RNP Chapter 147
Chapter 147
In fact, what Ginobili said is not without reason. Now these so-called "ball-holding cores" in the league, although they have good-looking assist statistics, but most of the time because they will completely control the ball in their own hands, they are the actual distributors of the team's ball, almost every round to ensure that they hold the ball to decide whether to pass or attack by themselves, plus the court space of modern basketball is much larger than before, it is not surprising that the assist statistics of these top ball-handlers are good-looking.
Most of them are just the initiators of the offense, and when they break through the pick-and-roll, they can forcibly tear apart the opponent's defense through their own personal ability, so as to bring better three-point shooting opportunities to their teammates on the outside, but in fact, the real organizational ability is not necessarily high.
Although Chang Tiancheng often has a lot of ball in the Spurs this season, it comes down to the fact that the Spurs' starting lineup really doesn't have a particularly stable ball point except for Chang Tiancheng, but the biggest difference between Chang Tiancheng and other ball-holding cores in the league is here. When he takes the ball to half-time, he rarely chooses to attack on his own, and more often goes to his teammates as soon as possible. Especially this season, after the Spurs got Wembanyama, Chang Tiancheng will regard Wembanyama as his first choice almost every round, and he often directs his teammates' runs when he has no ball in his hand, and by the way, he stands at the top of the arc as a passing center to help his teammates improve the efficiency of sharing the ball.
It is precisely because of these qualities that Wembanyama can concentrate on what he is good at, that is, attacking and defending with the ball in the half. At this point, Wembanyama's overall style of play is more like last season's MVP Embiid.
On the offensive end, they are more inclined to shoot on the outside, and there are not many cases where they choose to squeeze into the box to eat alone, but Wembanyama's current offensive efficiency can wrestle with Embiid, but the offensive output is far less than Embiid. The most direct reflection of the difference in offensive ability between the two is the scoring data of the two this season. Wembanyama has played a few good games, but at this point in the season, he is averaging less than 20 points per game of 19.2 points, which is clearly not enough when the team uses him as the first offensive option. The reason for this is that Wembanyama's shot choices sometimes seem too casual, and he often feels that the opponent's height cannot interfere with him after receiving the ball, so he shoots directly. This is also a major shortcoming of Wembanyama, as previously believed by David Robinson.
And Embiid can be said to be ashamed and brave this season, and his average points per game in the regular season reached a new high, although this is only the beginning of the season, Embiid's average of 37.6 points per game still makes him sit in the first place on the scoring list.
However, Wembanyama's advantage over Embiid is still on the defensive end. Although Embiid's defense is also extremely good, and even as soon as he entered the league, he staged a full-court chase after James and gave him a pegboard hat (this ball is actually an interference ball), in recent seasons, due to being divided more energy on the offensive end, Embiid's dominance on the defensive end has actually declined, but as long as the team needs it, he can still stand up to help the team provide stable box defense.
Wembanyama's advantage is his unique physical talent, his huge height and long arm span make his interior defense range unusually large, and he is also very good at switching to small guards, it can be said that in the half-court, Wembanyama's defense is completely open, and at this point, even Giannis can hardly say that he can completely outperform Wembanyama. The average of 11 rebounds per game also shows that Wembanyama can protect his rebounds well, and the average of 4.3 blocks per game also makes Wembanyama temporarily ranked first on the block list.
Although Wembanyama was once called a "unicorn" before the draft, he was seen as someone who "can change the game of basketball", but after entering the league, in addition to his physical gifts, which are indeed rare in history, his entire style of play is actually more like a traditional interior player.
Although Jokic, the strongest interior player in the current team, is inferior to these two on the defensive end, his overall offensive efficiency is much higher, not to mention that he can also use his passing to help improve the offensive efficiency of the entire team.
However, the Spurs have not thought of letting Wembanyama work on this ability, at least not this season.
Since he himself said that he wants to win the championship as quickly as possible, then trying to play his greatest advantage is the most important thing, as for organizing the team's attack, it is better to leave it to Chang Tiancheng.
Chang Tiancheng looked at the situation on the field, Wembanyama's team now does not have a player on the field who can be called an organizer. The most reliable playmaker is Graham, and Sochan occasionally helps to organize the tandem, but from the above, it is Wembanyama's team that has a greater advantage.
This is mainly because Wembanyama's inside advantage is too great, although the opposing team also has Drummond on the inside, but Wembanyama is no longer Wembanyama when he first entered the league, after experiencing Giannis's baptism, the current Wembanyama can be said to have a lot of offensive means, and it is more than enough to deal with Drummond.
And Keldon's team originally had the most reliable way to score was Keldon's own breakthrough with the ball, but Wembanyama's threat on the inside was too great, which made him not dare to break through to the inside easily, so he could only keep passing the ball to McDermott on the outside, hoping to let him find his touch first, and then use his outside shooting to contain the opponent's inside.
However, it is a pity that McDermott's shooting touch today is not very good, and the consecutive three-point irons also made him a little less confident to shoot, and he will quickly pass back to Keldon when he receives the ball.
Keldon held the ball outside the three-point line, faced Graham's defense, gritted his teeth, and rushed inside with the ball.
But this kind of behavior naturally did not have any particularly good results, just when Keldon was about to raise his hand and jump to the basket, Wembanyama's big hand was already in place, directly pinned Keldon's layup to the rebound, and then gently flicked the ball in his direction and won the defensive rebound.
Just then, Popovich got up from his seat.