NBA organizes team managers to vote anonymously before the start of each season. In the vote on who was the biggest dark horse in the draft night, the piston rookie Durham and the rocket rookie Tari-Ethan both got 14% of the votes, tied for the first place.
The eyes of team managers are really poisonous. After being selected for the summer league for a while, Ethan played a bright performance in the preseason with more gold: he scored 21 points and 10 rebounds against the Spurs 13 shots; cut 24 points and 8 rebounds against the Raptors in 15 shots and 8 shots; Win 17 points and 12 rebounds against the Heat in 11 shots and 8 shots. After the rocket Raptors game, John Lucas, the assistant rocket teacher, said excitedly: “Ethan is like a better Rodman.”
Compared with Rodman, Ethan was really killed. However, anyone who watched Ethan’s performance in several preseason games could feel the mood of the rocket coaching staff: Ethan was selected in the 17th order, just like buying real Moutai at 9 yuan in the live broadcast room of Kazi, many people even began to ask:
How on earth did this Ethan fall into the 17th position?
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The height is 2 meters 03, the arm is 2 meters 18, the height is 2 meters 74, and the palm is as big as Ke Huai Leonard. Ethan’s body hardware data will remind you of many popular NBA flanks: Leonard, George, Scottie Barnes.
However, Ethan did not have a shining high school and college basketball career like the name I mentioned. His road to basketball was covered with thorns. The contempt of experts, the cold reception of famous schools and forced transfer are common to him.
Born in 2001 in Portsmouth, Virginia, Ethan chose to start his own basketball path at Seattle Sheffield High School taught by Brandon Roy. Ethan didn’t get a chance to play in the first two years. After transferring to Washington Federal Road High School for one year, Ethan, who returned to Sheffield High School in senior four, began to shine.
In the final of Washington State High School League that year, Ethan scored 21 points and 14 rebounds, leading the team to beat the Odea high school where the champion of this year’s bankelo was, winning the championship and MVP.
In the fourth year of high school, the average score is 23 points, 8 rebounds, 3 steals and wins the best player. Will Ethan receive a snowflake-like prestigious Offer? No. Although Ethan’s mother sent a video email of his son playing basketball to every NCAA elite school, Ethan was only rated as a four-star high school student (ranking 90 miles away, not as good as Zeng fanbo). Experts say Ethan’s skill of holding the ball is rough and his shooting action is funny. NCAA’s strongest five competition areas (SEC,ACC,BIG-12,BIG TEN,PAC-12) did not recruit Ethan. Ethan finally chose the University of Cincinnati in the ACC competition area.
At that time, the University of Cincinnati was in an eventful autumn. Meritorious Coach Cronin just transferred to UCLA, a famous university. The whole NCAA caught up with the epidemic and landed in North America. All the crazy March matches were canceled. Ethan, who was new here, could only spend time on the bench. As a result, John Brandon, the coach of the University of Cincinnati at that time, was investigated and resigned. Ethan felt that the University of Cincinnati was too chaotic, so he sought a transfer.
Louisiana State University (LSU) extended an olive branch to Ethan. If you come to the new school halfway, you must fight for the opportunity yourself. After being in LSU, Ethan practiced for an hour every morning after finishing routine training with his teammates to improve his fengshui ball and shooting skills.
In Cincinnati, Ethan was just a brown man playing by body instinct, as experts said. At that time, his free throw hit rate was only 57.4 percent, and his 3-point hit rate was 24.1 percent. After coming to LSU, Ethan not only practiced three points, but also challenged LSU’s “Thomas Line” as the leading player of LSU last year, cameron Thomas drew a line 10 feet away from NCAA three point line, and Ethan practiced super far and three points on Thomas line every day, until he can easily throw in the three points of this super far position in the practice.
The effect of one year’s hard training was immediate. Ethan’s hit rate of penalty basket reached 80.3 percent, while the hit rate of three points was 35.9 percent. The actual hit rate soared from 50.2% to 61.5%. In the last 17 games, Ethan’s three-point hit rate even reached 43%. Nick Berry, the teaching assistant of LSU, said: “There are always people who want to credit the players to themselves, but I want to say that Ethan is a training freak, he hopes that he can become the first player named by the coach. His achievements come from his efforts.”
So in the stronger SEC division, Ethan doubled the data, from 7.3 points in the first game to 16.9 points in the sophomore year, and his 33.4 player efficiency rating (PER) ranked second in the SEC division and fourth in the country. The positive and negative values of defense every 40 minutes are as high as +14.7, and the contribution of defense victory is the top five in the country. The 24-point 12 board against Tennessee and the 24-point 7 board against Arkansas are all heavyweight performances. After the end of the season, Ethan was elected to the SEC division for a while and became the best sixth person in the SEC division.
The past year was the most important year in Ethan’s life. He grew up from a brown Han to a hexagonal warrior. Everyone can see his rapid progress, so his draft market has risen all the way.
However, Ethan was not eye-catching when trying for each team.
I don’t know why, Ethan didn’t show the state of NCAA at all during the trial training for each team. In the simulation draft of Sports Illustrated in June, Ethan fell from the edge of Lotto to to 23 in sequence, draft expert Jeremy revealed that Ethan’s basketball IQ, passing ability and shooting choice made several teams (wizards, Spurs, Knights) who had tried him very dissatisfied.
But now it seems that Ethan may have played a narrow-minded trick very boldly.
According to what happened in the past, Ethan should be a player with great planning for his career, so a reasonable inference is that he is likely to drain water in the trial training, and his purpose is to be selected by a suitable team.
The rocket may be Ethan’s favorite target-pelicans, Spurs, Wizards, Knicks, Wasps, Pistons and eagles, which rank ahead of the rocket, all have relatively rich strike line reserves, however, the Rockets did not have a real start in the small forward position (Nwaba and garrison-Matheus were obviously not the main level). If they were in the Rockets, ethan is likely to get the stable playing time he cannot get in other teams from the beginning.
So at the draft conference, Ethan and the Rockets completed a two-way trip. After selecting Ethan, the rocket manager Stone said, “Ethan can play the role of defender, and he has a special investment in defense, he is a player we like very much. We are very nervous when we reach the 17th position.”
So, what kind of player is Ethan?
Advantages:
Defense is Ethan’s biggest selling point. Throughout the history of NCAA, he is the only five players with a snatch rate of more than 4% and a capping rate of more than 6%. The last person who achieved this data was saibull who was selected into the best defensive team. Compared with saibull’s sticky toll station-style defense, Ethan felt more like a savage road bully, combined with his excellent conversion offensive ability, his defensive aggressiveness multiplied.
Direct conversion attack storm buckle
Take it, you!
Not just to prevent it, but to cover it out
Barbarians that all fast attackers fear
Ethan is strong in body and excellent in explosive force. His 2.03-meter height arm exhibition has reached an astonishing 2.18 meters. Therefore, his defensive area is very large, which often brings unexpected interference to the attacking team members. At the same time, his steps are also very fast, with strong ability to relieve a garrison and potential from 1 to 5.
Robinson hesitated for a moment when he took the ball, but I didn’t expect Ethan to keep up……
Positive rebounding and excellent rebounding awareness are the reasons why Ethan is said to be like Rodman. It is no accident to look at his awareness of robbing the board to cut into the penalty area like a ghost against the Raptors.
In the three pre-season matches, Ethan grabbed 16 front-court rebounds. In his sophomore year, his 15.2 percent rebound rate ranked fifth in the SEC division. Players who can rebound are popular everywhere.
The speed of the bullet is excellent, turning over the river inside the Raptors
The rebound smell is very good
A coquettish twist hid the opponent’s box out and grabbed the rebound from his teammates to make up for it.
Switching attack was Ethan’s killer when he was in college. In his sophomore year, he switched players who scored more than 75% in each round. As a player with excellent athletic ability and rebounding ability, Ethan push conversion is like an off-road vehicle driving into the wasteland, running freely without boundaries.
Ethan didn’t have any action to attack with the ball for the time being, but his breakthrough was still full of aggressiveness. In his sophomore season, 55% of the positional shooting was completed near rim, he can win 5.7 Free throws every 24.4 minutes, and he knows how to eat opponents weaker than himself with speed and body.
In the match against the Heat, facing Duncan Robinson, he did not hesitate and shot down the basket with 2 points.
Pull rod shows good core strength and coordination
Disadvantages:
As mentioned above, Ethan is not a natural pitcher. Almost all his shots are hard practiced in college, so his shooting movements are not very smooth and stretch, and his shooting points are obviously low, it’s a bit like pushing.
There is still room for improvement in shooting hand type and shooting speed (especially aiming time)
The shot point is relatively low, currently it is only suitable for large space shots
In the higher level NBA, this will obviously be a problem-he has been adjusting his shooting posture for the past two years, but it is gratifying that although the current posture is not very good, but basically, there are still some. In the three pre-season matches, he made 4 out of 9 three-point shots, and the hit rate was qualified.
Another obvious problem of Ethan is the ability to hold the ball to attack and the choice of attack. Perhaps it depends too much on his physical quality, plus the technology is not good enough (medium distance technology and footsteps are equal to blank, the left hand is almost not very useful), Ethan is often very blind on the offensive side. Once the top is ignored, he will stick to the crowd, so there are few assists and high mistakes, A pair of not very smart Yazi.
There is no confidence to use the left hand to break through fengshui ball
Hard to go to the basket, send a hat
The same is true for this ball.
Finally, the defensive habit, just like all the young defensive generals with strong physical quality, Ethan often makes unreasonable defensive decisions and sometimes seems too keen on defending and gambling steals, as a result, they missed their own people and some foul problems.
The Rockets, the second year after Harden left, won many young players such as Jay Green, Jamari Smith, Shen Jing, Tate, Garuba, Christopher, Tetai-Washington through the draft. But none of these players is a small forward with standard figure. Ethan can play two positions of small forward and big forward, which ensures that he can occupy a place in the young rockets.
The template given to Ethan NBAdraft is Gerard Wallace. If the name Wallace is a little far away, then I prefer to regard Ethan’s NBA template as Pelican forward Herbert Jones. Both of them are 2 meters 03 and more than 2 meters 18 arm show, the movement ability is very similar, the biggest selling point is the ability of relieve a garrison and cooperative defense.
At the offensive end, both of them also played the role of air cut and fast attack Terminator. The difference is that Ethan is younger (2 years younger than Jones) and the backboard base looks better. It seems that there is still room for improvement in the three points.
Roy, who taught Ethan in high school, said: “I didn’t give Ethan too much playing time in the first two years. He never complained about it. He just kept training until he became the best player in the state after transferring to school. There is a constant fact about him every day: he doesn’t want to be a loser, and this mentality has never changed.”
Ethan, who grew up from an ugly duckling to a Black Swan, may be able to accompany green in the young rockets. PROTONIC, Smith experienced what he had experienced together: being seen as a driving force, grow silently until the last make a great coup, the rocket lifts off.
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