Today, the Trailblazers officially revealed a piece of news. Considering the team’s slim hope of entering the play-off, in order not to let Lillard be hit again, they decided to let Lillard miss the rest of the season. The Trailblazers undoubtedly put themselves on the fire for cooking. Before April of the season, the Trailblazers had begun to stop. Then, why did the Blazers who introduced jerrami Grant last summer go out so early?
According to Chris Haynes of bleachers sports, the Trail Blazers are seriously considering letting Lillard handle calf injuries cautiously due to the hopeless pursuit of the playoffs this season. The Trail Blazers currently rank only 13th in the West with a record of 32 wins and 43 losses, and there are still 5 wins from the 10th in the West. They cannot catch up in a short period of time, so they let Lillard consider taking a vacation in advance.
If we only look at the opening record of this season, no one can imagine that the Blazers would suffer this great disaster. Even before the dust settles, Ming Jin would receive troops. In the 4 games of the season, the Pioneers kept winning all, and hit the 14th game with 10 wins and 4 losses. It can be said that the start was perfect.
But from the 15th game, the Blazers began to deliver to Huagai, winning only one game in 8 consecutive games. After another 6 wins in 8 games, it was followed by 2 wins and 9 losses in 11 consecutive games. The record completely bid farewell to 50% of the winning rate and reduced to less than 50% of the winning rate. After 9 wins and 7 losses in the next 16 games, the Blazers encountered a nightmare season when they raised the winning rate to 50%. In the last 18 games, they only won 4 wins and 14 losses, completely saying goodbye to 50% Wins, completely saying goodbye to the playoffs, and completely saying goodbye to this season.
Injuries are the roadblock of the trailblazers this season. Lillard opened 12 sessions in batches, and the Blazers were 5 wins and 7 losses. Anfini-Simmons concentrated on 7 pauses in the season, with the Blazers winning 3 and losing 4. Nurkich recuperated twice, once two wins and one loss in three consecutive sessions at the beginning of the season, and once 14 consecutive recuperations in the middle of the season, with the team winning 6 and losing 8. In recent games, the Blazers not only let Lillard rest, but also took a rest for Simmons, nurkich and Grant. The team looked like a horse in Nanshan, which was very like a holiday.
Then, why did the Blazers still throw in the towel so quickly when they scored 20 + points in the three-person season?
The reason is that the defensive efficiency of the pioneers is only the 27th (118.2), and although the offensive efficiency reaches 115.6 points (Ranking the 10th), the net efficiency of the pioneers is 2.6 points less. On the defensive side, the Blazers made the opponent’s total hit rate reach 48.8 percent, and the opponent’s three-point hit rate reached 37.5 percent, ranking the 5th and 4th in the league respectively. Although the pioneers suppressed the opponent’s total shot and three-point shot to 87.1 (21st) and 32.5 (24th) respectively, the overall data is still considerable. In addition, with the opponent’s assists (26.4 times ranked in the league’s bottom 2) and steals (7.8 times ranked in the league’s bottom 5), The Trailblazers’ defense was really not half a star.
On the offensive side, the total hit rate of the Blazers was 47.6%, ranking the 12th in total, but the average shot was only 84.7 times, ranking the third from the bottom. However, among the 84.7 total shots, there were 35.3 three-point shots (ninth place), accounting for 40% of the total shots (seventh place in parallel), the hit rate is 36.7%(the 10th place), which raises the offensive efficiency. The real field goal percentage of 59.4% also ranks 8th in the league.
Among other options, backboards, assists, steals, and cap pioneers are not good. The Blazers of total rebounding, defensive rebounding and offensive rebounding ranked 28th, 27th and 23th respectively, ranking 22nd in assists, 24th in steals and 21th in cap. It’s really terrible.
With such a bad performance, it is necessary to match the slow pace of 98.1 (ranked seventh from the bottom of the league in parallel). The situation of the pioneers attacking can be imagined. Throughout the game of the Blazers, most of the time, the attacking end is independent, the defensive end is scattered, the opponent’s shooting drills, and the team is fighting the iron.
The Blazers were so bad that they were going to point the spearhead at coach Billups. In the two seasons he took office, the Blazers all missed the playoffs, while the former Terry Stotz was in office for 9 years, reaching the playoffs eight times, reaching the division finals one time and reaching the division semi-finals two times. Compared with his predecessor, Billups’s qualifications are still too shallow.
The most important thing is that he has been teaching for 2 years. He has not been able to let the pioneers establish a complete defense system, but this cannot be all blamed on him. The Trail Blazers only pay attention to attack in the direction of team building, and the problem of head pain, foot pain and foot pain is also very prominent. Over the years, they rarely think of finding some defensive talents for the Trail Blazers, and Billups is also stretched.
Teams with low defensive efficiency can still find a foothold in the western district of a strong team like Lin as long as the offensive efficiency is shining. The king of this season is an example. The defensive efficiency of the team is the 26th in the league, but the offensive efficiency is the 1st. Pioneers may follow suit. Choosing a suitable head coach is the top priority. In the case that rosters cannot be cataclysmic, changing the coach is as reblading. The pioneers who supplemented the flanks were still promising under the leadership of Lillard, Simmons, Grant and nurkich.
(Mao Mao dad/supine support)