Christian Wood raised his right arm a little embarrassed and looked at Spencer dinwaidi. He just delivered a three-point assist for the latter, which expanded the leading edge of the Lone Ranger in the fourth quarter to double digits.
But Wood raised his hand not to celebrate, it was a silent apology.
Wood knew that his passing violated an unwritten NBA rule.
In fact, he threw a “grenade” to his teammates, because as we all know, the hit rate is very low when there is little time limit left for the attack.
This is a rare case, because in this case, passing the ball will be considered selfish and may cause contradictions in the team, usually complaining and attacking negatively. The “grenade” that was too obvious was spread, and the passer often had to admit his mistake publicly, just like the gesture Wood made to Ding Weidi in the game of Lone Ranger against Thunder at home on December 12.
But Wood’s method of transmission is really too much. At that time, the offensive rebound fell into his hands, and the attack time was reset to 14 seconds. He began to pick one by one. From arch top to the left wing, he carried the ball 8 times. When it arrived for the 8th time, Thunder rookie forward Jay Williams reached out and interfered. The rhythm of wood disturbed. When saving the ball, he caught a glimpse of Ding Weidi near the logo of the midfield and gave him the hot potato.
Ding Weidi’s attack time was less than 1 second receive the ball, while Thunder’s Xie Yi giljez-Alexander was beside him. Ding Weidi moved to the right, creating a space barely at 29 feet.
When the ball was still flying in the air, Wood raised his hands over his shoulders and shrugged his shoulders to show that the ball was “mine”. When the ball rebounded from the rebound board and entered the net, Ding Weidi did the same action.
However, whether the ball is scored or not, Ding Weidi will not hold Wood. In the 2014-15 season, when he was still a rookie, he already understood that this was the unwritten rule of NBA. In an emergency, the main shooting creators of the team (at that time, the Lone Ranger was Dong Qiqi and Ding Weidi playing this role) can become safety valves in an emergency. (Rookie is also OK, which means teammates can force them to make difficult shots.)
“Teammates can pass the ball to both of us, or if Jadden Hardy (rookie) is on the court, it is no problem to pass it to him. Just pass it!” Ding Weidi said with a smile. (Later he was sent to basketable nets in the Kerry-Owen transaction.)
“When you are the creator of the team’s shooting opportunities, it is different-the money earned by the rookie obviously cannot compare with this. But I will still do it. To be honest, I don’t care so much. Just pass it to me. Next time I will vote correctly.”
The so-called unwritten rules are generally like this: if you have been spending time at fengshui ball and have not found any space for your teammates, you can make it difficult, instead of passing the Thunder insurance ring to his teammates, he lowered his hit rate. According to ESPN data, last season, the entire NBA players played against each other receive the ball with only two seconds or less in the attack time limit, with a hit rate of only 29.7 percent.
“Although it shouldn’t be said like this, this kind of situation still happens, and sometimes the ball can be thrown into it,” Sun star Devon Booker said in an interview. “But no one likes this kind of passing, enjoying this kind of shooting…… Even throwing position cannot be guaranteed in five seconds. This kind of ball will definitely make people angry.”
Five seconds refers to receive the ball when the attack time limit is only 0.5 seconds, which causes the player to fight against the defender with a deformed posture.
Many players have passed spicy and hot because of this grenade, which has caused many punches such as rolling their eyes and pouting.
“The veteran will definitely say, ‘As a shooter, don’t pass it to me at the last second, ‘” said Jason Kidd, the coach of the Lone Ranger. “Maybe this is already a written rule, anyway, it has always been there.”
However, in fact, the people who spread this grenade ball are often the stars, after all, the people who shoulder the most creative responsibility are also them. In the past ten years, the five players who made the most difficult shots for their teammates in the last two seconds of the attack time limit were all Hall of Fame levels: Russell-Westbrook, Damian-Lillard, Chris Paul, james Harden and LeBlanc James.
To narrow the scope to the past two seasons, two top young organizers can rank in the top three: East Chech and Pacers All-Star defender tyres Halliburton. (The first place is still weishao.)
Therefore, even if teammates have complaints about their hearts, they cannot vent them publicly.
“There are levels between players, so it depends on who sent the grenade and who they should complain to,” Pelican defender CJ-mccolum said.
Of course, these players will also give out vacant opportunities for their teammates at the time of the whistle. Sometimes it is absolutely understandable that they inadvertently put their teammates in a dilemma. It is generally believed that a player always keeps his hit rate at the expense of his teammates.
“You can’t do this on purpose,” Ding Weidi said. “You can’t say I gave up. You can back the pot!”
In some cases, players will not get angry, but they have not found a vacancy. Players who do not want to receive the ball may make a strange cut at the moment of reading, in order to avoid the passing of teammates.
If you want a good hit rate, players will occasionally use other methods. One is to hold the ball for a long time, which is similar to the practice of waiting until the end of a game and then shooting at a long distance. Another is pretending not to know where it is and still passing the ball. (24-second violation is counted as a team error, not an individual.)
Fans and media may be fooled or may not pay attention to these details. But no matter whether you learn this unwritten rule from a veteran like Ding Weidi’s rookie, or only know a rough idea, the players all know it.
“To be honest, I don’t know what the specific rules are,” said the Grizzly Giant Jia Morant. No veteran specifically told him why grenade passing was not popular. “But this must be a mistake. Even if my teammates were involved, I would say I didn’t pass it well, and they did well. He got the score, then everyone was happy.”
“But Yogueta throw an ugly air ball or fail to make a successful shot, I will definitely apologize. In most cases, I will choose to do it myself.”
This kind of passing is not popular in NBA. The main reason is that the hit rate is linked to salary, which often becomes a key negotiation issue in contract negotiation.
To say how the hit rate affects earning money (especially for role players), it has also become the current basketable Nets forward Dorian Finney Smith, who is playing Owen’s trading chips, which is the best example. His three-point shooting rate in the first three seasons of his career was, and then he signed a three-year and 12 million-year renewal with the Lone Ranger.
After working hard to hone his skills, Finney Smith hit 38.9 percent in the next three years and accepted a renewal offer of 56 million dollars during the 2021-22 season, that was the highest salary that lone ranger could offer him at that time.
Although he is not a real shooting creator, Finney Smith claimed that he was willing to accept the “grenade. He has evolved into a typical 3D player, and his main task at the offensive end is to shoot receive the ball-this kind of player sometimes cannot touch the ball for a long time. Therefore, in his view, occasionally receiving the passing of reading seconds is not without benefits.
“You can throw this kind of ball without paying attention to the result,” he said. “If you haven’t touched the ball on the court for a long time, it’s good to play this kind of ball.”
The four-year contract has just begun. Of course, Finney Smith said it easily.
Mccolum is another player who can accept the occasional grenade. He signed a renewal just before this season, and his total career income will be close to 0.3 billion dollars. He is a pure scorer, believing in the old saying that never create shooting opportunities you don’t like, but if you don’t shoot, it will time out, he still enjoyed throwing the ball out.
“I know someone will worry about the hit rate and want to maintain efficiency,” mccolum said. “But I am people who are very keen on shooting.”
“Therefore, for the good grenade passed over, I am don’t mind.”
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