Adams renewed the contract with the grizzly bear in advance. The contract was worth 25.2 million dollars for two years. In the last year of the original contract, Adams will be bound with the grizzly bear in the next three years, with a total contract amount of 43.1 million US dollars.
In today’s era, except for those teams with top insiders, other teams will not have much investment in the fifth place. In principle, the inside of the grizzly bear already has little Jaron Jackson, who is very suitable for the era of little balls. Brandon Clark is still waiting to renew his contract. There is no need for the grizzly bear to renew his contract with Adams in a hurry, but the grizzly bear decided to give Adams the contract.
The grizzly bear renewed Adams in advance. What he valued was not the wild nature of hunting deep into the jungle with his short knife during the offseason. What they valued was Adams’s toughness and contribution on the court. For the grizzly bear, Adams is a symbol of the team’s temperament and an indispensable part of the attack and defense system. With Adams, the grizzly bear is confident.
Last season, the grizzly bears won 56 wins and ranked second in the West. The number of wins in a single season was young pioneer team history. Their offensive and defensive efficiency ranked in the top five in the league. The rise of this youth army was impressive. If the reward is simply based on personal data, Adams can’t even rank in the top 5 of the team. But Adams is the key factor in the success of the grizzly bear.
Let’s recall first, what is the key to the attack and defense of the grizzly bear last season? The grizzly bear is a very distinctive team. The attacking end is not very efficient in ground warfare, but they can rely on the top secondary offensive ability to create more opportunities than their opponents, supplement the quality with quantity. In the battle, the block and tear of the grizzly bear (with Morant as the core) and the hand-in-hand cooperation (with Bain as the core) are the highlights. These combined second attack opportunities, solid cover and passing are Adams’s contributions to the grizzly attack.
On the defensive end, the grizzly bear made mistakes by pushing the periphery, and the second by its excellent rim protection ability. The outside line of the grizzly bear is aggressive and aggressive, that is, it is believed that the inside line can complete the defense behind him. They firmly believe that Adams can do a good job in the basket barrier, and Adams’s performance is worthy of the expectations of his teammates.
Last season, the average penalty area of the grizzly bear field scored 57.6 points, the average second attack score was 18.7 points, the average attack rebound was 14.1, and the three data were the first in the league. Part of the penalty scores of the grizzly bear came from Morant’s breakthrough and part from the second attack. Many of these second attacks were made by Adams. He grabbed 4.6 offensive rebounds in the game, there were nearly four card positions in the game to help teammates rebound.
Throughout the season, Adams’s offensive rebounding was called “phenomenon level”. Adams grabbed 349 offensive rebounds, with an offensive rebound rate of 17.9 percent. Historically, the only players who could play such data in a single season were Moses Malone, Rodman, Jason Williams (not white chocolate) and Drummond. In the new season, Adams will be the 13th player in history to grab at least 2500 offensive rebounds in the first 10 seasons of his career.
Adams was rated “The hardest man in the league” by many peers not because he could withstand Green’s flying kick, because he was huge and firm as a rock, and his cover quality was extremely high. Jimmy Butler once said roughly when evaluating Adams, “XX is too strong. I am serious. He blocked me with cover once. I thought I was dead, is he kryptonite?”
The quality of cover is high, which is another weapon Adams used in the attack. The US media sports news once commented that Morant’s Evolution last season was inseparable from Adams, because Adams used cover to create a lot of breakthrough space for him. The data shows that the data when Morant and Adams were present at the same time is much better than that when Adams was not present. When he and Adams were present at the same time, his field goal percentage, three-point hit rate, penalty score per minute, the team is more efficient in attacking.
“Adams is a top cover,” said Taylor Jenkins, the boss of the grizzly bear. “His ability to cover, shield and remove the ball liberated the ball holder.”
Jenkins believes that Adams’s cover has another effect. When he holds the ball in a high position, he can first use the cover to help Bain block the gap, and then use the pass to create a shot for Bain. Last season, Adams assisted Bain 85 times, Bain received his passing hit rate as high as 55%, of which the three-point hit rate reached. Bain can enter the discussion of the fastest progressive player award without Adams’s help.
On the defensive end, Adams was at the height of 2 meters 11. He was the natural barrier of the inside of the grizzly bear. Last season, the grizzly bear restricted the opponent’s basketball to hit the second place in the league. In the face of those teams with high centers, such as Nuggets, 76ers, Bucks, etc., Adams’s counterposition value is still extremely high.
In today’s era, traditional centers are indeed more and more like endangered dinosaurs. Many teams will use small balls to target traditional centers and compress their living space. Many people have formed a mindset. When it comes to traditional centers, they will think of “Roll Call tactics”, which is also a reason why many people do not understand the grizzly bear’s renewal of Adams in advance.
But in fact, it was also a traditional center, and Adams had never been targeted so miserably like Gobel. For example, Adams lifted the health and security agreement and returned to the starting line-up, when he was present at the grizzly bear, he took a certain advantage. In the fourth game, when Adams was present, the grizzly bear had a net victory of 13 points, and in the fifth game, the data reached 32 points. In the sixth game, the grizzly lost 14 points, but when Adams was present, the grizzly lost only 6 points.
In the face of the opponent’s small-sized lineup, Adams can continue to contribute with height, response, defense, and competition. The most important thing is that with him, the inside of the grizzly bear was insured, because little Jackson’s foul control ability was really poor, last season, he was the third in the league with 3.5 fouls per game. He received 22 fouls in 185 minutes in the series of warriors and could not be guaranteed to be present for a long time.
With these, Adams is already an indispensable member of the grizzly bear, and this may not be the ultimate version of Adams.
According to Jenkins, Adams further carved out the three-point projection capability during the off-season this year. Although Adams’s regular season and playoffs added up to only 1 out of 17 three-point shots, Jenkins has already stated that he will give Adams the green light for three points.
Adams didn’t need to be the high-yielding space center of Grand Lopez. It was not his biggest advantage to vote for three points. However, if Adams can turn the three-pointer into a secret weapon and cause cold damage to his opponent, his value in the grizzly attack system will be higher.