Just watch Morant Edwards play basketball and have fun. If you really learn skills, you have to see Prichard.

Boston Celtics player Payton Pritchard won the "Best Sixth Man" honor this season. During the voting session, he won 82 first-round tickets, 13 second-round tickets and 5 third-round tickets from the 100 judges, thus defeating Beasley (279 points) and Jerome (91 points) with an absolute advantage of 454 points.

The guard position is the most competitive position in the NBA. From various professional leagues such as the NBA and the G League, to the street community stadiums in the United States, there are all kinds of guards with unique skills. The genius point guards Campazzo and Spanoris, who are in the European basketball and FIBA ​​world, cannot get opportunities in the NBA. As a white guard who is only 1.85 meters tall, Pritchard not only enters the NBA but also gains a foothold. To this day, Pritchard has become the strongest substitute combat power in the league. This must be a high-profile. As the saying goes, Morant and Edwards play for fun. Really learning skills must also look at Pritchard. His success has set an example and pointed out the direction for small guard players, including China. In order to let everyone know better, today's NBA test will bring you Pritchard's data analysis.

This season Prichard played point guards 99% of the time, accounting for only 27% of the inside scores, and accounting for as much as 72% of the 3-point line scores, of which autonomous scores account for 40% and assisted scores account for 60%. To put it simply, Prichard is a substitute point guard who serves as a connection section organization task, and at the offensive end, he serves as an outside fire point, able to play ball and off the ball. Then we follow this feature to see the efficiency of completing these tasks.

In terms of organization, Pritchard averaged 51 balls per game, ranking fourth among the Celtics, 85 behind Tatum, 73 of Derek White, and 57 of Brown, leading Ju Holiday 46 times. It can be seen that because Ju Holiday's physical fitness has declined year by year and needs to take into account defensive tasks, Pritchard began to share his organizational tasks.

Average 38 passes per game, ranking third among the Celtics, only 57 behind Tatum and 56 times White, averaged 3.5 assists per game, with a pass assist rate of 9.3%. This assist efficiency is relatively average, because his own offensive score and threat of holding the ball are not high, so it is difficult to attract the opponent's defensive focus. The main task is to safely pass the ball through the half court and then successfully hand it over to other scoring strong points. Don't underestimate this skill. The Chinese men's basketball guard is difficult to achieve this.

Because he is small, he has a ball-holding breakthrough and is his main skill to create scoring opportunities for his teammates. He has completed a total of 432 breakthroughs this season and ranked third among the Celtics, 797 behind Brown and 741 times and Tatum. His breakthrough pass rate is as high as 60%, which means that after the breakthrough, he has a 60% choice to pass the ball, and the remaining 40% of the box is his own box. Although he is small, he has a very good ball quotient in breaking through the box. He hits 87 balls in 137 attacks and hits 87 balls in the box with a shooting percentage of 63.5%. In the NBA, he breaks through the box with a shooting percentage of more than 55% is efficient, while Prichard is super efficient.

In addition, 37 shots with 70 shots with a half-scratch shot with a shooting percentage of 52.9% is also an excellent level. There are many explanation videos on the Internet that specifically introduce Prichard's breakthrough in the frame attack technology. He used speed breakthrough to establish his position advantage and immediately moved horizontally to block the opponent's return to the defense route, and then used physical confrontation to establish a layup space. He used throwing and hooking techniques to make the opponent's blocking look beyond the reach. His playing style seems simple, but it is all reflected in the details of the ball quotation and technology use.

His basic dribbling skills are super solid, and many people should have watched his garage dribbling video. When a player's physical talent is not enough, he can only make up for it through the most hard training and near-transformed technical skill. Prichard's breakthrough error rate is only 4.2%, which is a very outstanding level, with an assist-return error ratio of 3.36.

Judging from the overall organizational data, Pritchard is not a passer master, but he has completed the organizational tasks conscientiously. At the same time, he uses high-ball quotients to complete efficient layups whenever he has the chance. In terms of outside firepower projection, he averaged 7.8 three-pointers per game, which is the third outside firepower point in the Celtics, only 10.1 behind Tatum and 9.1 by White. Mazula's pioneering "Death Five Outside" style made Prichard feel in the water. He received a huge bonus under Mazula's tactical system. Other Celtics stars attracted defensive power and benefited a lot from his open passes.

Bole has the vision of exploring the Thousand Lima, but the Thousand Lima needs to be of good quality. Prichard ranks 7th in the league in 389 catches from outside the three-point line (Basley 568 times, White 457 times, Champayeni 420 times, Klay Thompson 410 times, Keegan Murray 406 times, Mikal Bridges 398 times), with a shooting percentage of 173 goals as high as 44.5%. This hit rate ranks second among the top 50 players in the league's three-point shooting list, only lower than Isaiah Joe's 45.4%. He is the most stable and trustworthy outside firepower point in the Celtics and even the entire league. This ability will naturally win the full trust of teammates.

As mentioned earlier, this super high efficiency also has the bonus of the Celtics. Because the team has multiple outside firepower points such as Tatum and White, the opponent's defensive power will definitely lose sight of the other, so Prichard can get many open spaces that are almost shooting training to go out.

However, once he entered the individual three-pointer mode, Prichard's height disadvantage was immediately highlighted. He made 80 goals with his personal three-pointer with the ball, and his shooting percentage was 34.8%, which was barely qualified. Through the comparison, it can be seen that there is a huge gap between holding the ball and receiving the ball. He was blocked 38 times and ranked third in the Celtics. The shortcomings in his personal ability and physical talent made it difficult for him to go further and become a starting player..

In addition, the ability to win heavy responsibilities is inseparable from the defensive end. Logically speaking, such a small man will definitely become the opponent's key target of attack. This season, the opponent averages 9.3 shots in front of him per game and ranks 8th in the Celtics. The opponent averages 4.1 goals in his defense, limiting the opponent's shooting percentage to 45.6%, and reducing the opponent's shooting percentage by an average of 1.2 percentage points. Although this defensive efficiency is not outstanding, it can at least prove that he is not a paper defense.

Then how can he reduce the frequency of attacks on him? It is to use a lot of forward-circling and entangled defense to consume the opponent's physical fitness. Although it has a huge disadvantage in height, it can ensure that the defense is not lost. It has excellent screening ability in pick-and-roll defense. It is difficult for the ball holder to get rid of his defense. The average running distance of 3,379 meters per game ranks 5th in the Celtics, and completes 110 DEFLECTIONS ball deflection ranks 5th in the Celtics.

As a substitute player, the most important characteristic is that he has microwave attributes and bench gangster attributes. Fans can see that Pritchard tries his best as soon as he comes on the court, and can infect his teammates with his own fighting spirit, play a role in changing the rhythm of the game and rewriting the game situation. He completed 70 steals and ranked fourth in the Celtics. One data that reflects the positive attitude of the game is opportunity ball competition, with a total of 60 chance ball competitions ranked seventh in the league.

Finally, the data of Pritchard is summarized. If a guard player with relatively average physical talent wants to play in the NBA and gain a foothold, he needs to have the following conditions, solid basic skills, skilled operation and control, stable organizational skills, excellent ball maker, and superb shooting ability. Although individual shooting with the ball will be limited, the shots that come out of opportunities must be held in hand, and the attitude of hard work is hard, and try to maximize the defensive efficiency.

Talent is the starting point, and hard practice reaches the peak. When you see the highlights of NBA players, it is inevitable that you will make repeated hard practices to the extreme. There is no shortcut to playing basketball well. Those who want to take the shortcut or dominate the low-end game will fall and lose their heads when they reach a high level. Only by practicing every technical movement into muscle memory and persevering into a habit of day and night can you change your destiny and succeed. I hope the Chinese men's basketball team can appear our own Prichard as soon as possible.