With a career average of only 5.7 points per game and no season of missed double-figures, why did he have 16 seasons in the NBA and why was he inducted into the Hall of Fame? The answer is the top defensive ability, this man is Ben Wallace, he is the only person to be inducted into the Hall of Fame to date, very inspirational.
Big Ben participated in the NBA draft in 1996, in the era of high interior line, he was 2 meters 06 tall as a center did not have a height advantage, and did not have the ability to attack autonomously, the offensive technology was very rough, so he failed, fortunately, the Bullets (now the Wizards) signed him, he showed excellent rebounding protection and frame protection ability in limited playing time, gradually won the trust of the coach, and slowly gained a foothold in the NBA.
After playing for the Wizards for 3 years, Big Ben briefly played for the Magic for a season before coming to play for the Detroit Pistons, where he made a big splash. In the Pistons' 6 seasons, he grabbed more than 11 rebounds per season, the highest season averaged 15.4 rebounds per game, averaged 4 frontcourt rebounds per game, and averaged more than 2 blocks per game in each season, and averaged more than 3 blocks per game for 3 consecutive seasons.
With excellent rebounding and defensive ability, Big Ben won 2 rebounding kings, 1 block king, 4 best defensive player awards, 5 times selected for the best defensive team first team, 1 best defensive team second team, 3 times selected for the best team second team, 2 times the best team second team, and four times selected as an All-Star.
Big Ben won 4 best defensive player awards, and Uncle Mu tied for the first place in NBA history, that is to say, his defensive ability is one of the best in NBA history, as a top defensive center, meet Yao Ming, a center with a huge height advantage and excellent shooting ability, can big instinct defend? Comparing the 10 hand-to-hand figures, the answer is obvious.
Yao Ming and Daben have not played many times, a total of 10 games, Yao Ming averaged 32.1 minutes per game, contributed 16.2 points, 9.3 rebounds, 1.2 assists, 0.3 steals and 1.3 blocks, averaged 11.8 shots per game, hit 5.7 hits per game, shot 48.3% from the field, and led the team to a record of 4 wins and 6 losses.
Big Ben averaged 34.3 minutes per game, averaged 5.5 points, 10.2 rebounds, 1.8 assists, 1.9 steals and 2 blocks, averaged 5.6 shots per game, averaged 2.3 hits per game, and shot 41.1% from the field, leading the team to a record of 6 wins and 4 losses.
Yao Ming is a center who is stronger than the defender, and Daben is a center who is far more defensive than the attacker, if you compare the data of the two, Yao Ming is still better, but the focus of the two of them is mainly in the effect of Daben restricting Yao Ming?
Yao Ming's career average contributed 19 points, 9.2 rebounds, 1.6 assists, 0.39 steals, 1.89 blocks, shooting 52.4%, with Yao Ming's career average data, compared with his average per game data at the time of his position, it can be found that he in addition to the average rebounds per game 0.1 higher than his career, the rest of the data are lower than his career, and the shooting rate is also lower, which is enough to reflect Daben's defensive ability.
In addition, you can also use Howard as a reference, Yao Ming averaged 23.6 points, 10.4 rebounds, 1.2 assists and 2.1 blocks per game when he was against Howard, shooting 56.1% from the field, and his average data per game against Howard was higher than the average data of his career, so Howard could not prevent Yao Ming, to know that Howard had won the best defensive player 3 times, second only to Big Ben and Uncle Mu, ranking second in NBA history.
Yao Ming blew up Howard, but was limited by Big Ben to below 50%, although the 48.3% shooting rate is not low, but compared with the 56.1% shooting rate when playing against Howard, and the career shooting rate of 52.4% is still low, indicating that although Big Ben failed to completely defend Yao Ming, the restriction effect is quite good.
It is also a top defender who has won the Best Defensive Player Award many times, and they do not have a height advantage when they are in position with Yao Ming, why can't Howard defend Yao Ming, but Big Ben has achieved good results? The biggest difference is in terms of strength, followed by movement speed.
Yao Ming is 2 meters 26 tall, weighs 141 kg, he is very good at fighting after gaining weight, Howard can not prevent his back beating, often by Yao Ming sit in, and although Big Ben is shorter and lighter, but the strength is very amazing, his bench press ranks first in NBA history, he has hat over the giant O'Neal, it can be seen that his strength is very amazing, which gives him more advantages than Howard when defending Yao Ming.
Although Daben has also been pushed in by Yao Ming, but his strong strength has caused Yao Ming a huge consumption, and he has been pushing and interfering with yao Ming's center of gravity is unstable, shooting in the case of large physical exertion and unstable center of gravity, the shooting rate is naturally not too high, which is the main reason for the decline in Yao Ming's scoring efficiency.
In addition, Big Ben is shorter than Howard, better coordination, faster movement speed, he will cut off the contact between his teammates and Yao Ming when defending Yao Ming, let Yao Ming take less of the ball, use the speed advantage to steal or interfere with Yao Ming's receiving of the ball when the ball is passed, after Yao Ming receives the ball, he will also continue to interfere, which makes Yao Ming mistake after another, and when he is in alignment with Daben, Yao Ming appears 3.7 times per game, which is a very high number of mistakes.
In fact, Yao Ming's performance against Daben has been calculated, Duncan, Garnett these top inside line against Daben when the shooting rate is lower than Yao Ming, their shooting rate is below 48%, more can explain The defensive strength of Daben, do not question Daben with an average of 5.7 points per game, he has done the defense to the extreme, his number of blocks is greater than the number of fouls, the number of steals is greater than the number of mistakes, this is the performance of the top defensive players, he deserves to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.