For professional athletes, injuries are the biggest enemy. Some talented players suffered injuries that affected their careers at the beginning of their careers, but they finally overcame them and rose against the trend. When Fultz was mentioned, the fans also felt deeply. Fortunately, he came from behind and was not further widened.
Fultz was also in high spirits. When we discuss this player, we need to start from different levels. After all, he is of great representative significance.
If we want to say that the second decade of the 21st century is one of the craziest teams, the 76ers are definitely on the list. They refresh people's understanding of the rotten again and again, with the aim of fishing for the top pick to complete the reconstruction. The 76 ers did get what they wanted, but they became a rookie cemetery to some extent. The 16-17 season was the last year of their bad performance, and they won the top draft again.
The 17-year draft is also full of talents. With Simmons as the top defender, the 76ers wanted to choose another backcourt player, so they gave up Tatum and took Fultz directly. The 76ers seem to be a cursed team, and all the rookies have to experience large and small injuries at the beginning of their careers, so that they miss a lot of games. Starting with Embiid, the crispy skin, this tradition continued.
After Fultz was selected, he only played 14 games in the rookie season, and the data of averaging 7.1 points, 3.8 assists and 3.1 rebounds is not like the answer sheet handed over by the No.1 scholar. No one expected that Fultz's strange injuries also affected his performance in the second season. There are only 19 games played, and the average data per game has not increased much compared with the rookie season. The 76 ers who have completed the reconstruction also regard him as a negative asset.
At that time, the 76ers regarded Fultz as a favored son of heaven, and his talent could support this title, which is why the 76ers did not hesitate to pay a high price to sign the first prize. Unfortunately, the 76ers didn't have the patience to wait for Fultz to get rid of the injury completely, and finally abandoned him and sent him to the Magic. For Fultz, this is a relief.
This season is Fultz's third year in the league. Tatum, Adebayor and Mitchell have all entered the All-Star. After two seasons of hibernation, Fultz finally got rid of his injuries and began to fulfill his talents.
1. Magic Backcourt Engine
From the configuration of the magic lineup, it is also a team with multiple delivery points. Vucevic and Gordon can play together in the frontcourt, and there are a group of ball guards or strikers on the periphery. After being transformed by Magic, Fultz has also become a strong engine in the backcourt of the team.
Fultz became the top scholar for his own reasons. The picture he presented in the game was enough to be attracted by his talent. If you want to be the engine of a team, you are also quite talented. Fultz, who pushes the offensive and defensive switch, can accurately judge whether to end it by himself or give it to his teammates during high-speed travel. There is no problem for NBA players to end this piece on their own, but if they find teammates during the transition, it will test the ability of the ball pusher. For Fultz, this is a handy thing.
Even in the half-court positional warfare, Fultz can drive the team's attack in his own way. Fultz's first move was to hold the ball and pick and roll. After the start of the pick and roll with his teammates, the whole team's attack started, and Fultz could play it out. Of course, Fultz can also distribute the ball to the open teammates after being assisted or double-defended in the process of holding the ball and impacting the basket.
Fultz is more inclined to dual-ability guards, and there are still some gaps with those traditional point guards, but in the Magic team, it is enough to eat these. This season, 5.2 assists also set a new career high. With a round share of 2.5%, the assist rate of 25.2% is also excellent enough, and the assist error ratio of 2.3 is also within the tolerable range.
2. The ending mode is worth discussing
Fultz is a player who entered the league in the small ball era, but he has the ending mode of an old-school player. It is also a rare thing to see these technical movements in Fultz.
Among the most commonly used attack types in Fultz, the ball-holding pick-and-roll court has 5.6 rounds, accounting for 41.5% of the total rounds. However, he is not efficient in holding the ball and picking and rolling, and he can only get .86 points per round, which is only better than 56.8% of the players in the league. Holding the ball to pick and roll itself is a way of looking for misplaced attacks, which can give small players a better space to shoot or impact the basket.
Fultz, after all, is a backcourt player, with 63.4% of his unaided hits and only 36.6% of his assisted hits. To say that Fultz has a high frequency of assists, it is 2 feet away. After all, Fultz can serve as a fixed-point jumper in these areas. If you are less than 19 feet, you will be in Fultz's autonomous end zone, and so will the near basket and the basket.
There are many magic tees, and there are abundant resources to hold the ball. Fultz sometimes has to let them take the lead in the attack by giving the ball away, running without the ball or doing some fixed-point projection responses. This season, Fultz's catch and projection ratio is 13.9%, but the hit rate is a little low, only 25.5%. Of course, Fultz's catch projection was concentrated outside the three-point line, and his hit rate was only 25.3%.
Fultz plays more with the ball, which is in line with his position. This season, Fultz holds the ball and shoots 33.8%, averaging 3.6 shots and hitting 41.7%. Fultz's ability to hold the ball and project has yet to be tapped, and the potential is still great.
3. The trend of anti-magic spheroidization
Magic spheroidization has already become a trend, and supernovae like Dancsics are all close to it, but Fultz has the trend of anti-magic spheroidization. Fultz has the ability of not shooting dead angles, which also distinguishes him from the magic ball players.
This season, Fultz's shooting frequency is 34.3% and his shooting percentage is 65.1%. The close-range two-point shooting frequency is 19.7% and the hit rate is 42.9%. The medium-range shooting frequency is 17.6%, and the hit rate reaches 41.2%. The long-range two-point shooting frequency is 1.9% and the hit rate is 44.6%. Fultz's anti-ball, which also gives him the space to reduce the dimension in the middle distance, instead of betting outside the three-point line and under the basket.
Summary: Fultz's talent on the offensive end is beginning to show, and he still has great potential to tap. As the saying goes, a good meal is not afraid of being late. As long as Magic has patience, Fultz can definitely grow into a top backcourt.
When Fultz was selected in the first overall position, in addition to his great offensive potential, the defensive end also had attractive talent. Fultz is 1.91 meters tall, but his wingspan is 2.8 meters, and he also weighs 95 kilograms. Such a static talent is destined to make him a high-quality defender, and his height and strength can match any type of backcourt. More importantly, Fultz's mobility is extremely strong, which adds weight to the defensive end.
In the game, Fultz also showed a strong defensive dominance, and he could give enough interference and physical confrontation to the opponent's ball bearer. His long arm can interfere with the opponent's shooting vision and even take the ball directly from their hands. Of course, perimeter players have to provide some cooperation, and Fultz can do this very well. In addition, Fultz can also make a great contribution when chasing people without the ball.
judging from the counterpoint data, it seems that it is not very friendly to Fultz. Generally speaking, when playing against Fultz, the hit rate will increase to 48.5%. When defending the opponent's three-point projection, the hit rate rose to 41.8%, which is already a terrible data. When defending the two-point projection, the other side also has a hit rate of 53.8%. It seems that there is no area that Fultz can control, and the players who play against him can eat jiaozi in any position.
Fultz's defensive willpower is strong and his attitude is quite correct. This season, Fultz has guaranteed a defensive efficiency of 15.1, ranking 93rd in the league. When Fultz was present, the team lost 112.3 points every 1 rounds, and when he was not present, he lost 17.3 points every 1 rounds.
Summary: Fultz's defensive end also has great potential to be tapped, and magic should also be carefully cultivated. After all, such a team can be the cornerstone of team building.
A number of players have broken through in the 17th session, and Fultz has come back strongly this season, gradually catching up with the players of the same session. For Fultz, he also has some things to change.
1. Three-point shooting percentage
As a backcourt player, three-point shooting is one of the core weapons, otherwise it will be targeted defense. This season, Fultz averaged 1.8 three-pointers per game, and only hit .5 of them, with a shooting rate of 25.4%. This number of three-point shots and three-point shooting percentage is indeed a little lower, which is not standard for defenders. Fultz is not Simmons, he has a certain projection basis, and it is no problem to develop three points.
2. Control mistakes and improve the free throw percentage
Sooner or later, Fultz will become the core of Magic's back court attack. In this case, Fultz has to pay more attention to his own mistakes. In fact, Fultz's mistakes have been well controlled this season, with only 2. mistakes per game. If the ball rights continue to increase in the future, this point needs to be maintained.
On the other hand, Fultz's free throw problem is also serious. Let's not talk about the number of free throws per game, but we can't compliment him on his free throw percentage of 72.3% this season. Fultz needs to improve his free throw percentage, and it is more reasonable to increase it to more than 8%.
Fultz is only 22 years old this year, and she is still relatively young. Magic has enough patience to wait for him to grow up. After all, there is not much development in Fultz.