Wearing the Nets' No. 12 jersey, Joe Harris, who was a three-pointer in the All-Star three-point game, from the Curry brothers who bet on family tickets, to Danny Green who played the Northlands, from Damian - No Whistle Uncomfortable Ski Lillard to Dirk - the highest shot arc in the whole game - Nowitzki, Harris won the three-point championship with a total of 51 points in two rounds. The Harden-like-bearded Nets forward, who resembles Valanciunas, once again justified his league's second-highest three-point shooting percentage.
Of course, Bertans, who was number one in the league in three-point shooting, was rejected by the league.
However, the harmony factor is a small disharmony factor, and Harris's 47.1% three-point shooting rate is still an unattainable height. Combined with his 5.2 three-point shots per game, Harris' three-point shooting level has reached the level of quality and efficiency. We all remember Korver in 14-15, who shot a terrifying 49.2 percent three-point shooting percentage that season, and Joe Harris was very close to that level.
Why did I mention Korwall's name? Because in my impression of watching the ball, in addition to Curry 14 years later, Korver in the 14-15 season is the second player to become the core of the team's attack based on his ability to shoot without the ball.
And now, Joe Harris has made it into that ranks.
Don't rush to spray, I don't mean "Curry is the system Redick/Korver/Harris". What I want to analyze is how much a shooter who improves his three-point shooting ability to the top of the league can bring to his team.
Needless to say, harris shoots 3.9 times per game and scores a staggering 1.33 points per game, surpassing 98% of the league's players by "shooting from cover" alone, and only a few people can surpass Harris by "shooting with cover", and considering his number of shots, the whole league can say that no one is right.
What's even better is that Harris doesn't dribble the ball like some top shooters dribble himself down, and Harris dribbles the ball with a 44% dry-pull shooting rate. This gives him more room to operate, such as... Pull dry after blocking and dismantling.
Another example is the clever pass after the catch is covered.
Harris's three-pointer was too threatening, and Harris, who received the ball outside the three-point line, was a nightmare for the opponent, so when Harris just received the ball, the Raptors quickly sent a three-man to try to strangle Harris at the top of the arc. But then Jarrett Allen under the basket is left unattended.
So Harris came with a beautiful pass without looking at people, and successfully assisted Aaron's dunk in the empty basket.
Looking at this round again, Harris ran from one side of the court to the other, hit two no-ball cover in the middle, took away at least two defenders, mixed the Raptors' steel defense into a pot of porridge, successfully let the teammates at the far end get a super large vacancy with a five-meter radius, and also used Allen's cover to successfully shoot three-pointers, making the Raptors' three-man defense useless. This feeling of powerlessness to make up for it in the end or being thrown into three points by the opponent is enough to make the opponent's mentality unbalanced.
It was again to cut out and catch the ball to attract the defense, but this round Harris directly chose to break through with the ball and successfully scored 2+1 under the opponent's heavy attack. In the three-overtime battle between the Nets and the Cavaliers, Harris shot 9-of-12 and 4-of-5 from three-point range to score 25 points, including a three-pointer for the breakthrough at the crucial moment.
So you see, in position warfare, blocking cover is the most basic move, but a top three-pointer like Harris only needs an ordinary no-ball cover (the quality of this cover does not need to be top),can create a great offensive threat - for them, a fleeting shot space, is a three-point opportunity, a three-point shot, is a 47% chance to score, what a terrible thing.
So they will stop at nothing to reinforce, pinch, and fight, but in this way, the defense line is bound to have loopholes, and when they encounter opponents who can pass the ball a little, that is, the chaos of the entire defense line.
Isn't it very familiar? That's how Curry leads the Warriors.
So again, that's how Joe Harris drives the Nets offense.
Joe Harris certainly doesn't have Curry's cross-generational three-point level of possession, nor does curry's top-notch breakthrough, dribbling and passing skills. He just honed the technique of "catching the ball around the cover" to the top of the league.
The Nets can then build a whole set of offensive tactics with this small piece of nitpicking blade. Harris's running, blocking, and cover have become an important weapon for the Nets to disrupt opponents' defenses — like a knife cutting through butter. That's what Korver did in the 14-15 season and Redick in the past two years.
After all, Curry is a superstar ahead of the times, but Joe Harris, Korver, Redick, this group of "role players" who have no star flavor at all and just polish the individual technology to the extreme, can also become the "core of the team" in the practical sense.
Such players are often more worthy of our admiration and reference.