Carey Owen was sent to the Lone Ranger to join hands with Luca East Chech. There was a top-level one-on-one hand around the core of Super Ball holding.
It is a reasonable choice to share the pressure with the core of holding the ball with the high-level second holding point. Owen had a successful experience of cooperating with LeBlanc James when he was a knight, james Harden and Chris Paul also had a honeymoon period in the rocket era.
But what kind of spark can Dongqi and Owen cooperate with each other? At present, it is uncertain.
In theory, Owen’s strong attack ability can divide the pressure to Dong cheqi, but basketball is obviously not a simple one. The allocation of ball holding rights, ball-free ability and defensive configuration all affect the team’s upper limit. Before the Lone Ranger has a follow-up action and the final lineup is completed, it is difficult for Dong Qiqi and Owen to be optimistic about the prospect of joining hands to reach the height of Zhan ou and boarding guns.
Taking apart donchich and Owen, both of them are the best in their respective fields. Dong Qiqi scored 33.4 points on average and made 22.2 points for 8.2 assists on average. He scored 55.6 points for each match and assisted. As a big core with a ball power usage rate as high as, Dong Qiqi has also played an extreme role.
Owen has scored 1.28 points in each round of singles this season, and he has already scored 386 points in the ninth place in the league through singles. At the same time, Owen scored 1.02 points per round. As Blocker, Owen was upgraded compared with Ding Weidi and Brunson who left the team before.
From an offensive point of view, the combination of donchip and Owen is equivalent to nuclear weapons, especially Owen has proved that he can play without a ball. However, in today’s era, it is more and more difficult to build teams around the core of holding the ball, especially the type of attack, strong defense, weak attack ability without the ball and insufficient willingness, the defensive defect makes Dong Qiqi have extremely high requirements for the lineup configuration. If you compare the combination of Dong cheqi and Owen with the combination of James and Owen in those years, maybe Dong cheqi’s personal skills and passing consciousness can break his wrist with James, but there is a long way to go between no ball and defense.
In the Heat era, James completed the transformation from No. 3 position to No. 4 position of the ball. In terms of ball style, he added the drama of no-ball attack. When he returned to the Knight in 2014, James was already a versatile player who could play number four or even occasionally top number five, and he used air cutting, blocking and dismantling to cover the proportion of receive the ball shots, the proportion of the ball-holding attack is controlled below 60%. James also has a sharp weapon that can score points quickly regardless of whether there is a ball or no ball-switching attack. His number of switching attacks in 100 rounds has been kept at more than 6 times for a long time, you can easily get 7 + points per game by switching attacks.
James’s ball-free property and willingness enabled him to keep threatening when Owen held the ball. However, after five years of entering the business, Dong cheqi has not yet shown similar ball-free property and willingness. The attack proportion of Dong Qiqi holding the ball remained above 65% for a long time. When Ding Weidi holding the ball, Dong Qiqi rarely put on cover and weak side air cut. He was more in the state of standing pestle. Subject to athletic ability, dongcheqi’s conversion attack is less. This season, Dong cheqi’s assist rate has dropped to an eye-popping 12.1 percent, and 87.9 percent of his goals depend on his personal ability. So when Owen holds the ball, how should Dong Qiqi play?
Similar problems were encountered when Harden and Paul cooperated. The answer they gave was simple and crude-taking turns to singles. In the 2017-18 season, the Rockets performed 1126 singles in a single season. They scored 1.126 points per round. Combining efficiency and output is the unique existence of the league.
However, the Rockets won 65 wins and entered the Western finals. They fought with the Warriors for 7 games. Instead of simply taking turns by the combination of guns, excellent defense is also the key. There is no need to say more about Paul’s single defense ability and defensive consciousness when he is healthy. Harden’s defense without the ball was easy to wander, but he was the league’s top low defender at that time. The defense Low lost only 0.733 points per round and the defense singles lost only 0.812 points per round this season, his ability to misposition and prevent low positions is the confidence of the rocket to Play Unlimited relieve a garrison. Together with Eric Gordon and the attack line group, the Rockets built the sixth line of defense of the alliance through unlimited relieve a garrison.
All general managers know that the team building around the big core of holding the ball and the top singles players should match the players who can vote for three points and can defend, but in the final analysis, under the premise of salary cap, the team building achievements of this team, the upper limit depends on the fault tolerance rate provided to the team by the star or the second star.
Taking the rockets mentioned before as an example, each of Harden and Paul can play in singles, and can also shoulder a block and tear down the attack line alone and use passing to series the team. The most important thing is that they have a level of defense in the infinite relieve a garrison system of the rocket, and there are not many weaknesses in the whole defense line when the rocket matches the 3D Group.
During the cooperation period between James and Owen Knight, Owen and Kevin-loafers were defensive weaknesses. However, James, who had just passed the year at that time, was still at the peak and still existed in the integration of attack and defense, playing the role of supporting the bottom. When the playoffs were full of strength, James’s defense was still trustworthy. With J.R. Smith, Tristan Thompson, Richard Jefferson, xiangpt and other role players, the Cavaliers can still play a good defense in the playoffs. Especially at that time, their unlimited relieve a garrison for Warriors was very mature, and they could also come up with various targeted strategies when encountering other teams, such as the crazy attack on the ball against the Raptors.
Therefore, compared with the Knights led by Zhan ou and the Rockets led by guns, The Lone Ranger led by Dong Qiqi and Owen lacks many characteristics.
On the offensive end, Dong Qiqi lacked the willingness and ability to attack without a ball. He and Owen needed a lot of time to run in, which could not be solved simply by letting Dong Qiqi hand over some ball rights.
The number and quality of the Lone Ranger shooter group are not enough. This season, the Lone Ranger field has reached the third place in 14.6 three-point league, but the hit rate of 36.1% is only the 15th. Now, The Lone Ranger has sent away the team’s Ding Weidi with the second third hit and Dorian Finney Smith with the Fifth Third hit. Owen made 3.3 three points in this season, with a hit rate. However, it is unknown whether he can still maintain such a three-point output around Dong Qiqi.
In contrast, the average number of Knight hits in 2016 was the second in the league and the seventh in the league. In 2018, the average three points of the rocket field hit the League 1, hit the 14th.
On the defensive end, the Lone Ranger lacks more. Neither Dong Qiqi nor Owen is good at defense, which doomed the Lone Ranger to be difficult to play unlimited relieve a garrison. In today’s era, it is difficult for the championship team to bear at least two weak defensive rings in the five-member team. What’s more, other players who have no defensive ability are particularly top players.
The Lone Ranger can play the five positions of East Chech, Owen, little Hardaway, Brock (or Josh Green) and wood, but this lineup is basically not defensive. It is not much better to replace wood with Dwight Powell or Kleber (still recovering). Now the defensive efficiency of the Lone Ranger ranks 24th in the league. After sending away Finney Smith, who leads the Lone Ranger with diversity of defensive positions and difficulty in defense, their defense may decline further.
Therefore, the follow-up operation of whether the Lone Ranger has strengthened the front line defense before the trade deadline is very critical. But judging from the chips in the hands of the Lone Ranger, it is very difficult. The first round signed by the Lone Ranger in 2023 was in the hands of Knicks (polzingis transaction), which was the top 10 Ordinal protection. The first round signed in 2029 had been sent to basketable nets. Before the transaction deadline, only the first round of signing in 2027 and the first round of exchanging rights in 2026 and 2028.
Perhaps there is also a possibility that the Lone Ranger is doing two Way Stretch. Xianhao gambles the remaining half of the season and uses this transaction to fully solve the situation and sort out the salary space. Next season, Ding Weidi and Finney Smith will no longer occupy the salary space. Brock is a partial guarantee contract, and Powell and Wood (provided that they are not renewed in advance) will expire.
If Owen performs well in the second half of the season, Lone Ranger can renew his contract with him. In the worst case, the lone ranger can sign it first and then change it, or give up Owen to make room for salary, and re-match the more appropriate jigsaw puzzle around Dong Qiqi.