details,
It seems to make sense to listen casually,
In fact, there are too many differences between each other.
Doncic's templates are Kukoc and Turkoglu. Forced to set the European white predecessor as the mold of 77.
The durant driver + maddie's template is already "that smell". But given the completely different trajectories and completely different achievements of the three people's career development, traveling back in time to 2007, it is difficult to see any reference value in this template.
What's more, the players themselves are unpredictable, such as this one:
Leonard's templates are Embiid's Bó lè "Emperor" Bamot and "Elvis Presley" Gerald Wallace. And so it was said,
The body test bounces in situ with only 67 cm of small wheels, and the violent jumping male "Elvis Presley" is used as a template, which is simply a high climb.
Let's not stop and look at the template of "Elvis Presley" at that time:
Wallace's template is the essence of human cinema Wilkins.
In the year of wallace's draft, there was a classic sentence in the draft report: "Who is the best rebounder in Chicago?" He was the trainer who accompanied Gerald Wallace in his shooting practice. ”
Now, Leonard, modeled after Wallace, is now a singles player with "his own offensive rhythm".
Taken together, the essence of human cinema → Gerald Wallace → Leonard!!!?
It's not like that,
Can this man be carved out of a mold?
(PS: The template relationship between the first two was unexpectedly established in 2Kol, both are big tricks that are not very good at shooting, but the reality is much more complicated than the game. ）
The template of chasing dreams, behind this everyone should know, Dudley.
The front one is called Harlan Gaudí, a short white inner line, which can be said to have no resemblance to Green except for short and stocky.
Chasing Dream himself also complained: "He seems to be called Luke Harlan Gaudí, yes, Luke Harlan Gaudí." This is the template that you basketball geniuses gave me on the draft website. ”
Players will change, they will develop,
And some players will develop very unexpectedly.
Too many templates are instantly surpassed.
Finally, the times are changing, if the template of a rookie is applied to the predecessors of too long ago, it will often add a new topic of "Guan Gong Zhan Qin Qiong".
Curry's template is Muhammad Abdul-Raough.
A short shooter in the '90s, the fastest improving player in '93.
Now it seems that we are going to reverse the understanding of this template through Curry.
But the "sharpshooter" template only shot 0.8 three-pointers in his entire career with a 35.4% shooting rate.
Curry scored 3.6 shots with a 43.5 percent shooting percentage.
Maybe the two have similarities in technical style, but it's hard to assume what a player who improved the fastest in 1993 would play in 2009.
"What would happen to Barkley now" and "whether letting Jordan play in today's space will kill the basket" are topics that can only be discussed and cannot be achieved.
So it doesn't need to be ancient.
It's about using players from more than a decade ago as a template.
You can immediately fall into the error of the times,
These errors alone are sufficient to erase all reference values.
"What would happen if you put Kevin Durant in the '80s/'90s without having to deal with online social media?"
Every era is unique.
What we are experiencing now is the only moment in human history.
Everyone is unique, too.
Simple adjectives, labels, templates, simply can't describe every real person.
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The uniqueness of this Cairn does not need to be savored at all.
Zion, whether translated as Cain, Zion, Zain or Ji'an, Funeral Love,
All bring something that has never been done before.
First of all, what is the concept of his height of 1 meter 98 and weight of 129 kilograms?
Blogger Jxmy Highroller has produced a map of the height and weight distribution of NBA players.
Horizontal is weight, vertical is height.
18-19 season,
All the NBA players are in this barrel-shaped area.
The higher the height, the greater the weight, and the difference is limited at the same height.
And yet -
Cain appeared,
This new point on the right is him.
He is the only being left outside the barrel-shaped area,
And he is very far away from the "normal" area.
At 1.98m, he weighs second in the league, behind Boban at 2.21m (Cain is 23 centimeters shorter than Boban but only 2 kilograms lighter).
In Buckley's words, "He doesn't look fat at all, his body fat isn't high" and "he's just too strong."
According to the pelicans' official data, Cain's two tests of body fat were only 8.5% and 9%, respectively.
Pelicans vice president David Griffin also said:
"He's only 19 years old and our medical team has never seen him with such a physique."
But with a height of 198 and a weight of nearly 260 pounds, he jumped like this:
The completely authentic free throw line is all tiptoe on the line and all are tomahawks.
Such a player who can jump with one foot and both feet and jump high and far and fast is all too rare in itself.
People often use the term "defying gravity" to describe players who bounce NBs.
And Cain is the most exaggerated one of the "out of gravity".
His bouncing ability and aerial adjustment ability are surprisingly strong,
Combined with his strength and weight, buckle up the visual effect is strange.
What is certain is that this is another generation of NBA axe kings.
In the 18th Spring Festival Kusina period, Cai En was actually mentioned:
High school genius Cairn Williamson in the race 360 degree windmill.
Notice the opposite team member in the audience, his dad. Covering his face, he couldn't believe that his child was playing with this monster.
Air-connected flat basket crosswinder.
If you've seen the highlights from Cain's high school days,
You'll find that he can really come up with a set of highlights and blow up the whole field.
Top basket 360.
Combat try 360 crotch.
And a young player can't rely solely on aerial performances to become the unquestioned champion of an NBA draft. What we're going to talk about below is what makes this guy really special.
All his weaknesses are true:
His shooting posture is not very smooth, and the arc of the ball after the shot is too flat and not allowed;
Throughout the preseason, all his goals were under the basket except for one empty three-pointer, with 0 shots in mid-range;
The layup was too dependent on the left hand, and throughout the preseason, all his right hand ended with a dunk against the Eagles, and all the rest of the points were left-handed;
The ball is also shot with the left hand by the defender.
In positional warfare, there are really few decent weapons in his offensive arsenal;
If you add the traditional "no three no four" or even "rough brother" and other easy water names to him, it seems that there is nothing wrong with it.
Can you imagine such a player becoming the league's signature?
At least not before.
But on the other hand, from the time he became famous to the present, he has always been too strong:
Senior three, senior four take 40 points 15 plates such as probe sac to take things,
But his popularity only stayed at the collection, and not many people at the time believed that he could continue to bully people in college.
But during his college year, he continued to punch out Godzilla-esque stats:
A PER value of 40.8, the only 40+ in NCAA history since this value was calculated.
He averaged 22.6 points, 8.9 rebounds, 2.1 steals and 1.8 blocks per game.
68 percent shooting percentage, the first player in NCAA history to average 22 points per game, while the effective shooting rate of more than 70 percent of the player, 68 percent shooting rate is the NCAA freshman record;
The third freshman in history to be named NCAA Player of the Year swept across all of the university's major awards.
This is probably the most dire efficiency college student performance in history.
How many players and how many stars the NCAA comes and goes, this kind of efficiency is not to say that the body is good and can be buckled.
To the NBA, 4 preseason games,
Cain averaged just 27.2 minutes per game.
23.3 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.3 assists, 1.5 steals, shooting a frightening 71.4%,
It was all done with low usage and only 12.3 shots.
The 4-game sample is much smaller than the high school/NCAA season.
But Cain completed it in a way that was "unprecedented in history".
The Bulls scored 29 points on 12-of-13 shooting.
23.3 points is the 4th all-time rookie preseason score.
The first two Bellamy and Chamberlain were both ancient mythical beasts.
After 62 years, Cain's average of points per game is second only to the rookie 24-year-old Admiral (24.9 points).
He made 45 shots within the three-point line and went into 35...
Of the 10 that did not enter, 7 were hated.
Of the 35 goals scored, 32 came from within 4 feet (1.2 m) of the basket.
Eight goals per game, 80% shooting rate, are the first in preseason history since statistics are available.
In the Jazz Game I, he played directly against the league's strongest interior barrier, two consecutive DPOY French tower Gobert for 6 rounds.
He played against Gobert, 3-of-4 (including a missed dunk) + 3-of-4 from the free throws.
"Theoretically", each "expert" can analyze a bunch of reasons why he will hit a wall in the next stage.
But he smashed every "theoretical" wall.
"This is high school, and he can't do it in college."
"This is the university, and he can't go to the NBA."
"This is the preseason..."
Now, there is not much retreat for these doubts.
Cain is a fan of Thanos. His assessment of the Avengers Endgame battle was that Thanos could fight five or six at a time without gems. He deserves to win. It's just that the writers have to give the Avengers a good ending.
To this day, he has played incredibly strongly at every stage of his basketball career.
The "he knows water" thing has been discussed countless times, but until now there is not even a real argument.
In addition to many obvious weaknesses, his strength is also really strong:
Rhinoceros-like propulsion sprint ability, speed, strength are full;
The playing style is extremely aggressive;
"Super agile (Gobert evaluation)", the experience of playing PG has given him small skills such as dribbling inside and outside, quickly changing directions, etc.;
Excellent perception, sense of position, exquisite entry timing;
Surprising court vision, extremely high basketball IQ;
Air combat spacecraft, NBA Kirov, can first jump up in the sky to find a way to attack the basket of the big;
Ability to ravage opponents with insufficient tonnage at low levels;
Super comprehensive physical condition, 19 years old has begun to bully a lot of NBA players.
Kirov Reporting.
This is where Cain is unique, he doesn't have too much shooting targets, and he's a little rough, but he's already such a dick.
That's why Cairn was robbed by sneaker sponsors.
He signed a five-year, $75 million contract with Jordan.
The first year-old rookie sneaker contract in history,
The second-largest rookie sneaker contract in history, second only to the 7-year,93 million U.S. dollar contract signed by Nike and James in 2003 (considering that it was 2003, when the house price in Beijing broke 5,000, this contract is also too scary).
In terms of strength, this super newcomer can basically be determined to be genuine.
Star Card wrote About Rose, wrote about Maddie, and maybe hardaway later.
Injuries and illness are something that is cold-blooded and ruthless, and eclipsed.
It is a separate [switch],
And talent, hard work, strength is not on the same line,
But once the switch is pressed to death,
Even the most wonderful plot will end unconditionally.
Speaking of... He also wore a number 1.
The main problem That Cain has to face is actually his knee.
Let's refer to Ross and Maddy,
You'll find that Cain has hit a lot of similarities.
One is his "failure history".
According to the Heinrich Law mentioned in Ross's issue
Behind a major accident, there must be 29 mild accidents and 300 potential hidden dangers.
According to this, There are already many small accidents that Cai En has encountered.
In April 2017, he suffered a knee contusion while preparing for an AAU match in high school;
Zion transliterates "Ji An (Fat Tiger Aka Takeda Tsuyoshi in Doraemon)". Coupled with this body size and shape, Cain's nickname of "Fat Tiger" can't run away.
On February 21, 2019, Duke vs North Carolina, Broadcast Live, Obama arrived, the game began only 36 seconds, Cain stepped on the sole of his PG2.5 foot, and sprained his right knee;
On July 6, 2019, the summer league debut, dunked 4 baskets in 9 minutes, and then withdrew from the summer league with a left knee discomfort;
In October 2019, Cain, who was perfect in the first four preseason games, felt his knees tighten, did MRI and found that the meniscus was torn, and underwent surgery.
The Pelicans still don't understand when or how they hurt.
The healing version of Cain punched teammate Hayes in the face as he celebrated.
Hayes said I'm not going to sit with you guy anymore.
The second is his injury mechanism.
Like Rose and Maddy, he is a player with ultra-high output + ultra-high consumption (low durability).
Rose and Maddy's injuries were related to their poor landing habits.
And even if Cain can land smoothly, his knees will have to bear great pressure.
In an interview in March, Mr. Cain said his vertical bounce should be 46.5 inches, or 118 centimeters. This is basically the living Hulk.
Well, since he's an Thanos fan... Then another purple potato version.
129 kg can also often fly more than 1 meter from the ground close to 1 meter 1 player,
There is no precedent in the history of the NBA.
So even if Nike and AJ give huge star contracts, there is also an "element of gambling" in it.
Before Cain's meniscus tear, Brian Sutterer, an American physical medicine and sports rehabilitation physician, made an analysis video titled "I've Never Been So Worried About Watching an NBA Game" based on his observations of Cain.
Here are a few takeaways --
(1) Cain has more obvious X-shaped legs, which will cause more pressure on the outside of the knee.
(2) It is estimated that some brothers have watched this video of "Walking", and Cai En's walking posture of swinging left and right does not look very smart.
This way of walking is generally seen in people with hip pain.
Brian analyzed, perhaps because Cain's upper limbs were too strong. Walking in this way became a way for him to unload his strength.
In short, it is not normal to walk like this.
(3) He's gaining too much weight. When he was a freshman in high school, he only had 158 pounds, and when he was a freshman, he was already 249 pounds. At the same time, his bounce and speed are also soaring.
Looking at it this way, Cai En's knee can hold up to now, and it has not been seriously injured, and it is already an iron knee.
At the intensity of professional basketball, his talent can still be eaten, and his knees are obviously unable to hold back.
The much-anticipated NBA debut will have to wait another two months.
At last
Above at the time of mentioning the merits of Zee,
I left a little without saying:
He's an exciting athlete, the kind of kickster who can do some sensational moves at every turn.
Players with this trait are even less likely to appear than a superstar.
Consider Vince Carter around 2000.
Think back to Blake Griffin in 2010.
It's another decade, and it's another raw new dish.