As we all know, the Finals G1 is over, and the Suns beat the Bucks 118-105 at home to lead 1-0. Paul, Booker and Ayton played well in this game, and the trio combined to cut 81 points, 25 rebounds and 15 assists, of which Paul was the most amazing, he scored 16 points in the third quarter, and delivered 32 points, 4 rebounds and 9 assists.
Of course, winning is not the credit of two or three people, taking this game, the Suns' role players also played quite well, such as Cameron Johnson, the whole game, Johnson played a total of 20 minutes off the bench, shooting 3 of 6, 4 of 3 three-pointers, 10 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists.
The data is very inconspicuous, as his position on the Suns is rarely noticed, but what you need to know is that this Cameron Johnson is not simple at all.
Johnson has been an important member of the Suns bench in the playoffs this year, averaging 8.2 points per game, shooting 50.6%/45.5%/88.9% of the three shots, and shooting an incredible 70.5% true shooting rate, for comparison, during the regular season, Johnson's true shooting rate was only 56.3%.
Johnson's possession, dribbling, and personal offense are not good, but his three points are very sharp, one statistic is that so far in this year's playoffs, his bottom corner three-pointers totaled 30 shots of 17, shooting as high as 57%, facing the Bucks' G1, Johnson first shot a three-point shot in the bottom corner, and the Suns opened the situation.
But it's not just the above that we admire.
In addition to fulfilling his dream of winning the championship, Johnson has one more very important thing to complete during this year's finals - a graduate thesis.
This also begins with Johnson's college days, from the freshman year to the third year, Johnson has been studying at the University of Pittsburgh, the school's popularity and basketball level is not enough to support him to impact the NBA, but according to the NCAA regulations, if Johnson transfers, he will not be able to participate in the game for a year.
At this time, Johnson discovered that there was also another rule in the NCAA's transfer rules: if you go to graduate school, you don't have to become a Sequoia player. So Johnson began to be angry and strong, and finally succeeded in the graduate school at the end of his junior year, and joined North Carolina without sitting on the bench for a year.
So in the North Carolina in 2019, Cameron Johnson is not a senior player, but a research player, this year is his third graduate season, he should complete his master's thesis, but because the sun all the way to the finals, so his thesis was shelved, it is understood that Johnson's mother, grandmother is very dissatisfied with this, hope that he will complete the thesis before the end of the season.
At this point, I suddenly thought of the scene where Cameron Johnson first entered the league.
At the 2019 draft, Cameron Johnson was selected by the Suns with 11 picks in the first round (the draft pick came from the Timberwolves), and at the time, this result can be said to be very surprising, because Johnson's predicted pick was the second round of 37 picks, and North Carolina teammate Kobe White was directly shocked when he learned that Johnson was selected with the 11th pick in the first round: "What do you say? Cameron was selected with the 11th pick? Wow, wow, wow, that's crazy. ”
Not to hide from you, this is our first impression of Cameron Johnson, and even ridiculed this decision of the Suns management - at the time, the choice of the Suns management was really crazy, after all, Cameron Johnson is 23 years old, as old as Booker in 2015, and he also got the nickname of "North Carolina Huang Zhong" for a simple reason, old and accurate.
Looking at it now, the Suns did miss players such as Hiro and PJ Washington, but Cameron Johnson is not bad at all, at least a very qualified shooter, and there is still hope to help the team win the first championship in team history, hoping that Johnson will continue to shine in the bottom corner, and also hope that he will complete his master's thesis as soon as possible.