The new season will start soon. After the two opening battles on the first day, there will be 12 games the next day. In addition to the Clippers and the Bucks, a total of 28 teams will appear in the first two days, among which the Pelicans are very eye-catching.
This big-mouthed bird is ready to go. If it can keep healthy throughout the season, it will be a very threatening team in the West. I boldly guess they will go directly to the playoffs and do not have to play the play-offs like last season. What is the reason why we should watch Pelican? Summarize the following three points:
First, Zion returned healthily.
Second, mccorham increased the outside fire.
Third, take the second half of last season.
The Pelicans last season were mixed, full of disappointment and surprise. What was disappointed was that the injury had a significant impact. Zion did not play all season. Ingram experienced three long periods of absence. The surprise was that in the second round, a treasure like Herbert Jones was found, moreover, under the unfavorable situation of the opening season, he actually entered the playoffs.
Pelican’s first 13 games were 1 win and 12 loss, and everyone thought they were finished. I didn’t expect to turn over from the beginning of December. After the transaction in February came to mycaulm, it was even more powerful, finally, he entered the play-in, eliminated Spurs and Clippers, and entered the playoffs for the first time in 4 years.
Due to the return of Zion from injury, the Pelicans in the new season are eye-catching. This is a very characteristic team. Micorham added the original shortcomings. He said that as long as he watched the Pelicans, you will be excited.
Since Zion hadn’t played for a whole year, he generally doubted his weight and thought that he would be found at any time due to injuries. But weight is also the “core asset” of Zion. It is because of his heavy weight that he is so special.
The opening match of Pelican season is basketable nets. Durant has highly praised Zion’s ability, saying that he is “one of one”, which means that his type is unique and has never been seen before:
“You have already seen that kind of team members with a height of 201. They can run and jump freely, but they can’t reach the level of Zion at all. You have seen players like Jason mecil. I didn’t say they were as tall as Zion, but they were all people who were not tall but played inside. Zion is also of this type. Like the former Rodney Rogers, I have seen too many people who are 198 tall but play the position of a big man. Barkley is this kind of man with a round waist. However, with Zion’s athletic ability, he directly threw them several streets. In this comparison, he was unique.”
Because of its excellent reaction, bounce ability and huge weight, Zion will have a dislocation advantage for most teams. For example, in the first battle against basketable nets, Zion was very worthy of attention to Ben Simmons on the 4th position. Simmons was tall and Zion was strong, simmons, who has been selected for the best defensive period, may not be able to bear the collision of Xi ‘an.
Pelican was full of expectation for Zion, even if the champion only played 85 games in the first three years, and his knees, ankles and metacarpal bones were full of risks of injury, still decided to renew the contract with him for 5 years in advance.
Who can get the 2019-level rookie to renew the contract in advance has been announced today. Zion, Morant and Galland won the 5-year big order several months ago, it shows that they are the three best so far. In the first round of 2019, the total number of people who renewed the contract in advance reached 11, setting a record high. In addition, two players without draft picks and one player in the second round, a total of 14 people got the “graduation certificate”.
Pelican also had scruples about Zion. After all, his weight was too heavy, so he added one in the contract. The maximum weight must be less than 295 pounds (134 kilograms), otherwise he could not get the full salary, at present, his registered weight is 284 pounds (129 kilograms). On the contrary, if Zion successfully controls weight, the relevant data is up to standard, and the Pelican record is up to standard, Zion can get up to 0.231 billion dollars.
The signing of Zion’s contract shows that Pelican not only wants to take advantage of his weight, but also doesn’t want to miss big things because of his weight. In the preseason match against the Heat, Zion broke his foot and let Pelican have a false alarm. His foot is fine now and he is sure to play against basketable nets in the opening match.
The huge body of Zion determines the characteristics of pelicans, that is, bombarding rim. In the 2020-21 season when he was elected as an all-star, Zion directly attacked the basket 12 times per game, with a success rate of 70%.
In fact, pelicans have been one of the teams with the least three points in the past five seasons. Even if Zion didn’t play last season, Pelicans only ranked seventh from bottom in 32 three points per game, the 10.6 columns enter each game are the third to the bottom, and the hit rate is the fourth to the bottom. They will play a lot of offensive and defensive conversion, and the half-time battle will also focus on attacking the basket. You can say that it is a problem that their three points are not good, but it also shows their strength in attacking the inside line from the other side.
In order to improve this imbalance, Pelicans bought mccorum halfway last season, which was a very successful business, because mccorum’s career three-point shot percentage was as high as 39.6%, with an average of 6 shots. When you have a strong Insider, there will be more opportunities outside the line, so micaulm is easier here than in Polant.
Another advantage of getting mccorham is that this team does not have a real point guard, while C.J. The Blazers were also half a point guard. After Lillard came off, he was the main control and the number one scorer on the court.
Pelicans started with grand Varan, Zion, Ingram, Herbert Jones and McCullum, of which Zion played 4, but from the back court to the front court it was usually driven by him. Therefore, only then will there be some American pool comments that Zion played as a point guard. After arriving at the front court, Ingram handed over receive the ball and started the first attack, thus a series of tactics were launched. Now, such cooperation will be richer than before by joining mccorum.
This is why Pelicans continued 2 years and 64 million years in advance with micorem early this year.
Of course, everything has not started yet, and all the new season conjectures are on paper.
The Pelicans on paper are not mature teams like warriors either. Their obvious weakness is the overall defense. Using 100 rounds to calculate, they lost only the last 11 points in each game last season, only better than the Lakers at that time.
However, Pelican’s defense is expected to change in the new season. The first reason is that coach Willy Green emphasizes defense very much, and the second is that last season, the defender Herbert Jones was harvested. Jones was selected in the fifth place in the second round. He showed outstanding individual defense ability in the rookie season, and he had a broad vision and a keen sense. He ranked third in the league for 130 steals all season. What pelicans have to do now is to unify Zion’s empty-making ability under the basket with Jones’s oppression ability on the outside line to form an efficient defense system for the whole team. As long as the defense goes up, the results will advance by leaps and bounds.