Carmelo melon Anthony.
What is a summary of his career?
He has no champion, no annual period, no MVP.
He is very good at scoring. Few people can score better than him.
NBA career 28289 points, the ninth in history. The front is shark, and the back is Moses Malone.
The second small forward in history.
Before Clay Thompson set a 37-point record for a single session, melon tied the score for a single session: 33 points for a single session in the 2008-09 season.
No matter the total score or burst score, he is perfect.
Any player ranked ninth in the vast NBA history, which is an excellent result. But melons are probably rare:
“Oh, he scored so much…… But it’s a pity that he could have played better……”
In the top 14 scores in history, only one person had neither the Championship nor the MVP.
The fifteenth is: Dominic human movie essence Wilkins. Not willing to pass, not willing to defend, but really good at scoring and playing.
— In fact, in the 1980 s, there were a lot of positions with number 3: Bernard King, Wilkins, Dantley and Aguirre, including the legends Inglish and Van der Vech of melon’s own nuggets. Melon is the ultimate enhanced version of this group of people.
He is really good at scoring, scoring in various ways-but only scoring.
What kind of start did melon have? In high school, he once stood opposite LeBlanc.
Then he went to Syracuse University for his freshman year. As the scoring champion of the team, he took Syracuse to the university championship. He scored 33 points in the final four against Texas University and recorded new basketball players in college. Kansas in the final, 20 points and 10 rebounds.
Newcomer, as the scoring champion of the team, won the national championship-Takehiko Inoue didn’t dare to draw Rukawa Kaede to win the championship with northern Hunan?
So he took part in the 2003 draft, because in the university, he finished everything and had nothing to pursue.
— A similar legend was completed by Anthony Davis in Kentucky in 2012.
This is the starting point and ending point of his college basketball.
A little thing that only the people involved can remember: we all remember that Kobe won the score in 2005-07, but in fact, in the first half of 2006-07 season, melon was the leader in the scoring list. He averaged 31 points before the All-Star Game that year.
What happened later is well known: Kobe broke out in four consecutive games in March 2007, with an average of 40 points per month, and later came to the top.
It doesn’t matter: melon in the fourth grade, before he reached the age of 23, won the victory between NBA and Kobe at the peak.
This is his NBA starting point.
He entered the playoff game smoothly. Compared with LeBlanc, he didn’t enter the playoff game until the third grade. Melon hasn’t missed the playoff game since the rookie year. But……
After losing the Clippers series in 2006, melon said something unknown:
“I don’t want to spend eight years in the first round like KG.”
In hindsight, the words became difficult.
Melon is a kaleidoscope with scores. It has been described many times before:
You may see him throwing a three-pointer in the fast attack; Seeing him holding the ball in the three point line, turning to break through the basket; You may see him sticking in place receive the ball in his left waist and ass, turning around and exploring the virtual point of the step, then it’s a middle shot, or a breakthrough; You may also see him sticking his butt in place receive the ball on his right waist, pushing his big ass all the way to the basket and shooting a backward shot. You may see him suddenly accelerating around the bottom corner of the left wing to get rid of the cover and receive the ball a hit shot; You may also see him playing with the defender to split, cut out, receive the ball in the empty space
He can swim without a ball, hit his back at a low position, and attack at three or extra-thin noodles baskets.
Melon likes to hold the ball in the waist of the left and right forbidden areas. His big ass ensures that he can easily squat there to the ball. After receive the ball of the back, melon will come to a chic Sikma step and turn to the noodle basket,
Then he stretched out his right foot and pointed out a tentative step. This thing is his unique skill, similar to the opening of the test: “OK, now guess what my next step is?”
Stay where you are? He may make a breakthrough along this trail. Melon does not have the speed of LeBlanc and Wade, but it is still not slow. And he was stuck by his wide shoulder and fat Hip. If he overtook the car, you would never go back.
Follow one step? He may have a reverse cushion step left hand breakthrough.
Take half a step back and open the distance so that he can’t break through? He can take advantage of the distance and jump directly in front of you.
After half a step back, watching him play the shooting action, you immediately focus on shooting with him? He may just play a fake shooting action and slide directly under your armpit and pass.
As early as his freshman year in 2003, Ian Thomson’s scout report said:
“His skill is enough for him to play multiple positions. He is most suitable for small forward because he can play fengshui ball, fast break and jump shot, but he is big enough to fight inside.”
Imagine you are defending him.
Hold the ball and try to step: when he tries to step on his right foot, his whole body will lean forward to the left of his opponent. Do you react?
No reaction, he broke through your left shoulder directly. You retreat, he wins the vote.
You move to the left, the melon right foot is closed, force, and the left hand breaks through.
During the peak period of melon, the first step is fierce, because one is that he often steps forward; The other is that he only needs to cross your shoulder and then stuck you.
During the peak period of melon, the basket ended tough: because his feet jumped wildly after breaking through, the whole person shook the ground when he hit you.
Other players often need to close their legs and lower their waist to store their strength after the test step. However, melon and Kobe can dance the ball in place and set the test step. Suddenly, they are strong, move higher and walk you.
During the trial step, the melon’s center of gravity was very deep; When he was on his back, the melon’s legs split greatly. Therefore, if you don’t lower your waist and go to khaki, he can greatly split, get stuck one step, break through the basket step by step, turn over the bottom line when you back, and then jump to the basket.
If you also have a large margin of split, he will turn over and vote directly for you.
Low center of gravity, large stride width, wide body position, ability to break through both left and right hands, quick jump and high shot at anytime and anywhere, fixed-point shooting threat (so he plays FIBA games more efficiently than NBA games).
It is indeed impossible to prevent.
When Batum first entered NBA, Macmillan taught him to defend.
To LeBlanc: “prevent him from breaking through.” To Durant: “prevent him from shooting.” To Kobe: “Good luck……”
Kobe is a serial killer with such comprehensive offensive methods, but Pierce said melon was the most difficult to prevent when comparing the older ones-Kobe, Carter, LeBlanc, McGrady and melon.
“He is a unique combination, tall, strong, running and jumping, as well as world-class shooting ability, which can naturally attack the basket-every technical link of his competition is excellent; some players are good at one or two tricks, melon can do everything, and he has no specific Sweet area, so he can score everywhere; The combination of his physique and shooting feel is incomparable, you can’t relax for a moment. Kobe is the best scorer in history, but I am not as uncomfortable as melon when I defend against him. LeBlanc is very tough, but sometimes you can defend him from jumping shots. For melon, there is no way to put it.”
But…… I have said many times before:
In 2003, Alexander Wolfe’s report pointed out that the melon in the freshman year of Syracuse:
“It is obvious that the hit rate of the opponent is higher when the back is strong, but from time to time it is careless to make a jump shot”.
Such a tough body, melon career hit rate of 44.5%, the real hit rate of 54.3%.
The real shooting rate in the playoffs is 51%.
Because of such a natural and unrestrained three threats and such a strong physique, they do not always kill the basket. His technique is impeccable and beautiful without a dead angle, and he also has a strong body that makes the opposite person headache. But when he wants to fight, he always unconsciously chooses to shake away, A light jump shot.
He didn’t want to go through the first round in the eighth year of his career like KG-but in fact, he also passed the first round twice in his own career.
In most of the first-round playoff career, melon hit 41 percent.
McGrady was also in the first round in his life and played very well: the shooting rate of career playoffs was 43%.
We all know that melon has won three championships in the four Olympic Games and performed courageously in the 2012 Olympic Games, but there is nothing to mention.
He scored a three-point rate of 41% in the Olympic Games, with a total of 139 hits, the 11th in the history of the Olympic Games.
His total Olympic hit rate: 43%.
A comparison that may scare people……
Muskmelon averaged 11 points in the four Olympic Games, with a hit rate of 43% and a three-point rate of 41%.
Hu Weidong averaged 11 points in the three Olympic Games, with a hit rate of 45% and a three-point rate of 39%.
I am another fan of Hu Weidong, and I dare not say that Hu Weidong is better than melon.
How did melon cast a 43% hit rate under the overwhelming advantage of the US team? Those who have seen his ball naturally understand.
In addition to scoring, there is another problem:
With the singles score removed, LeBlanc was still a genius organizer during the peak period, or the defensive trump card in Miami; With the singles score removed, Thunder version Durant was the king of running in series without a ball, warrior version Durant is an excellent basket protector..
In addition to scoring, the advantages of melon are…… A decent rebounder?
When George Carl got Gary Nelly, he said that he planned to let the Italians try the number of melons, which was:
“Participate in blocking and dismantling; Landing attack; Playing with the ball”. This is the use of melon.
In fact, the trip to the Western final of the 2008-09 season, which was the young pioneer team history record, was also the most glorious season for melon. He averaged 27 points in the playoffs that year and 31 points in the next year.
The reason is very simple: at that time, chaanxi Billups was in the overall situation. The Nuggets of those two years were completely around melons: melons were constantly holding the ball around the left and right waist, accompanied by Martin and the weak side of the inner side, Billups and afraro’s long shot, JR Smith’s three-pointer pursuit……
When melon is used as a “point for holding the ball” and is matched with a player, a shooter, an insider, and a defender, everything is flowing.
You can’t give melon a ball to drive him through the half-time like you treat LeBlanc or Wade. “You can either burst or pass or throw yourself. In short, change something!”
You have to let melon fall into position, arrange others to block it, and give him the ball; He can always score for you, but it is not necessarily efficient.
Of course, melon is very good at playing shots, with a big heart and no tension. In the 2005-06 season, he led the league by killing numbers. But his murderous point was not from Jordan or Byrd’s paranoia, but to relax-which he was very similar to Carter.
He is seldom nervous and always smiles. On the occasion of killing, other people sweat like pulp, hoping not to shrink the sun into the abdomen. He was calm and happy.
Except for the 2009 playoffs, he seldom showed the murderous expression that “I will never allow the team to lose.
Shooting choice has long been a problem for him. With the choice of shooting, it is his time-and-time defensive enthusiasm. When the game is at stake, the real stars can also show their enthusiasm on the defensive end. Go, jump, roll, climb, and put on a murderous face.
At the critical moment, melon “come and come, I will win this if I kill myself”, which is much less; More is “I just vote in, I am not nervous at all, how?”
Melon attaches great importance to whether playing ball is fun. If you set up tactics for him and give him a suitable role position, he will play happily; If he is in an inappropriate system, he will not be happy. Looking at his body language, you can see that he is happy or not, and whether he is happy or not directly affects the state. He seldom fought to defend, and he would not have the energy of “I will kill all my teammates if I lose this game.
After Billups arrived at the Nuggets in 2008, The Denver Post also mentioned that melon and JR Smith also learned to dress Changxi and thought Changxi was cool-in turn, melon always laughed like a little boy.
He is a scorer with such excellent skills. As long as he is given freedom, he will be very happy. As long as he is happy, he is a good teammate: willing to pass the ball, willing to actively run, willing to fight at the critical moment.
But the premise is: you must first place him in his favorite role to make him happy.
Technically, melon is one of the most precocious players in NBA history. Many players have a lifetime to perfect their offensive skills, and he has been in the plenary session of his freshman year.
Emotionally, he is more a boy who can play well only by watching his mood playing, having accurate positioning, needing someone to help defend and giving the ball in time. He is really good at scoring — but only for you.
Changxi said a paragraph describing melon during gold digging, saying that he was a good teammate, but “he cares too much about getting 30 points per game”.
“If he gets 20 points or 22 points in a game, and we win, he will be unhappy; If we lose in a game, he got 36 points, and he would be happy.”
Perhaps for melon, the National University championship in 2003 came too easily and too early.
His technique is too premature. What others pursue hard, he takes it easily. So he thought, “I don’t want to go through the first round in eight years like KG”.
Magicians and Qiao Dan both had this stage. They both won the championship in college, so when they entered NBA, they felt that “shouldn’t they aim to win the championship?” The magician was lucky to have the sky hook, but he didn’t really take over the Lakers until 1987. Jordan stayed up until the seventh grade to win the championship.
According to Changxi’s statement, melon has not entered the mentality of playing with the substitute for a long time. It may not be able to finish the match and only wants to help the team.
In hindsight, it was a little late for him to reach this mentality-the last three years of his career.
And the Times never stop.
In the era of efficiency first, role players don’t need to stop and win the vote. He has no dead angle to strengthen China investment, and the value is discounted.
In the era of anti-defensive supremacy, there is no need for a non-center to rebound in the front court. His sense of smell of front-court rebound is discounted.
In this era when everyone is in a hurry, unless you can give three points to your teammates, you don’t need to go back and forth.
Melon has to hold the ball within 20 feet to keep scoring. The value of his three threats is discounted.
He was an excellent hired Knight for most of his life, and he had all the advantages and disadvantages of the hired Knight. However, the era has quietly advanced to the era of line shooting, and the shortcomings have suddenly become clear.
When a person is red, everything is beautiful and moving. But in the past, it was cruel, simple and direct.
Those scorers in the 1980’s were suddenly abandoned. Dentley was still playing the finals with the piston one year ago and was abandoned and thrown to Dallas by assassins next season. Bernard King averaged 28 points at the age of 34. The total score of the next season was less than 20,000, and he was given up.
Melon has been given up too late-in another week, he will be 39 years old.
In the Blazers, in the Lakers, in the last three seasons of his career, he actually played hard.
He also defended and accepted the role of fixed-point shooter, but he was not young at that time.
If you possessed the melon from 2005 to 10 with the mentality at that time, maybe the Nuggets would look different?
I don’t know.
If you need to concentrate the picture of melon career history, it is probably a jump shot after the three threats of split.
That is his signature skill, the action to carry out his NBA career, the basis for him to get the ninth score in history, and the key to his career.
He has perfect scoring skills for singles, no shooting dead ends, no flaws to pick, long career, single break out, history has him, he is the kaleidoscope of ultimate scoring, his skills are too early, he can play most of his career with a smile and willfulness; If NBA doesn’t rely on fighting for defense but a scoring skill performance, he is almost incomparable; He can really score, few people in basketball history can score better than him.
“But from time to time, I casually write a jump shot”.
