"I want to be a player who can win, I want to win, that's all I care about. As long as I can help the team win, whatever I want to do, I will do it. ”
This is what Siakam said in an interview during the training camp. Indeed, after two seasons of struggling performances, we should have lowered our expectations for Siakam, who had played a highlight, and even when he got the best team, his performance fluctuations were very large, especially at the end of the regular season and in the playoffs, which prompted us to see him as a watery best lineup player. So what are the best squad players besides Siakam?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" >Andre Jordan</h1>
As the style of play changed, the survival of traditional centre-forwards became increasingly difficult. Outlier geniuses like Embiid, Davis, and Jokic are really rare. Especially for jordan jr., relying on athletic ability, and getting older, this phenomenon is more obvious, if it were not for the good relationship with Irving and Durant, Jordan Jr. may have been paid at the bottom.
Jordan Jr.'s offensive tactics have always been the same. Eating cakes, making up baskets, and occasionally giving some highlight scenes, just like McGee, but overall, so far in his career, he has always been a player with little influence, and then just in the years when Embiid and Jokic were not yet playing, with the influence of the Los Angeles big ball city, and some excellent basic data, he scored two or three teams.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > John Wall</h1>
If you only look at Wall's basic stats for last season and don't watch his game footage, you'll think he's playing okay. But in the end, the Houston Rockets didn't play well under his leadership, and they just ranked in the bottom of the West at the end of the season, which proved the huge gap between him and James Harden in terms of game influence.
The 16-17 season was almost the last glory, when he averaged 23+4+10 per game, and then he was caught up in injuries and various breaks in the following seasons. Of course, with his wonderful performance that season, he entered the league's best team third team, which laid the foundation for him to win a super salary and become the worst big contract in the league.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > Pascal-Siakam</h1>
When Siakam was named to the 2019-20 NBA Eastern Conference All-Star Starters, people were still looking forward to him, when Leonard had just left, Lowry was getting old, and Siakam seemed to be about to take over the scepter of the King of the North and take a number of players such as VanVleet to break out in the East.
But we have to admit that I am too optimistic, he probably won't be a regular on the best team, he doesn't have that kind of absolute basketball talent, he can be a good at the top, he's very versatile, very adapted to the current NBA style, but there is no skill in the hard game, we better lower our expectations of him.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > Rudy Gobert</h1>
Gobert has repeatedly entered the best team with his excellent high-level data performance in the regular season. Usually Jokic or Embiid took the first or second sides and then put him in the third position. Indeed, without his presence, Sir Utah would not have reached the point he is today.
But the question of whether he is the so-called third center of the league really needs to be considered, after all, his technical characteristics are too single (the offensive end almost only has the skill of catching the ball and eating cake), and it is too limited. In the playoffs over the past few years, we have repeatedly seen him being beaten by excellent opponents.
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Last season, Leonard averaged 34.1 minutes per game, 24.8 points, 6.5 rebounds and 5.2 assists, while in the playoffs, his stats improved across the board, averaging 30.3 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 2.1 steals per game, shooting as high as 57%.
However, the resume of entering the second team in 2018-19 is indeed a bit watery. That year, he only started 60 games, and the Raptors took off all of his back-to-back games to protect his body. The reason why Toronto was able to play second in the East that year was largely because the team's bench lineup was deep, and it did not have so much to do with Xiao Ka himself.