The historic moment finally came.
On February 8th, Beijing time, the Lakers played the first game with Thunder at home. 10.2 seconds before the end of the third quarter, LeBlanc James hit freethrow line in the back Jump.
This is James’s 36th point in the game, with a total score of 38388 points in the regular season, officially surpassing Karim-Abdul-Jabar, rising to the first place in history and crowned the winner in history. In the whole game, James scored 38 points, and after this game, he scored 38390 points.
Compared with James and Jabbar, the whole career of Jabbar is as constant as the movement of celestial bodies, without any significant changes, and his attack area and attack methods are consistent. However, in James’s body, we saw the beauty of evolution. At different ages and stages, in different League overall environment and team environment, James is constantly improving himself and switching his playing style.
After 20 years of precipitation, James, who never flaunted himself as the “scorer”, became the scorer of history.
Version 1.0: Breakthrough evolution
James entered NBA in 2003 and scored the first sports goal in his career with China Investment Center. However, in the 2003-04 season, James jumper in the rookie season was very poor. 27 people in the league shot at least 500 two-point shots 7.5 feet away from RIM this season, with James hitting the bottom one. His mid-range hit rate is only 33.9 percent, and the three-point hit rate ranks the third from the bottom among the 200 three-point players.
If James is only a weak jump shot, it is understandable. The key is that James’s breakthrough efficiency was not high at that time. In this season, James hit 57.5 percent in three seconds, 114 people shot at least 200 times in this position, and James ranked 72th.
ESPN data analysis expert Kirk golsbury commented to James at that time: “The average level of the attack under the basket, the mid-range shot target is not high, and the three-point projection is bad.”
However, from the 2004-05 season, James, who had more experience and gradually began to gain weight against promotion, evolved to make a better breakthrough. In the 2004-05 season, James’s hit rate within 7.5 feet of RIM increased by 10% to 64%. James’s penalty score rose from the 11th to the 3rd in the league, and from 2005 to 06, it rose to the 2nd, only lagging behind the “big shark” O’Neal.
Golsbury’s evaluation to James became: “perimeter shot is still weak, and the three-point projection is still bad, but the basket attack is far better than the past.”
Therefore, in the 2005-06 season, James had already scored 31.4 points on average, while he was only 21 years old at that time. In that season, James singles scored 0.896 points per round and 0.939 points per round. He became a super-strong player relying on the top-level basketball attack of the league.
Version 2.0: CTO
Many players will go around after hitting the wall, but James will use evolution to get involved and break through the obstacles every time he hits the wall. In 2007, James led the team to the finals, but he was blocked by the opponent’s exquisite defensive strategy in the series against Spurs. Bruce Bowen’s external line stickers, Tim Duncan’s internal line is blocked, James is not afraid of Bowen’s close-fitting, but afraid of Duncan’s defense.
In the whole series, James made 4 of the 27 shots in the middle of the jump shot, which was only 8 of the 47 shots in total. After the finals were flat, James got in touch with the shooting coach Chris Jane, who helped James improve his shooting posture and improve his shooting.
Jane didn’t let James practice from the three-point ball. He adopted a step-by-step strategy. What’s more, at that time, the league had not entered the three-point era. The training arranged by Jane to James focused on China investment center. Jane’s special training effect on James is remarkable. Since 2007, James’s China investment has improved. In the 2008-09 season, James hit 38.8 percent of his long-distance two-point goals and 39.8 percent in the 2009-10 season.
Relying on the progress of China Investment Center, James’s jump shooting rate in these two seasons has successively set new personal highs, and his attacking power with the ball is even stronger, with the score of each round of singles increasing to 0.959 points, the score of each round is 0.972 points.
Version 3.0: low-level Dacheng
In the second year of the Heat era, James entered version 3.0. The defeat in the 2011 finals was another opportunity for James to evolve. The Lone Ranger drew lessons from the defense strategy against James in Spurs of that year. The Lone Ranger sent small-sized pairs of James, including Kidd and Barya. The center Tyson-Chandler was ready to help defend. As a result, James played a series of low standards, and the first year of the formation of the heat three giants failed to win the championship.
During the off-season in 2011, James worshiped “dream” Hajim olajuwang. He practiced with olajuwang for four and a half days, trained twice a day, and recorded what olajuwang taught him, after going back, I studied hard every day.
In the 2011-12 season, the proportion of James’s low attack reached 14%, scoring 0.946 points per round, and the low attack on the left was his big kill. Between personal attack and passing, James pinched the balance. When he fell into the low-level singles, his coping ability also improved greatly. The hot-fire fixed-point pitcher scored 1.06 points per round when receiving his low-level pass, and the empty-cut player scored 1.167 points.
In the finals, he played Thunder. James’s low attack made Thunder defenders miserable. Thunder changed several defenders and even used bag clip, but was dismantled by James one by one. James swallowed defenders alive, the Heat shooters used their low-level strategy to pass the ball and James finally won the championship.
Version 4.0: three-point progress
In the 2011-12 season, James reduced his three-point shot after his low success, and the average three-point shot in the season was only 2.4 times. In the 2012-13 season, James entered version 4.0 and raised the three-point projection to a new height.
According to James, he conducted strict targeted three-point training. Every shooting training, each point must reach at least 10 shots and 8 shots, otherwise he would punish himself, for example, punish yourself for running.
In the 2012-13 season, James shot a new high of 40.6 percent in his three-point shooting career. Relying on the super-high three points and the high-ranking star, James played the most efficient season in his career, he scored 0.963 points per round and 1.03 points per round for singles, both of which exceeded 94% of the league’s players. In addition, James’s fixed-point shooting reached 1.364 points per round and exceeded 99% of the league’s players. At this time, James was already an almost impeccable super killer.
In the finals and the Spurs series, James hit the key three points in the sixth game and the winning center in the seventh game. He proved his evolution in the best way. In the four seasons of the Heat, James shot more than 40% in jump shots each season.
Version 5.0: Breakthrough in the era of small balls
In 2014, James returned to the Knight. At this time, James was actually a Master of Technology. It seemed that he could not do anything. He seemed to have no change in his senses, every technology is used with ease. But in fact, in the wave of the ball era, James also made adjustments and entered version 5.0. This version of the era is very beneficial to James.
When James returned to Knight, Kevin-loafers joined together, plus Carey Owen and later JR. Smith, Frye and other shooters, the knight attack space is very open, giving James the chance to break through crazily.
Among them, in the 2017-18 season, James played for the Knight in the last season. He scored 534 goals within restricted area near the basket in a single season, the highest league record since the 1999-2000 season, o’Neal scored 571 restricted area near the basket goals in a single season.
Golsbury commented to James: “Curry and Harden are changing the era with three points, but James is chasing Jabbar in the way of ruling the inner line.”
Version 6.0: magic ball style
James experienced several changes in the overall style of the league in 20 years. When James joined the Lakers in 2018, the waves in the three-point era became bigger and bigger, and the proportion of the three-point shots in the league as a whole continued to soar.
For James, who was 34 years old at that time, this was a good thing. On the one hand, James himself has the ability of three-point projection. On the other hand, space opening is good for his breakthrough. Of course, no one expected Pelinka to make James difficult again and again, forcing James to become one of the most reliable three-point pitchers of the Lakers.
In the 2018-19 season, James’s three-point shot proportion reached a career high of 29.9 percent. Since the 2019-20 season, his three-point shot proportion has increased to more than 30 percent, and he has never dropped 30 percent. The distribution of James’s shots at this stage magic ball traces are obvious. During the Lakers, James shot 34.1 percent within 3 feet of the basket, 10-16 feet and 16 feet to three point line, which added up to less than 20 percent and 32.9 percent in three points.
In addition, James also passively unlocked the internal mode at this stage. Due to the low attendance rate of Anthony Davis and the arrival of Wei Shao, James could only play more insiders, and he even had to top the fifth position. Due to the lack of space for the Lakers, the Lakers continued to speed up and fight back. James used counterattack, more air cut and shield to shield people’s attack, and got many relatively easy scoring opportunities. Therefore, the 38-year-old James singles scored 0.809 points per round, but his average score still reached 30 points.
Today, James has surpassed Jabbar to become the scoring king in history, breaking the record of 39 years. This milestone itself is horrible enough. What is more horrible is that it is not his limit.
God knows what form he can unlock when he is in the dusk of his career in the next two or even three or four years.
Never existed before! James crowned the king of Historical Scores