Character | Ricky Matador Rubio (Part 1): Handsome face, gorgeous passing, you can get a lot of happiness from Rubio's basketball, but you can't let the matador take control of his own destiny, only hold the handle of the sword and continue to the next game

In February, the Minnesota Timberwolves won seven of their 11 games and briefly returned to the battle for a playoff spot in the West. In those 11 games, they were ninth in the league in offensive efficiency and fifth in defensive efficiency, averaging 7.5 points per game. In this series of fierce battles, the most surprising thing is not an andrew Wiggins, who has contributed to the kill, nor the karl-anthony towns, who has continued to double-double, but Rubio, who has suppressed a star point guard in succession. However, after playing what was arguably the best performance of his career, Rubio still failed to hold out until the day when he assisted the "Wolves double" to return to the playoffs.

From the rookie season, almost every June, there will be news rumors that Rubio is on the shelves, which is not a new thing, but it is only after boiling fresh meat from a young age that the team's veteran really makes the trip, because the Spanish matador really has a skill that cannot be abandoned. Since the "Golden Boy" and the "Spanish Magician" parachuted into the NBA, Rubio's gorgeous pass has attracted the attention of a large number of fans, and even the youngest genius will have an old day; but the magic in Rubio's hands is eternal.

Many of the league's passing masters, Rubio's skills are most like the swords in the hands of Spanish bullfighters, the sword is hidden and fast, so that the defenders are invincible, but the route of the sword is quite clear. Rubio's best passing is the back pass to the weak side after being clipped and the ground pass that catches the gap in the crowd, especially the ground pass fed to the inside line.

The most intuitive example is derrick Williams, who has been identified as the head of the parallel goods list, who has a good bouncing ability, but is only a reckless man, but with the unremitting assistance of Rubio, he has also brushed up the data that can be seen. But as soon as dw left the Timberwolves, he had a prototype that deteriorated and was now only able to hang out in the league on a basic salary contract.

Rubio's sword makes it easy for his teammates to score points and smooth the team's offense, which is why he has been the highest plus-minus in Wolves' squad for many years. However, Rubio's sword can stab the ferocious bull, but it has a natural weakness in the final blow, he can make the bull bleed continuously, and make the opponent's defense line full of holes, but he can't stab the heart.

Projection is always a topic that Rubio can't avoid, the biggest blind spot for this matador with magnificent skills. In the first five seasons of his career, the shooting rate was all less than 40%, and in 3 seasons, the shooting rate was only a pitiful 36%, throughout the career, the mid-range shooting rate was 31.3%, the long-distance two-point shooting rate was 37.1%, even in the face of some undefended layup opportunities, Rubio staged the "five big" moments are not few. In short, he has countless good, but in this era of emphasizing that the point guard needs to be all-powerful and offensive, he always seems to be out of step with this era without personal offensive ability.

In fact, Rubio is not without progress. In the case of many objective reasons to delay the progress of growth, he still stubbornly completed the progress in shooting. In the past season, Ruby's mid-range jump shooting rate after the Olympic ball has been covered has reached more than 40%, which is already a considerable number. Even in february, when Wolves played best, Wolves did rely on Rubio's mid-range shots to lock up two games, and the Matador wanted to tell the world that he could stab the Bulls in the heart.

However, the speed and magnitude of his progress is ultimately unable to keep up with the speed of the trend. When Rubio succeeded in forcing his craft a little closer to this era, he looked back and found that the current league 'not throwing three points' had become the new original sin.

Last season, there were often scenes like this - Wiggins broke through with the ball, two or three defensive teammates hanging on his body, he threw the ball to the inside line, rubio who received the ball was still unable to hit the ball after adjusting the big gap outside the three-point line, and the young Wiggins naturally did not say anything, but Tom thibodeau was not willing to see this scene after all.