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The melon at the peak is a scorer with 85 points.

You may see him hitting a three-pointer in the fast break; seeing him take the ball on the three-point line and break through the basket; you may see him picking up the ball in the left waist and turning his butt card in place, turning to try to falsify the point, Then the CIC, or break through; you may also see him picking up the ball in the right waist and holding the ball in the right side, using the big ass all the way to the basket and even a back-up shot. You may see him suddenly speeding off the cover at the bottom corner of the left wing, catching the ball and hitting the ball; you may also see him and the defender playing the pick-and-roll, cutting out and catching the ball in the open position. He can swim without the ball, can play in the low post, can attack in the three-point line.

However, he did not have a trick such as "LeBron storm speeds up to the basket" or "Dulant's bottom line cross-cutting and then scouting one step to jump shots" signboard finishing skills.

Oh, maybe.

Melon likes to hold the ball in the left and right sides of the penalty area. His big butt makes sure he can easily get the ball there - Durant is missing such an ass and can't get the card. After picking up the ball in the back, Melo will come to a chic Sikma step and turn to the basket.

Then he extended his right foot and clicked a test step. This stuff is his unique skill, similar to the test title: "Well, now you guess what is my next step?"

Standing still? He may step by step along this test. Melon doesn't have the speed of LeBron and Wade, but it's still not slow. And by his wide shoulders and fat hips stuck in the position over the car, you will never go back.

Follow one step? He may have a reverse step left hand breakthrough.

Take a half step away from the distance so that he can't break through? He can use the distance that is pulled and jump directly in front of you.

After taking a half step, watch him shoot the ball, do you immediately focus on him to shoot? He may just play a fake shot and slid directly from you.

When Melo entered the league, the scoring method was already a good student with all-round development, and the door was no less than 75 points. Eight years of practice, let him cast, left hand, right hand suddenly this door homework, have reached 85. The best thing is his sense of rhythm. He is able to connect this type of trick with the test steps. This is like Sun Wukong’s seventy-two changes, and he met Yang Lan. When you change the fish, he becomes a heron. When you change the bird, he becomes an eagle. "It’s too much to be with you. You will be able to hold me back when you change seventy-two!"

How premature is his technique? As early as 2003, when he was a freshman, Ian Thomson’s scouting report said:

"His skill is enough to make him play multiple positions. He is best for small forwards because he can dribble, play fast breaks, and jump shots, but he is also big enough to fight inside."

Like the big dogs Robinson, Masburn, and Pierce, he is attacking the kaleidoscope. In the third grade, he became the most savvy person in the league. In the fourth grade, he almost became the scoring champion with a dissatisfaction of 23 years old (the second score), and he developed a precise three-pointer in the fifth grade. At the time, the historical record was 33 points.

However, he and these things are still using diversity to point you.

If LeBron's breakthrough in the game is 95 points, then gradually tempered shooting; Durant scored 95 points when he entered the line, and then gradually tempered breakthrough.

Then, Melo does not have a 95-point move.

LeBron and Durant's offensive moves are far less than the seventy-two changes of melon. But in their video, they can also include other things, such as LeBron's steals, LeBron's slap in the cap, LeBron's non-human pass, Durant's rotation, Durant's weak side Blocking... To get rid of singles scoring, LeBron is still a good defender + organizer, Durant is still a good co-defense expert, no-goal walk in tandem.

And the strengths of melon, in addition to singles, what remains is... a good rebounder?

If so, in the one-on-one heads-up technique, melon is much more gorgeous than the two; but basketball technology is so vast, in other respects, he is much more single - he is more like a pure scorer.

In fact, the 2008-09 season's Nuggets team history record of the Western Conference finals is also the most brilliant season of Melo. He averaged 27 points in the playoffs that year and 31 points in the next year. The reason is simple: Chauncey Billups was in the overall situation. The two years of the Nuggets, completely around the melon: melons constantly holding the ball in the left and right waist, accompanied by Martin and Nene's weak side, Billups and Afflalo's long-range, JR Smith's chase Three-pointer... When melon is treated as a "ball-pointing point", everything goes.

But this also proves from one side: Melo is a very expensive player. Used the right place, the Western Conference finals. Is it wrong? Um... you can't treat LeBron or Wade like a ball. Give him a ball and let him pass the half. "You can either pass or pass or vote. Let's change something!" You can't do it. Treating Durant, waiting for him to run the opportunity, it is enough for him to hold three seconds per round. You have to let the melon fall, arrange for others to block, and have to find a Chauncey (there are several Chaunceys in the league) to give him the ball.

The last question is his emotions.

Melon is very good at playing key balls, the heart is big, not nervous. In the 2005-06 season, his lore number led the league. But his murderousness is not due to Jordan or Bird's paranoia, but to relaxation - this is very similar to Carter. He is rarely nervous and always smiles. In the lore occasion, other people sweated like a pulp, hate not to shrink the sun into the abdomen, he was calm and happy, happy.

The problem is that he is sometimes too relaxed.

In addition to the 2009 and 2010 two-season playoffs, he rarely showed the murderousness of "I don't allow the team to lose."

As early as 2003, Alexander Wolfe pointed out that Syracuse's fresh melon "has a strong hit on the opponent's back, but from time to time, he has a jump shot."

Accompanied by the choice of shooting is the defensive enthusiasm he sometimes does not have.

You have placed him a tactic, and he has given him the right role to position, he will be happy; in an unsuitable system, he is not happy. He is ecstatic and looks at his playing language. You can see that he is happy and unhappy, and whether he is happy or not directly affects the state.

You have to put him in his favorite role and make him happy.

In the 2006 playoffs, he said without a word: "I don't want to be killed like the KG every year." A prophecy. In addition to the 2009 Western Conference Finals, he was basically eliminated in the first round every year.

If your team's ace is a scorer who is hard to get nervous, play and watch the game, and the offense is blocked, the contribution is negative. Is it strange?

This is a strange balance.

Technically, Melo is one of the first players in NBA history. Many players have spent the rest of their lives to perfect offensive skills, and he will be a full-time offense.

But emotionally, he has always been a child who looks at his mood, plays well, needs accurate positioning, and needs people to play well.

• Above, written in 2012.

Finally, I am going to the Rockets to play the sixth man.

In the history of the scoring king, to this point, he is not the first.

In the 1953-54 season, the 32-year-old George Falxs replaced the Philadelphia Warriors in 61 games with a 27% shooting rate. His work includes throwing an average of 4 baskets per game, throwing in one, persuading, boring to play with his shoes and legs, and signing the fans (he has too much time on the bench).

In the 1958-59 season, 29-year-old Nell-Johnston was in a daze in the Philadelphia Warriors. In the past, he used his free-spirited skills in the restricted area, and now he can only send a large block to the big black people who are pouring into the NBA. Fortunately, he has a big hand and a rebound, and can also be a blue-collar mixed-mouth meal. Play one game per game, 6 points and 5 rebounds. For the rest of the day, he shouted for the former partner Paul-Arijin, and then responded to the media questioningly: "No, being overtaken by Bill Russell did not dampen my confidence..."

In the 1983-84 season, the 38-year-old Irvine Hayes wore the Rockets No. 44, listening to the audience remembering the name of Moses Malone, preparing to replace Ralph Sampson. Every time I stood up, I pretended not to notice the snoring of the auditorium. From the day he entered the NBA, he didn't like it. The teammate hated him because he was a black hole that didn't pass the ball; the team hated him because serving him was like "watering a sentence" and people wanted to die. The Houstonians especially hated him because he had betrayed the city. But he still played 81 games and scored 5 points per game.

In the same season, 35-year-old Archibald played 46 games in Milwaukee. When he was 29 years old six years ago, the whole league regarded him as an adult scum, a mixed ball and a drug dealer. He was forbidden to enter the team, for fear that he would give marijuana to everyone as soon as he entered the locker room. He did twice the training of the Celtics than others, and he died until he was sent out by the Celtics in 1983. In Milwaukee, he is nominally starting, but at every crucial moment, Moncliffe and Brigitte will take over the backcourt, leaving him with a few sheep on the bench: an old man with 7.4 points per game, the starting position is more like Care and irony.

In the 1985-86 season, 34-year-old Bob McAdoo became the sixth man in Philadelphia. Since the 1980s, he has forgotten the taste of the starting lineup - he has only played a starter since he left Detroit for six years. This old-fashioned sixth man still has a silky jumper like a creamy cake. He can also get 10 points in 21 minutes. But compared to Barkley of the same team, he is like an old machine that will make a sound when he moves.

In the same season, 33-year-old George Gwen left San Antonio for eight years and spent a year in Chicago. There was no flowering and beautiful dance when walking, only the coach of Fitzsimmons’s roar "He must not go." He went to Chicago to replace the second-year superstar Michael Jordan. His old man can still hold the pair of slender eyes in each game and score 16 points in 25 minutes. However, after Jordan’s return to the end of the season, his old man had to go to the bench. He played 11 minutes in the third round of the playoffs. In the spring of next year, he has been in Rome, starting his own fight, drug abuse, drug rehabilitation, mixed sorrow cycle of the amateur league.

In the summer of 1998, Dominique Wilkins was smug. He left the NBA at the age of 35, and he returned to Europe, returning at the age of 37, becoming the Spurs' rescuer, averaging 18 points. At the age of 39, he is confident that he can still support a team. But in Orlando, he has only two starters. In 27 games, he scored 135 points. The only gratification: he took $1 million. Compared to the European club, this is a lot of money.

They used to be not so bad.

Before George McCann appeared, George Falcons was the chief attacker in the basketball world. His jump shot made him the first two scoring champions in the NBA.

Before Bob Petty and Chamberlain appeared, Nell Johnston was the offensive machine in the first half of the 1950s. Although the world was ruled by McCain, the three-time scoring champion in 1952-55 was named by Johnston.

The 38-year-old Elvin Hayes, who was in the Rockets, scored the scoring champion in his rookie season.

The singer Archibald, who became the league's worst starter in Milwaukee, became an unprecedented NBA in 1973 in the same year as a scoring champion + assisting king.

Bob McAdoo, the sixth man in Philadelphia after the 1980s, became the scoring champion in his second year, the regular season MVP in the third grade, and the 24-year-old in the fourth grade.

George Gwen, the old man who was swept out of the Spurs to replace Jordan, had a history of 33 points in the NBA (only broken by Clay Thompson this year), and four scoring titles behind Jordan and Chamberlain. title.

Wilkins, the 39-year-old man who swindled in Orlando, was the scoring champion of the 1985-86 season, the first dunk in the history of basketball without any controversial violent aesthetics before Vince Carter.

We know the four-time scoring champion, Allen Iverson, how the Jubilee Year is.

Know how Tracy McGrady's last NBA career has passed.

Why do scoring kings, old age will fall to such a point?

The NBA has three types of players and is not afraid of getting older.

A skilled giant, after the weakening of the offense, there are defense, passing and coping: Duncan, such as Divac, such as David Robinson.

B Solid shooter, because no matter how old, even if the knee is not as good as the early years, the shooting feel will not betray you, you can always be a sub-attack shooter, and you can always cheer on the outside, such as House Cole, Ray Allen.

C is a smart and intelligent player who knows how to change roles and make marrying for teammates, such as Jason Kidd.

The scoring champions are always old.

In the modern scoring champions, there are not many giants and pure shooters: because they all need to feed the ball.

In the 1980s, there were many wing-side scoring madmen: Dantley, Bernard King, Aguirre, Marquez Johnson, Blackman, Vandeweghe... They were all great, but they were not in immortal realm. At the peak of their time, they can use various methods to brush points: counterattack, no ball, shooting around the screen, breaking the ball, holding the ball and singles... So before the advent of the three-pointer era, the typical wing-side scoring champions were mostly:

Skillful off-ball position, amazing explosiveness, speed, ability to shoot, small ball pace, reliable mid-range and near-basket attack ability.

And these will be over time.

A knee injury or a back injury can ruin your explosive power, such as Bernard King.

Simply getting old can make you lose the strength and speed advantages, such as Wilkins.

And the most important:

The scoring champions, unless born to be a shooter type, are difficult to transform and become long-range shooters or assistants.

The NBA has many attacking devils who can't make three-pointers, such as Kevin Johnson, such as Mark Aquilly, such as Bernard King. They all have excellent CIC, but the three points are terrible. Their shots have in common, that is, the jump is extremely fast, the shot is extremely high, and there is not too much sinking and bending. Such a CIC is specially trained to attack.

The disadvantage is naturally: such a shot, the arc is extremely flat, the farther the range, the more problematic.

Moreover, the NBA's scoring champions are a bit helpless.

In the history of NBA, the players who scored the championship and the championship in a single season, there are only: the 1971 hook, the 2000 shark, and the Jordan six champions.

There are no other exceptions.

In fact, before Jordan won the championship as a scoring champion in 1991, "the scoring champion does not win the championship" is a recognized curse.

George Karl once described it as:

"The scoring system of the scoring team is unhealthy."

The ideal basketball is the team's firepower balance. When the team relies too heavily on a scorer, the offense is bound to tilt towards him, resulting in too much ball. In fact, even Jordan did not escape this fate. The triangle attack of the Zen master actually plays such a role: Jordan still has the right to shoot, but the ball is evenly distributed to the team - so that neither will waste Jordan's attack power, nor will the team system be too simple. .

Most of the scoring champions, more or less, are in a fate of "the team has already done this, and only I am going to fire." Most of them are not comprehensive. When they are one day old and can't take the lead, they can't get a job with the role players.

As mentioned above, many scoring kings attempt to transform the shooter or the offensive, but they can't change the shooting position.

Just like the fierce players who have been singled out, they have been riding a horse and have to change to be an infantry. They are usually not as good as those who used to be old-fashioned. Once the scoring demon king dog Robinson, in his later years to the Spurs to go to the risotto, the result is not enough, the defending is not enough, the vote is not stable enough, and had to leave.

This is the home of most scoring champions, who are responsible for sculpting wrinkles and eroding their limbs. They will only encourage the resentment around them in the vertical and horizontal period of the scoring king.

"Independence", "self", "hegemony", each scoring king is more or less, will get similar comments. The world is used to smashing your horse when you are rich, and when you fall, you will fall into the stone.

In the end, their enemies are dignity and habit.

In 1985, the scoring champion Bernard King, who had surgery at the age of 34, was kicked off by the team and retired. "News Day" interviewed him: Why do you still have to undergo surgery and recuperation at the age of 34, in the hope of continuing to fight in the NBA?

"My ideals are two." The 36-year-old said slowly, "One is to get a ring, no; one is to have 20,000 points. When I retired, I got 19,655 points."

"So, when winter arrives, my knee will recover a bit. I will go to the backyard and score 350. That's right. So I can get into the 20,000 club. That's what I always wanted. The reason for continuing to play."

In the 1988 Pistons finals defeated the Lakers, the team will give up the team's chief singles in the next season, and the Jazz has been averaging 30+ madness Dartley for four consecutive years, in exchange for Aguirre. Dantley was furious and went to find the assassin. "I know it's yours!" - Aguer is no better than Dantley, but Aquila is better than Dantley in defense and rebounding. As well, the Pistons had more chances for Rodman to stand at the 3rd position; after losing Dantley, the Pistons won the 1989 and 1990 championships and took the actual tumor status of Dantley.

The four-time scoring champion, George "Iceman" - Gevin, averaged 16 points in the NBA's last season, then he left the NBA, averaging 26 points in Italy; in Spain, averaging 25 points and 1.2 assists.

For many scoring demons, they are used to the world of nothing. They have been carving themselves from spirit to body for the rest of their lives in the direction of the attacking hand.

Their dignity and playing habits make it difficult for them to transform into a role player.

After all, the skills of the blue-collar players, it is also to start from scratch.

Just like a good killer, you won't be dead to be a cook.

In 2018, this will be extrapolated.

In this era, the heads-up scorer has become more of a genius sixth man: such as Jamal Crawford, such as Jamison in his later years.

This era needs to open up the space of the archer group, need to be able to defend the efficiency of the blue collar with the completion of the basket. So as long as you can still shoot, or can be a blue collar, there is always a bowl of rice to eat.

Dirk will be 40 years old, but he can still sign 5 million a year gracefully; Capella's talent is far less than melon, but he has just received 90 million for five years, and he will pay me a month's salary for the next season. It is.

No way. The pure scoring kings who have a big bag will be old and sorrowful.

Melon has always been a pure scorer and has not developed a new path.

It also happened to catch up with a most unfriendly efficiency era for singles scorers.

So it can only be like this.

Think about the benefits:

McAdoo later became the sixth man scoring machine in the Lakers.

Stackhouse was also very happy when the Mavericks were sixth. Many people forgot that he had averaged 30 points in the Pistons single season and ranked second in scoring.

In 2004, the second scoring score in Peja was in 2011, and the Mavericks still got the championship as a substitute.

The movement of melon is not good at the 3rd position in this era; playing the 4th position, his defense is not enough. So, as the late Jamison hit the sixth man, to the end of the game, the small ball lineup at the 4th position, in fact, quite good: the use of the last season Tucker is.

And, to put it a bit straightforward: Perhaps the best way to play the melon singles scoring technical features is really the sixth man in regular time and the finishing lineup.

Because of this era, the heads-up scorer without organizational skills, deadly long-range or tough defense, is only the most free when the sixth person takes two. Not aggrieved him as a fixed-point shooter in a while (refer to Thunder), the effect is not good.

Even, he may rely on this freedom to rekindle the machine?