NBA Christmas wars, the Celts 139-118 big broken bucks.
In the seven games of last season, the Celtics were still the youth army, challenging the defending champion. At that time, the Celtics were still carrying out the force of the whole team to surround Yanis, and they had to rely on 46 points in the sixth game Tatum to save their lives.
Half a year later, the two sides played against each other and became the top battle in the real East: Tatum 41 points and Jay Lenn 29 points.
Of course, NBA Christmas wars is special, so it is too early to compete with the team. But the progress of Tatum and Jay Lun is especially clear today.
Today, Tatum scored 41 points and scored 11 second scores, 6 of which ate assists. Including in the first half of the game, I let Lopes pass, and the anger buckled Yanis: obviously challenging the first person in the east.
— But it can’t be said that he ate cakes: Today, Tatum won three three-point goals, all of which were signboards to get rid of strong investment.
This is the interesting part of Tatum this season:
Tatum’s second-point assists rate was 46%, and he became the team’s first main attacker in the past two years. The second-point assists rate was 38% and 43%: Self-Reliance did not ask for people.
This season’s second-pointer assist rate is 51%, and today’s rate is 55%.
Give up the right to the ball and actively cut the ball. Less sticky balls, more cover, running cooperation.
Another detail:
16 percent of his career shots were long and medium shots, less than 9 percent this season. The average range of career two-pointer is 7.8 feet, 6.5 this season. Career three points/basket ratio 65%, this season 71%.
That is: In the end mode, Tatum is playing more and more magic ball.
Improve the effect, but it doesn’t stick to the ball.
He scored 27 points, 4.4 assists in 4.7 minutes per game last season. He scored 31 points, 4.1 assists per game for 4.3 minutes this season. The real hit rate is as high as 62%.
He even used his efficiency to generate gravity:
For example, today he took the attention of Lopes with an empty cut, and Lowe was able to comfortably hold an empty dunk.
Tatum also has gravity?
The other side:
Jay Brown’s career had been focusing on counterattack, weak side three points and forced attack under the basket before.
This season has also changed sex:
Jay Lun’s career shot, three meters away to three point line of the Chinese investment, hit 45%: 54% this season.
Free throw career 72%, this season 79%: last month even up to 84%.
Free throws and center shots are the things that most reflect the players’ intentions-can’t other skills be practiced, and can’t free throws be practiced?
Today, Jay Lun had a wonderful selection to split the gear and find a double cover, which was distributed to the weak side space for long shot.
And a successful player in the pace transformation.
Jay Lun, who started a raging fire, has become meticulous.
Therefore, both Tatum and Jellen have indeed made progress. Janis must have felt very clear: half a year ago, these two teenagers were still crawling around him and trying to find ways to surround him. Today, their own winds and fires cannot be pressed.
The progress of Miao in Tatum and Jay Lun is regarded as missing and missing:
Tatum, who has always been inefficient and will stick to the ball when he is in a hurry last season, has greatly improved his efficiency and reduced the ball holding.
Jay Lun, who has always been three points + counterattack + attacking the basket, carefully polished his middle shot, holding the ball and free throws.
Where did you come from?
I have a little theory, let’s call it “finals effect:
Riley believes that winning a championship will kill the desire to win the championship.
But I think this is mainly applicable to those veterans: winning a championship, burning out passion and desire, can’t do any more.
However, for highly motivated players, winning a championship, a Finals MVP and even going through a finals may lead to transformation.
In 1984, Byrd won his first regular season MVP with 24+10+7 games and finally won the championship. Next season, he won the regular season MVP: 29+11+7 games, in particular, the three-point rate mentioned 43% from 25%: We started to challenge the three-point goal, and we all know what happened later.
Jordan won the first ring in 1991, led the team 67 wins and won the championship in the second year, and then went to Barcelona to win the championship with great enthusiasm. He played more than 4000 minutes of NBA games and Olympic Games a year, the highest 759 points in the playoff career that year.
In 1994, the dream got the first ring, and in the second year, it played jazz Sun Spurs magic in the playoffs.
After Kobe Bryant’s MVP of the first finals in 2009, he was firm and ruthless next year and killed six times in a single season.
After LeBlanc won the MVP of the first finals in 2012, he led the team to play 27 consecutive victories in the regular season next year. Both offensive and defensive were perfect and his career was in the peak season.
Closer, after Yannis won the championship in 2021, he played the highest game of his career at that time with an average of 30 points next year.
After winning the championship last season and winning the MVP of the finals, Curry hit 50% this season and scored 5 three-point shots with an average of 43%. Wikins career best data.
Similar to this: after getting a ring, especially after getting a Finals MVP, as long as the body can hold up, the spirit and competitive state will naturally be reborn.
I have experienced the highest level of confrontation and won. The details and confidence of the play are polished to the best. Playing regular season again is like playing.
On the other hand, after losing the finals, there are still some motivated players. What will happen?
In the 2011 Le Blanc finals, it was a shame to lose the game, and the back chisel was not touching. The next year, the team won the championship, and the back played Sofo Loza and harden.
Leonard lost the finals in Spurs in 2013, and lost two free throws in the sixth game. He won the championship in Spurs next year, and Leonard’s finals MVP.
Sun fans naturally noticed that Booker’s attack and defense details have made remarkable progress since he lost the finals in 2021.
After losing the finals in 2008, Kobe polished the winning team in the next season, leading the team to win 65 in the third regular season of the Lakers young pioneer team history, winning the championship; He continued to find a dream to practice his back and defend his title.
I doubt that Tatum and Jay Lun saw their shortcomings during their defeat in the 2022 finals.
After playing Wikins with the ball, Tatum found that he had to improve his efficiency without the ball.
Jay Lun hit 35% in the playoffs last season.
Therefore, the direction of their efforts this season corresponds to the regret of last season’s finals.
Even Tatum’s active air-cutting control this season, coach mazula let the Celtics attack the five-block attack, occasionally flashing the shadow of warriors and curry in the playoffs of last season.
Coach marzula said before the season that the Celtics players were hungry and curious. They “want to know why they can’t play like this, then they can play”. The so-called yes or no, of course, refers to the result of last season’s finals.
Probably, the world remembers the details of last season’s Finals best, Tatum and Jay Lun.
Their respective outstanding performances this season are all marked by the finals of last season.