After getting Paul in many people’s eyes, the Suns this season will become the biggest spoiler in the Western Conference, but after a dozen games, the performance of the Suns is still unsatisfactory, especially in the last four games. Only achieved a record of 1 win and 3 losses, and the recent frequent losses, some fans believe that Paul's offensive performance is due to sluggish performance.
As a 35-year-old veteran, after joining the Suns, Paul's offensive end has indeed seen a significant decline. Although he can contribute 13.8 points, 4.7 rebounds and 9 assists per game, his average points per game have created a career. Career low, 27.7% of the three-point shooting, also created a career low, and the shooting percentage of 43.3%, only slightly better than the rookie season, and the 18-19 season plagued by injuries, even everyone It can be considered that Paul this season has played the worst offensive performance of his career so far.
Is the loss of the Suns really caused by Paul's offensive downturn? For those who have such thoughts, the editor just wants to call them "ball blind" kindly, because they don’t know how important Paul is to this team, and the various data that everyone can see directly is impossible. It specifically mentions Paul's contribution to the game, and it is not possible to mention Paul's value in the game.
If Paul at his peak is relying on data to conquer the league, then Paul has already exceeded the level that the data can reflect. Take Paul’s good brother Tucker for example, Tucker averaged this season He scored only 5.9 points and averaged only 4.7 rebounds per game. However, many teams still have a strong interest in him. Because of his defense in the game and his toughness, he can provide too much for a team. Contributions and help, and these contributions and help are not reflected in the data.
The same is true of Paul now. His mastery of the rhythm in the game and the role he played in organizing the team’s offense, the contribution he made is not represented by the 9 assists. In the games this season so far, Booker has dropped 4.3 points per game and 2.4 assists per game compared to last season.Ayton averaged 3.2 points lower than last season. It can be said that the Suns’ two young cores have performed far less offensively this season than last season. However, in terms of the team’s offensive data, compared with last season. The team hasn't changed too much, and the overall offensive tactics run more smoothly, which is enough to prove how well Paul did in the aspects that the data can't reflect.
And in the game, in addition to some well-known basic data and advanced data, such as scores, rebounds, positive and negative values, efficiency values, etc., there are also some less common data, such as every The contribution value of the players in 48 minutes and so on, and one of them can be relatively intuitive to let everyone realize the value of Paul, that is, in every 100 rounds, Paul's on the court and off the court on both ends of the team.
So far this season, when Paul is off the court, the Suns have lost 10 points per 100 possessions than when Paul was on the court. What is this concept? If Paul is on the court, the Suns can win by 1 point per 100 possessions, then after Paul is off the field, the Suns will lose by 10 points per 100 possessions. It can be seen from this aspect that even if he is 35 years old, even if he makes a shot. The rate has declined, but Paul is still the player the Suns rely on most to win the game.
Now everyone understands what Paul means to the Suns, and the team's loss is not so much Paul's poor performance, but rather because some of the players in the team are too depressed this season. If the Suns want to return to the playoffs this season, or even go further in the playoffs, the 35-year-old Paul is still the team's biggest reliance.
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