Poole, Croal and Maxi are always put in a discussion topic. Because of their close types, anfanni Simmons is sometimes put in. They have two things in common:

First, they are all combo guard who are mainly arrogant and poorly defended;

Second, they were “born” in a winning team.

Turning the time back to the end of 2021, Warriors, heat and 76 people showed their ambition to advance to the regional finals. This is why Poole, Croal and Maxi gained the fetters at that time. Their respective rise has become the X factor of the teams in the first half of the playoffs. Generally speaking, it is not easy for the teams in this segment to emerge a team in their early 20 s, which can play and hold the ball. The round share is about 25%, stable rookie with 30 minutes of playing time.

It sounds like a story that cannot be better to win the championship and have young developers rising strongly. But as long as you recall the public opinion at that time, you should realize that collapse did not happen suddenly-worries about Poole, Croal and Maxi never existed, no one was optimistic that little Simmons took over CJ’s mantle and set another Suncha with Lillard. They have always been the X factor, not only because they are young, but also because they are full of uncertain competition styles.

What is the least pleasing position on the basketball court?

Can’t defend, and can’t play the guard of the point guard.

Such players can not provide counterposition flexibility, can not lead the opposite arrow, can not drive the team’s overall attack, and the game value beyond scoring is very small. “Pure backcourt shooter” and “combo guard” often belong to this category. When Joe Harris and Deng Luo couldn’t get three points, they would make the heat and basketable nets regretful, but after all, they didn’t get a contract with a starting salary of 20%, the pricing of pure shooters has its upper limit.

However, one can’t defend. The so-called “dual-energy” actually can’t play the “combo guard” of the real point guard, but it has a bigger role in the game. They have more postures than pure shooters and more resources to eat. They are usually shooters, but the space value of turning without a ball exceeds that of full-time shooters. They have the ball-holding development technology, but their talent does not support a large number of hard solutions. They need tactical support, but they cannot drag the whole team in this process. Finally, they examined their “KPI” in terms of scoring and scoring efficiency, and how many mistakes were sent in this process. In addition, there are a considerable proportion of jump shots in their offensive methods-14 feet away, Croal 58%, Poole 57%, little Simmons 64%, Maxi 46%-when the hand feels struggling, even if you have more scoring methods than pure shooters, you may not be able to save a disaster night.

The league is alert to such players, otherwise Clarkson’s new contract will not only take 3 years and 55 million, and this price is equivalent to the premium full-time shooters. In the 20-21 season, Sexton averaged 24.3 points per game, with a real hit rate of 57.3 percent. He played an amazing one-England battle and three lübu, but the Knight paid a lot of money to renew his contract, in the end, it was because the transaction needed Jazz to take over the offer, and the 4-year contract did not exceed 20 million until the last season. Sexton suffered injuries in the critical fourth grade and played only 11 games. This kind of thing happened in the contract year was not conducive to negotiations, but the interesting place is not here-the Knight did not intend to offer an early renewal contract when Sexton finished the third grade, but generally speaking, you won’t let the 8th young man with 24.3 points on average become a restricted free agent to increase the risk of market bidding. So far, Knights have no reason to regret.

In this way, Warriors and the Heat are indeed like suckers. They have spent a sum of money on the type that is easy to roll over, while Warriors have really turned over, the heat was also frowning-look at the look of Croal being rejected in the trading market, and then think about the black eight journey that just entered the finals. Croal just attended the grand and epic opening ceremony.

The cheaper anfenny Simmons is not good either. He secretly scored the highest average score in his career in Portland, which nobody cared about. He had the craziest ability of shooting and blasting among the four little swans. Although it was embarrassing to participate in the dunk contest, but it also proves his outstanding physical quality from the side. However, this is useless. He is still too thin and his compatibility with Lillard is not better than CJ. The pioneer’s new Suncha experiment failed completely. If Lillard stayed in the team (this assumption no longer exists), little Simmons must be a chip. Lillard left the team, and he was not on the core list of trailblazers rebuilding-the Trailblazers said they would rebuild around Henderson and sharp. 1.0 plan, 2.0 plan and little Simmons are all rejected.

Maxi is better than the three brothers. He has a higher proportion of basket shots, which is based on the explosive speed visible to the naked eye. He is also a defensive weakness. Compared with the other three brothers, the coach will let him try some difficult opponents. Although he is the shortest, he has the largest weight, and the go by like the wind counterattack can highlight his good physical ability. But this is not important, the key is positioning:

Take Harden away, give the ball to Maxi, and let him play with the Great. Does he play well?

Although in a small sample, Harden was not present. When enbid and Maxi were present, 76 people had good attack data, but they extended the time to a season, expectation s seems to be pessimistic-can Maxi’s ball be given in the face of delay? Can the opponent pass around the former great or cover Maxi’s exit route with a tall one, and he give the ball to the Great who wants a position? At least so far, macsy has not proved that he has the potential to transform position 1.

So the dog took a sigh of relief-fortunately, it was okay. Maxi was one to two times smaller than the other three little swans. Ray, you helped me, and I’m not welcome. Although 76 people strongly expressed their attitude of not sending maxi away, they did not intend to offer him an early renewal contract now. This is very interesting. The technical consideration is that the renewal of maxi in advance will trigger the poison clause that is difficult to balance. Even if the subtext of “keeping the tradeability in the next year” is not considered, 76 people may not want to copy warriors, the experience of the heat.

You should carefully open a contract for “defenders who can’t defend and can’t play point guards. After being beaten or seen beaten by others, the management will remember this principle more strongly.

Of course, if we take the time back for one year and look at the past from the perspective of warriors and heat, we can still find reasons for them. At least the reasons for Warriors are sufficient.

In the summer of 2022, Poole looked like this:

In the playoffs that year, Poole averaged 17 points, with a three-point hit rate of 39.1 percent and a real hit rate of 65.4 percent. What is the concept of scoring efficiency? In the 2022 playoffs, 21 players with a total playing time of more than 500 minutes, Poole ranked second in the real shooting rate, and Horford, ranked first, basically only did receive the ball votes;

Or so, no player in the playoffs this year can beat Poole at the same time in the round share and the real hit rate;

He has two rounds of burst series, and two rounds of series with mixed reputation but high highlights to help win. Don’t underestimate the frequency of such bursts. In 21 years, Middleton, the highlight round, the pull round, and the two rounds are not much more stable than Poole.

Most importantly, the outbreak of Poole has a fairly clear growth track and technical preparation. From the very beginning, there was a bold shooting choice without a prospective star, to gradually sending out high-gloss matches that hit three points in a row, to stably contributing empty space responses and frequently rushing into high difficulty. From the ball-free attacker, who is only regarded as a jump shot, to the incisive and striking end, it can show aggressiveness, and then to the integration of ball holding skills and walking consciousness, inheriting the warrior’s back-court style with or without ball switching. Step by step, step by step every year, with the league’s first free throw hit rate, soft wrist feeling, and ability to walk freethrow line, let you believe that his outbreak is not a flash in the pan, he has the ability to guarantee the bottom output, there is even a chance to get better. For example, he will accidentally show his coquettish awareness of playing the ball, which can provide more energy in a larger role, which is an exploitable growth direction.

Therefore, it is completely understandable that Warriors paid for Poole in 2022. The growth curve of Poole was quite optimistic at that time, which had a year later, Poole would be more popular in the free market.

So, what does a better Poole look like?

There are two directions for the growth of players in this category:

The first one is to grow into a super scorer without a dead corner. Mitchell may be the ceiling of the alliance’s active service category. After he made up the short board of the near Basket, there is basically no corner for scoring-this is why Lavin is not as good as Mitchell-with certain space and hands-on support, he has unlimited skills. But Mitchell is the existence that the four little swans can’t learn. Although he is only 1.85 meters, he does have 98kg (the heaviest maxi 91kg of the four little swans), latissimus dorsi, deltoid muscle, triceps muscle explosion, there is also nearly unlimited physical fitness. Four Little Swan can’t practice in the gym every day;

The second type is converted to number 1. Since it is the size of the No. 1 position, the playing method needs to be frequently called blocking and dismantling, and lacks the talent of hard solution, then simply transform the No. 1 position to solve the problems of defense compatibility and tactical positioning. However, these “soft power” are difficult to practice because of the passing vision and the awareness of reading the game, and there are few successful cases of the transition of No. 2 to No. 1 in the league. At some moments of the 21-22 season, little Simmons once showed the potential of transforming number 1. These potentials finally stayed on the surface and have not been fully realized so far. Poole was really eye-catching when passing coquettish, but as long as the Warriors put him in the position of organizer, it was more likely that the number of mistakes could not be controlled at all.

Either Poole or the other three little Swans, they have prospects, but their physical talent and awareness of reading the competition are there. They need to be closer and lack ready-made templates.

So?

So warriors and heat still believe that the situation will be different here. Indeed, Warriors and heat are too special. They have the best technical and tactical preparations and habits of the alliance. They disperse the organization work in different positions and do not force the frequent hard solution of scorers. Compared with Sexton, you can see more team sense from Poole and Croal, which can be embedded in the team system, as long as they can hit the jump shot, cut in at the right time, and correctly use the time when individuals change their defense to get out, their comprehensive game ability will be released. On the other hand, these two teams are very good at small ball defense. They will try their best to make up for the disadvantages of their body shape with Team integrity, so that Poole and Croal can be protected at this end.

The above belief is no fantasy. The Warrior won the championship with Poole. When he set off a tsunami storm with Curry and Thompson, did you also marvel at the Storm in the Golden Ocean of Datong center? The heat and Croal entered the finals together. Croal of the students who played high highlights in the park in 20 years were only first-grade students. You can’t expect such a youth outbreak. Croal is indeed getting better after a year of stagnation.

We have to consider the reality again-for a team that can’t have space under the hat in the short term, you can’t miss the talent cultivated by yourself. Even if you don’t include Poole and Croal in the long-term plan, as long as you don’t plan to send them away before the rookie contract ends-the heat has taken Croal as a bargaining chip in countless “intentional, but he did not succeed, and back in the summer of 22, except for fans who only needed to move their mouths, no one could have the courage to directly send Poole away from the position of general manager of warriors-so, providing an early renewal contract to ensure a valuable asset for a long time in the future is a decision to follow the trend.

OK, buff is full:

It seems that there is still potential to dig;

The special tactical system of the team;

Successful playoff cooperation resume;

The experience of the highest stage;

The non-cap team does not want to lose valuable assets.

They showed up at the right time, helping playoff teams that are difficult to strengthen. They came to the renewal stall at the wrong time, making the management unable to do anything against the explosive salary slip. There is a wonderful balance of luck in the world. It won’t let you take advantage of it. Therefore, the consequence of not wanting to lose assets is that more assets are lost.

Poole really lost his shooting target, and the result of shooting 33.6% in three points (25.4% in the playoffs) was that he could not fill in his injuries in other aspects by scoring, warriors aggravated the deterioration of body matching, and further amplified Poole’s defense incompatibility. Since the team can only provide full service to Poole’s tactical positioning during Curry’s absence, and only at this time have a strong demand for his ability to carry output, this made Poole’s value to Warriors more limited, but the harm he brought really covered every minute of his presence. “You can’t defend, and you can’t play the guard.” No matter how many successful cooperation resumes you have, no matter how inclusive the attack and defense system you have, it’s hard not to admit it, once the skills of such players fail, all their good visions will disappear.

In the end, Poole just got a contract that would probably be cut if the Warriors didn’t do it. However, Poole won the team position he wanted, and he will become the wizard’s attack arrow and eat more ball rights. But Qicai didn’t have the internal control point and didn’t help him play the game once again. He had to suffer more rigorous counterdefense, which required him to play more firmly, continuing to try a lame forced breakthrough may trigger more mistakes, and he needs more middle distance to be removed. He will encounter more attacks. Jones’s licensing and his good off the ball can cope with this situation to some extent, but the test of the timing of the ball is still inevitable. Whether the melon-eating masses who are waiting to see the Warriors jokes can succeed depends on whether they can make progress in the middle distance and the goal. Of course, this premise is that at least he has to find some three-point hand feeling, hold basic disk steady first.

However, Croal and little Simmons may also change their doors. I am not worried about their ability to block and dismantle the development of jump shots, but they have basically touched the upper limit of development attacks that they can reach. Are they Clarkson who woke up earlier or Malik Monk with better luck? Before the arrival of the best premium opportunity in your career, he broke out his potential and signed a good contract? Getting a 30-minute starting treatment can’t guarantee that there must be a starting or shots position. Perhaps, this is the most reasonable way for them to use it. For such players, the more suitable price should not exceed 20 million.

The dog saw all this, so Maxi was perhaps the biggest loser.

Are these all tragedies?

1.98 m, 101kg, a body of tendon, can complete a beautiful pull-up in the middle distance. Fast-tapping dunks, such as cheetahs, can show flowers in more than relieve a garrison locations. Anyway, can’t you put it in this category?

Yes, Yogueta was placed in the position of the main attacker on the side wing of the defense opponent. There are multiple ball-holding points and high-quality space environment around him, so that he does not need to do too many difficult processing balls, there are also big brother who undertake the main task of attacking the key. Then, he is indeed more powerful and compatible than the four little swans.

However, this does not prevent him from playing the same game influence as the four little swans (BPM is not as good as Poole in the 22 playoffs and Maxi in the 23 playoffs)-Yogueta is not very defensive, however, he has undertaken a relatively simple Defense Task. At the same time, compared with the four little Swans, he has the advantage of developing attacks and only has greater one-to-one value of punishing dislocation, this kind of opportunity only accounts for a small part of the competition.

So, do Celtics really want to give Jay Brown a contract of 5 years and 0.3 billion years?

Really, think about it.