Lauri-malcanin covered the three points of Franz Wagner, which dashed the hope that magic would equalize the score in the last 5 seconds.
When the camera was given to malcanin, there was no smile on his face.
This is not a match that can make marcanin particularly satisfied. Jazz nearly overturned the ship in the sewer. He only made 4 of 13 shots in the sports battle, and made 5 mistakes, among them, the last three sections are 5 cast 0. However, it is precisely this competition that can prove the evolution of malcanin. Malcanin can win a large number of free throws by killing when he feels bad, and the defensive end is not afraid of the opponent’s naming. Now he has changed greatly compared with the image of “weak anti-aircraft artillery.
This season, the tougher markanin scored 24.6 points, field goal percentage 52%, and hit 41.4% in three points. He can make 5.8 free throws in the game, all of which are career highs. In the sixth year of his career, malcanin finally became the core of the team’s attack. He is moving towards the fastest progressive player award and the first all-star.
Finland, a small Nordic country with a population of 5.5 million, sent only 2 players to NBA before 2017. The most popular sport in Finland is ice hockey. According to the data in February 2022, there were 47 Finnish players in the Major League of American professional ice hockey during the season. In the Major League of American professional ice hockey, the number of Finnish players ranks the fourth, second only to Canada, the United States and Sweden.
Malcanin did not choose hockey since childhood like most children in Finland. Because of his family, malcanin first contacted basketball. Malcanin was born in a sports family. His father Peka was 2 meters 08 tall. He played a season at NCAA Giants University of Kansas in 1989-90 and served as the starting center, leaving an average of 6.9 points, data of 3.9 backboards and 1.1 caps. Marcanin’s mother used to be a member of the national team and joined the Helsinki Basketball Academy after retirement. Although marcanin’s brother arrow didn’t choose basketball, he became a famous figure in Finnish football and once joined the Spanish giants Real Madrid.
Marcanin showed his basketball talent very early, and the Finnish basketball association invested a lot of resources to polish this unprocessed Jade. The Finnish Basketball Association rented an apartment for malcanin’s mother and son in Helsinki, and then found Hanno-Moto sling malcanin, who was the coach at the Helsinki Basketball Academy. Mortola has a head. He is the first player in Finnish history to be selected by NBA. In 2000, he was selected by the eagle in the 40th place and left after playing NBA for two seasons.
During the years of polishing technology at the Helsinki Basketball Academy, markanin was very lucky. Motora and Henrik Dietman, who took Dirk Nowitzki from 1997 to 2003, taught markanin by hand. Before that, malcanin would only float on the outside line to shoot, which made him learn both inside and outside.
In 2015, markanin flew to New York to participate in basketball borderless activities, which showed Americans his talent. In the same year, malcanin scored 18.2 points and 6.3 rebounds in the U18 Euro Championship. In the U20 Euro Championship in 2016, malcanin scored 24.9 points and 8.6 rebounds on average. This unprocessed Jade could not be hidden, Motora began to receive consultation calls from major American schools.
Sean Miller, the manager of the University of Arizona, knew that the enrollment was high-speed. He flew directly to Helsinki and invited malcanin to have a big meal to recruit this talented star. Soon, marcanin refused the invitation from the University of North Carolina and the University of Utah and chose to join Arizona. You know, the University of Utah is still Motora’s alma mater, but malcanin still didn’t give the teacher face.
Malcanin only played in Arizona for one year, but this year made him adapt to the style and intensity of American basketball. He followed the physical coach to increase his muscles step by step. At the same time, he was also practicing ball holding skills, insider attack. Malcanin averaged 15.6 points in a single season and shot 42.3 percent in three points. American media called him “the best 7-foot shooter in the history of college basketball”. Malcanin was very grateful: “Coach Miller and the whole coaching team helped me a lot. This year, my defense improved a lot. I became more mature and more tenacious.”
In the 2017 draft conference, markanin became the 7th show. However, he was immediately sent to the bull by the Timberwolves. In the bull, malcanin quickly cashed his talent. In the rookie season, he averaged 15.2 points and 7.5 rebounds, and LeBlanc James praised him.
Many people compared malcanin with Nowitzki. The Lone Ranger who held the 9th sign in the 2017 draft also tried malcanin. Carlisle admitted that he saw some shadows of Nowitzki in malcanin. Nowitzki himself said, “This child is really excellent. I didn’t expect his athletic ability to be so strong. Shooting is very easy for him and his steps move very fast, his upper limit is as high as Porzingis.”
Malcanin averaged 18.7 points and 9 rebounds in the second season, but the data of malcanin continued to decline in the 2019-20 season and 2020-21 season. Malcanin’s decline was caused by many reasons. The first was the chaos of the bull. Malcanin had cooperated with three coaches in four years. The second is the change of roles. After joining through trading Vucevic, markanin became a substitute.
“The team personnel changes, my role changes, I feel very difficult.” Marcanin recalled.
During the offseason in 2021, markanin was sent to the Knight and became a small forward in the Knight’s three-high lineup. Malcanin positioned himself as an “all-round Warrior”, but unfortunately, in the Knight, what he had to do was to open the space. What he said was low attack, Ball Advance, singles, only the Finnish national team can give him the right to play like this.
In the euro 2022 championship, malcanin finally became his “all-round Warrior”. He scored 27.9 points, 8.1 rebounds and 2.4 assists on average, the heat caused was no less than Lucca-donchic, adtokunbo and jokich. He took Finland to achieve a breakthrough and entered the top eight for the first time in 55 years. During the European Championship, markanin heard the news that he was sent to the Jazz.
Jazz is a team to be rebuilt. People in the industry generally believe that jazz may change marcanin to the first round of signing. Even today, Mannix, the famous name of Sports Illustrated, is still recommending jazz to sell malcanin at Fenggao. However, malcanin just turned himself into a non-selling product.
Malcanin used to be a model of “winning but not refined”. He could do something, but none of them were outstanding, including the outside shooting he was proud. But this season was different. Malcanin raised the goal of fixed-point shooting to a career high of 1.32 points per round. When he attacked with his back, the Jazz scored 1.2 points per round, his data ranks 10th in the league. When he took the face basket for singles, he scored 1.27 points per round, the first in the league.
“Now malcanin is omnipotent.” ESPN columnist Zac Lowe wrote that he had already taken out part of the weekly column to write malcanin twice this season, which was a high treatment.
Malcanin is no longer an ordinary anti-aircraft artillery station. His third-point shot last season was 54.1 percent, down to 44.3 percent this season. The proportion of its basket shots is close to 25%, which has significantly refreshed the career record. Jazz coach Hardy formulated many tactics for marcanin. In the full space lineup, Jazz defenders should cover for marcanin to help him get rid of defense and create dislocation to kill the basket.
“The outside world thinks malcanin’s shots are all jump shots, but in fact he has found a way to adjust his playing style according to the opponent’s defensive strategy,” Hardy said, “he has found a way to make easy shots, making free throws, he can now influence the game by attacking under the basket.”
Therefore, the real hit rate of malcanin this season is as high as. Among the three authoritative integrated data statistics that symbolize the influence of attack, malcanin is the top 15 in the league.
“In my opinion, he should be a 100% all-star.” Lavin endorsed marcanin. Hardy also believes that if anyone thinks malcanin is not an all-star, he should buy an account to watch more games. In the second round of All-Star voting, markanin temporarily ranked 7th in the western forward.
Marcanin said that entering an all-star has always been one of his goals. His coach once told him that he would definitely become an NBA all-star one day in the future.
This day is coming soon.