The 2021-2022 NBA regular season is in full swing, with teams competing. The Houston Rockets in the West won just one game in five games, and the team's point guard, John Wall, continued to miss out with injuries. It should be said that after the "Yao Mai combination" and the post-Harden era, as well as after Westbrook came and went, this Rocket team has been completely reduced to a fish belly team, the only star in the squad is only John Wall, and Wall's continuous injuries in the past three seasons have led to him disappearing more and more in the eyes of fans, the sense of existence is extremely low, and even reduced to the team cancer, garbage contract, we seem to slowly forget this once 2010 draft leader.
Today we're going to talk about "Wall" John Wall, once the premier All-Star point guard.
"Good point guards are like stars, I keep practicing hard, I know it's obviously not easy to match them, but my ambition is to become the first point guard in history." – John Wall
At first, many people still had the impression of Wall in the new season, thinking that he was just a poor version of Westbrook, just a player with excellent physical fitness, but rough technology, rushing up, but frequent mistakes, and few people found the Wizards team that was getting stronger and stronger on this team. Wall is steadily moving forward and has the standard equipment for top point guards averaging 20+10 per game.
In his freshman year, Wall averaged 17.2 points and 7.3 assists per game, while leading the University of Kentucky to a terrifying record of 15 wins. In ESPN's draft intent test that year, 13 of the 14 2010 lotto teams did not hesitate to choose John Wall with the hypothetical champion, which shows that Wall, who has not yet landed in the NBA, has conquered the league with talent and performance.
Sure enough, in the 2010 draft, the Wizards, who held the lottery, almost without hesitation, picked Wall with the first pick, and wall averaged 16.4 points and 8.3 assists per game in the rookie season, which is enough to prove his worth.
Wall missed 46 of them in the first three seasons, and the team's record continued to be sluggish, with only 72 wins and 158 losses. As a point guard, his jump shot level is far below the passing line, and his breakthrough ability is strong, but his shooting ability is very bad, which also greatly weakens Wall's threat in the block, and the opponent's inner line will not hesitate to stick to the box, waiting for Wall to enter the encirclement.
Wall missed half a season due to injury in the 2013 season, and he also fell out of ESPN's list of 25 outstanding rising stars under the age of 25. Despite this, that summer, the team was determined to sign a 5-year 80 million maximum salary, although the major media at the time were not optimistic.
In the 2014-2015 season, Wall's average of points per game dropped to only 17.3 points per game, but his shooting percentage reached a career-high of 44.5%, and not only that, but the average of 10 assists per game showed Wall's excellent passing skills. In the 2015 playoffs, Wall used his passing ability to the extreme, averaging 12.6 times per game, a full 4 times higher than the second-place Paul, and the terrible thing is that he still plays with a fractured bone injury!
In the 2016-2017 season, John Wall played a career-high season, averaging 23.1 points, 10.7 assists and 4.2 rebounds per game in the regular season, scoring and assisting a career high, shooting a career-high 45.1%, and Wall also got the attention he deserved.
All along, like the presence of the Washington Wizards tragedy, we've always forgotten how pure and sassy Wall is as a traditional point guard, for his athleticism and defensive prowess, and his near-innate big-picture and passing skills.
But the world is unpredictable, and the peak to the bottom may only be a blink of an eye.
After nine seasons with the Capitals, Wall moved away to the Houston Rockets in the West in a trade with Russell Wisbrook. After a season and a half of injury, Wall finally ushered in a comeback in the 2020-2021 season, the attendance rate of that season was still not high, 40 games were starters, the average of 20.6 points, 6.9 assists and 3.2 rebounds per game was still relatively comprehensive at first glance, but the poor shooting choice and shooting rate completely made Houston fans lose their expectations for him, the average shooting rate of 40.4% per game hit a career low, and the three-point shooting rate that has been criticized by people continues to be only 30%, 31.7%. The team's poor performance also makes people feel that Wall has been unable to lead the team to win, and the most beautiful data is just an empty cut, and the attributes of the glass people have become more and more obvious over the years, it is no wonder that such a team performance is completely incompatible with the annual salary of more than 44 million.
I don't know when Wall will be able to come back this season, how he will be in a state after his comeback, whether he still has a place in the team, after all, the age is already thirty and one, is it the fall of this superstar, since then everyone has disappeared, or broken the cocoon, ushered in the second spring of his career, maybe only time can tell us, we hope to see a healthy stadium elf, hope for less injuries.
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