People are still addicted to food, and it is Christapus-Porzingis.
Since his comeback in 2019, Porzingis has been clamoring all day for the ball, for status, he wants more ball-holding offense, rather than playing a fixed-point shooter, although in the past 2 seasons, Porzingis can average 20+ per game, but in his heart, his own score should be higher, but unfortunately, former coach Carlisle is more stubborn than him, resolutely do not design tactics for Porzingis, this year's playoffs, the contradictions between the two sides completely broke out.
Due to the lack of tactical arrangements and his poor hand, Porzingis played the worst performance of his career so far, averaging only 13.1 points, 5.4 rebounds per game, and only 30% shooting rate from three points.
With the team reversed in the first round, Porzingis could no longer suppress the anger in his heart, in order to appease the latter, the boss Cuban had to replace Carlisle and replace him with Kidd, Cuban's love for Porzingis is well known, even if the latter suffered a torn ligament, but Cuban still sent a $158 million salary.
To be honest, Carlisle is not a problem, in my opinion, he saved Porzingis's career, Carlisle is not only a master tactician, but also very good at tapping the potential of players, he is very aware of Porzingis's ability, but the latter fans of confidence, early in his career, his style of play is indeed exciting, but not efficient, holding the ball to shoot, low singles, counterattack breakthrough, every game is eager to use eighteen martial arts, but in fact? Porzingis' really threatening way of scoring is still fixed-point shots and empty cuts.
So, in the past 2 seasons, Carlisle only let him do these two things, although the average score per game is slightly lower than the peak, but the efficiency has a qualitative leap, last season, Porzingis's real shooting rate can reach 58.2%, compared to 3 years ago, a full increase of 4.3 percentage points, but in the league, he can still only be regarded as a second-rate scorer, receiving the ball and shooting 1.06 points per round, only 47% of the players in the league, but that is, Porzingis is still confused and confident, thinking that he can create a kill at a low level, It's just a chance, but is that really the case?
Although the sample is not much, but it can still reflect some problems, in the low position, he can still shoot 1-2 times per game, but the efficiency is really poor, the shooting rate is only about 30%, is one of the worst 10% of the league, the fixed point shooting has not yet reached the league average level, and want to use 30% efficiency to single out the opponent? It's hard to imagine that if Carlisle had let Porzingis play at will, he would have delivered a list of what, referring to this season, is estimated to be worse than that.
Compared to Carlisle, Kidd is much more sophisticated, from the preseason, he let Porzingis come at his own pace, give you the ball, but also give you tactics, but the result?
4-of-13 shooting in the first game, with 11 points and five rebounds;
On 7-of-20 shooting, he scored 18 points and 10 rebounds;
2-of-10 shooting in Game 3, with 9 points and 3 rebounds;
Averaging only 12.7 points, 6.0 rebounds, shooting 30.2%, shooting 23.5% from three-point range, the data shows that when he was on the floor, the Lone Ranger lost 30 points, when he was not on the floor, the team net 27 points, that is, Porzingis's current style of play, does not help the team, but will drag down the whole team, looking at these shocking data, I don't know if Porzingis will understand Carlisle's good intentions, the latter let him stay away from the basket and play the offensive endpoint, Not only for the team, but also deliberately protecting his fragile body.
Now you are suitable to be an assistant and assist Doncic in a down-to-earth manner, after all, this season's lone ranger is still very promising to impact the championship.