Under the umbrella of DC Comics, there is a famous film and television drama "The Flash", the protagonist Barry Allen obtained the super power of extremely fast movement after being struck by lightning in a particle accelerator explosion accident, and with the assistance of S.T.A.R. Laboratory, he became a superhero Lightning Man to fight crime; and on the big stage of the NBA League, there is no shortage of "Flash" players with fast movement speed and outstanding offensive ability with the ball, and in recent years, the most well-known to fans and friends is The Flash Man Dwyane Wade. But turning the page of NBA history, it is revealed that there is also a player related to the Flash, he is the "Brazilian Lightning" Leandro Barbosa.
"Brazilian Lightning" Leandro Barbosa
Leondro Barbosa was born on November 28, 1982 in São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil. He is 1.91 m/6 ft 3 in tall and weighs 88 kg/194 lbs. and plays as a defender nicknamed "Brazilian Lightning". In 1999, Leondro Barbosa began his basketball career with the palmeiras club basketball team in Brazil, and after four years, he was selected by the Spurs in 2003 with the 28th place in the first round to enter the NBA, and played for the Suns, Raptors, Pacers, Celtics and Warriors in a 14-season career. In 2006-07, Ginobili was elected the best sixth man of the season; in 2014-15, he won the NBA championship with the Warriors that season. In November 2017, Leondro Barbosa chose to return to play in the Brazilian Basketball League, where he still plays for Minas Des Des Des périques de Brasil.
This article will review The performance, shooting style and offensive and defensive efficiency of Leondro Barbosa in the regular season and playoffs of his career in the past, and analyze the most precious intrinsic value of "Brazilian Lightning" Leandro Barbosa.
Leandro Barbosa is fast and explosive, creative under the basket, able to end the game with both hands, trick opponents, handle physical contact and so on. --- Warriors player Stephen Curry
Ledro Barbosa NBA Career Regular Season Offensive Statistics (Xiao Fat Kan Ball System)
Offensive performance in the regular season and playoffs
In the 2003 draft, the Spurs selected Leandro Barbosa in the first round with 28th place, but was subsequently traded to the Phoenix Suns, who also started his NBA journey in Phoenix.
During the Suns period (03-04 season to 09-10 season), due to Theodro Barbosa's excellent performance in the Brazilian basketball world before entering the NBA League, the Suns have some expectations for him, and in the first year of the rookie season, the team has continuously given Barbosa the opportunity to show his ability, hoping to see more shining points in him. He played in 70 regular season games, starting 46 games, averaging 21.4 minutes per game, contributing 7.9 points, 1.8 rebounds and 2.4 assists, shooting 44.7% from the field and 55.3% from the field. In the 04-05 season, the Suns welcomed Nash, the son of the wind, as the helmsman of the team's "7-second bombardment tactic", and the second-year Barbosa became the team's rotation lineup, playing 63 games for the team in the regular season, playing 57 games off the bench, averaging 17.3 minutes per game, contributing 7 points, 2.1 rebounds and 2 assists. He played in 12 games in the playoffs, averaging 9.7 minutes per game and only 2.5 points, 1.4 rebounds and 1 assist. Such bland data made many people question Barbosa at the time, believing that its development prospects were quite limited, it was difficult to establish a long-term foothold in the NBA, and it laid the groundwork for him to become the sixth person in the team.
Leandro Barbosa broke through to a layup
But how can the Brazilian lightning concede defeat? In the summer offseason, he trained hard, tried hard to specialize in his strengths, improved his weak links, and heaven never treated anyone who worked hard, but sometimes it didn't come so early. Finally, at the beginning of the 05-06 season, Barbosa can be said to have ushered in the peak moment of his career in the NBA.
Leandro Barbosa NBA Career Playoff Offensive Statistics (Xiao Fat Kan Ball System)
In the 2005-06 season, Barbosa still played as a substitute for most of the time, averaging 27.9 minutes per game, contributing 13.1 points, 2.6 rebounds and 2.8 assists, which is a double comparison with the previous two seasons. Some of the playoff performances: the first round against the Lakers g7, Barbosa played 31 minutes, scored 26 points and 2 assists, shooting as high as 83.3%, the whole game shot 12 hits 10 times, and finally helped the Suns beat the Lakers 121-90 in the 7th game; the Western Conference Finals against the Mavericks g4, Barbosa played 34 minutes, scored 24 points and 2 assists, shooting 76.9%, and 10 shots in the whole game. In the end, in the Battle of Tennozan in the Western Conference Finals, the Suns lost to the Mavericks and returned home.
Leandro Barbosa's on-court performance against the Spurs
The 06-07 season was the highlight of Barbosa's time with the Suns. Played in 80 games for the team in the regular season, appeared on the bench in 62 games, averaged 32.7 minutes per game, contributed 18.1 points and 4 assists, shot 47.6% from the field, and shot 59.5% from the real shooting rate. With his outstanding performance, Ginobili, who overpowered the Spurs, won the title of the best sixth man in the season. At the same time, it also made Barbosa the fourth player in Suns history to receive the award. Some of the playoff performances: the first round collided with the old rival Lakers g2 again, Barbosa played 26 minutes, scored 26 points and 3 assists, shot 11 times in 18 shots in the whole game, shooting 61.1%; Western Conference semifinals against spurs g1, Barbosa played 35 minutes, scored 18 points and 3 assists, shooting 41.2%. Unfortunately, the Suns were unable to cross the Spurs' defensive barrier and eventually lost the series 2-4.
Leondro Barbosa during the Raptors era
In the next 3 seasons (07-08 season to 09-10 season), the two powerful ball teams in the league, the Lakers and Celtics, basically occupied the stage of the Finals, and the Phoenix Suns could not reach the mark of the West, as if they were stuck in a swamp, and it was difficult to move forward. The team also gradually lost patience and made a big deal. In July 2010, Leondro Barbosa was traded to the Toronto Raptors, king of the North.
In the 10-11 season, Barbosa joined the Raptors, played in 58 games as a substitute, averaged 24.1 minutes per game, contributed 13.3 points, 2.1 assists, and shot 45.5%, but the Raptors were a fishy team that season, with a regular season record of 22 wins and 60 losses, and was turned away early by the playoffs. The following year, the Raptors traded Barbosa to the Indiana Pacers in the middle of the season, where they played just 22 games, averaging 19.8 minutes per game and contributing 8.9 points and 1.5 assists. After the season ended, Barbosa joined the Celtics as a free agent, but fate seemed to be a big joke with him, and in a game between the Celtics and Bobcats (now renamed charlotte Hornets), Leandro Barbosa suffered a left knee injury that cost him the season. In the 12-13 season, Barbosa played in 41 games for the Celtics, averaging 12.5 minutes per game, with 5.2 points and 1.4 assists.
Leandro Barbosa followed the Warriors to the championship trophy
During the Warriors period (14-15 to 15-16), after several teams, Barbosa joined the Golden State Warriors in the 14-15 season, bringing together splash brothers Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, defensive masters Dream Green, Andre iguodala and CST machine Sean Livingston, etc., to emerge in the league and launch a strong impact on the championship. Barbosa played 65 off the bench that season, averaging 14.9 minutes per game, contributing 7.1 points and 1.5 assists to shoot 47.4 percent; playoffs, playing in 21 games, averaging 10.9 minutes per game, contributing 5 points, 0.9 assists, shooting 44.3 percent from the field; some playoff offensive performance: Second round against the Grizzlies, Barbosa played 14 minutes, scored 14 points and 1 assist, shooting 55.6% from the field. In the Finals, against the Cavaliers, led by the big three of LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love, Barbosa played 17 minutes off the bench, contributed 13 points and 2 rebounds, hit 4 of 5 shots, and shot 80% from the field. At the end of the season, the Warriors beat the Cavaliers 4-2 in the series to win the championship trophy of the season, which was also the only championship ring in Andro Barbosa's NBA career. In the regular season of the 15-16 season, the Warriors recorded the best record in history of 73 wins and 9 losses, and Barbosa played 68 games for the Warriors, averaging 16 minutes per game, contributing 6.4 points and 1.2 assists, shooting 46.2% from the field. In the playoffs, he played in 23 games, averaged 11.1 minutes per game, contributed 5.6 points, 0.7 assists, and shot 58%; after entering the playoffs, the Warriors went all the way to the stage of the Finals with the Cavaliers again. In the Finals g1, Barbosa played 11 minutes off the bench, contributed 11 points and 1 rebound, shot all 5 shots, and shot 100% of the shots (the highest shooting rate in the career playoffs); in the Finals g2, Barbosa played 18 minutes off the bench, contributed 10 points and 1 assist, 7 shots and 5 shots, shooting 71.4%. Unfortunately, the Warriors, sitting on a 2-0 lead, were eventually won by the Cavaliers for four consecutive innings, losing the series 2-4 and losing the championship trophy. After the season, Barbosa returned to Phoenix Sun City, but was cut by the Suns after only one season. In the end, Barbosa had no choice but to return to Brazilian basketball and has been playing ever since.
Leandro Barbosa shot
Barbosa's regular-season offensive stats: 850 games, 21.6 minutes on the field, 10.6 points and 2.1 assists per game, 45.9 percent from the field, 33.1 percent from three-point range and 56 percent from the field.
Barbosa's playoff offensive stats: 119 games, 18.4 minutes on the field, 8 points and 1.4 assists per game, shooting 43.7 percent from the field, 33.2 percent from three-point range, and 52.6 percent from the field.
Leandro Barbosa NBA career regular season shooting percentage (Xiao Fat Kan ball system)
Analyze the regular season and playoff shooting methods
Barbosa's main offensive method is that the team quickly kills the ball to the bottom of the basket to score when the attack and defense transitions, and when it falls into the position war, it still breaks through the basket at its own speed to score the basket. Overall, there is no obvious shortcoming in his scoring methods, both to break through the layup score, but also to score in the free throw line attachment, and the projection ability of one hand outside the three-point line, which can be said to be a balanced development.
Regular season shots: 34.6% from the basket, 34.5% from three-pointers, and 30.9% from the middle.
Playoff shots: 37 percent under the basket, 32 percent for three-pointers, and 31 percent for mid-range shots.
Leandro Barbosa NBA career playoff shooting percentage (Xiao Fat Kan system)
Offensive end summary
Leandro Barbosa has a very good speed, flexible pace with excellent speed, can allow him to quickly hold the ball to break through to the bottom of the basket to score in the offensive and defensive conversion, but also in the position war, through the active no-ball empty cut to score, when the ball is passed to his hand, he can quickly break through the defense with the ball, reach the bottom of the basket, and can reasonably choose the left and right hand to score the basket. The projection ability of the outside three points is also good, and in general, he is a "bench bandit" who mainly breaks through the layup score, the medium and long range projection ability is good, and the scoring means are balanced. The only thing missing is that he has a habit of sticking balls and is not good at organizing, as evidenced by his career average of 2.1 assists per game in the regular season and 1.4 assists in the playoffs.
Leandro Barbosa NBA career regular season defensive stats (Xiao Fat Kan system)
Barbosa, who weighs 1.91 meters and weighs 88 kilograms, is obviously slightly thin in terms of physical fitness from the defensive end, which has created a weak side of his attack and defense. In one-on-one defense, this weakness is exposed once it faces a player with a large and powerful body.
Ledro Barbosa NBA Career Playoff Defensive Statistics (Xiao Fat Kan Ball System)
During his rookie season with the Suns, Barbosa averaged 1.8 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game (a career regular season high) and 0.1 blocks. The 2006-07 Suns averaged 2.7 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game (second-highest in the career regular season) and 0.2 blocks (career highest in the regular season); During the Warriors period, Barbosa averaged 1.5 rebounds, 0.6 steals and 0.1 blocks per game in the regular season.
Barbosa averaged a playoff rebound of 4 per game (07-08), 1.1 steals per game (06-07) and 0.2 blocks per game (06-07).
Defensive end performance summary
The thin body of Barbosa, led to his performance on the defensive end is not satisfactory, fortunately the NBA league at that time was the era of center-center based on the inner line, the guard Barbosa fortunately did not suffer too much loss in the outside defense, if put into the current era of small balls based on outside projection, then the defensive pressure Barbosa faced will definitely be greater, the situation is more severe, and it is easier to become one of the weaknesses of the team's defensive system.
Leandro Barbosa NBA Career Regular Season Offensive and Defensive Efficiency Statistics (Xiao Fat Kan Ball System)
Barbosa's career regular season offensive efficiency is 108, defensive efficiency is 109, and the plus-minus difference is -1. 117 offensive efficiency in the 08-09 season (best in the regular season of his career), his defensive efficiency was 112 in that season, with a plus-minus difference of +5. 14-15 defensive efficiency 104 (career best in the regular season), offensive efficiency 111 this season, plus-minus +7!
Leandro Barbosa NBA Career Playoff Offensive and Defensive Efficiency Statistics (Xiao Fat Kan Ball System)
Barbosa's career playoffs have an offensive efficiency of 103 and a defensive efficiency of 111, with a plus-minus difference of -8. 15-16 offensive efficiency 125 (career playoff best), he had a defensive efficiency of 109 in that season, with a plus-minus difference of +16. 14-15 defensive efficiency 104 (career best in the regular season), 106 offensive efficiency, plus-minus +2!
In summary, Leondro Barbosa can participate in the fast attack of the team's offensive and defensive conversion with the speed of movement that cannot be concealed by the thunderous momentum, and through his ability to break through with the ball, he can efficiently and stably score the final score. The super-strong layup means of left and right hand give him more selectivity when facing defense, and in that era of centering, where the inside line is king, it is not easy for a defender to break through to the bottom of the basket with the ball, but this Brazilian lightning has staged countless wonderful layup moments. Luckily, he later joined the Warriors and won a championship ring in the 14-15 season, giving his NBA journey the only moment of supreme honor. Leandro Barbosa, a Brazilian lightning bolt from a foreign country, the indispensable "bench bandit" of the team, even if he is no longer fighting in the NBA, but he deserves to be remembered and praised by everyone.