Why did Powell, who took George away as an opportunity, traded by the Los Angeles Clippers

When I heard that Norman Powell was traded from the Los Angeles Clippers to the Miami Heat, I was filled with emotion. As the former moderator of the Toronto Raptors, I watched Powell grow up step by step. I thought about the past and look at the present day, and I went one after another, so I wrote "The stadium was flying shadows and clouds, and the sharpness was shining alone in Bob Bryant."

The webmaster was confused after reading these two lines of poems. He said, "Bryant? Still TM is so unique? I have a romantic temperament?" Like him, I also have a lot of confusion. Why was Powell, who had the highest performance in his career last season, who was traded by the Clippers? In order to solve this puzzle, today's Star Test will bring you Powell's data analysis.

Powell is nicknamed Bokobe, and Van Van Jordan, who is currently playing for the Houston Rockets. They were once the second player of the Toronto Raptors. They made great contributions to the Raptors' championship in the 2018-19 season. Their figures are similar to their style of play, but their subsequent development situations are completely different. Powell was first traded by the Raptors and continued to work hard for their reputation in Portland and Los Angeles Clippers. They played nearly All-Star data last season, but they were eventually out of the All-Star. Van Van Vlite counterattacked the legend in the draft, successfully selected as the All-Star, and received a maximum salary. So why are there such a gap in their situations? I gave the answer at the end of the article through data analysis. Among the last updated NBA 2024-25 top 100 stars this year's season, Powell dropped from 51st place at the beginning of the season to 58th place, and before the All-Star in February, he ranked 47th place. The website comments are as follows:

A new Norman, one of the best scorers in the league is playing his special role.

Although Powell's prediction is not Baby Ruth (a legendary American baseball batsman, known for predicting opponent pitching in advance), Powell's pre-season predictions can easily become the most prescient prediction in recent years. When asked about the impact of Paul George's departure on the media day, Powell described the team's main player's decision to sign with the Philadelphia 76ers in the offseason as "I treat his departure as a chance." There was a snickering at the scene, but Powell's bold remarks were fully verified. Powell was once considered a real-time offensive firepower point in Jamal Crawford (formerly the best sixth man in the Clippers), but he has now become one of the best shooters in the league.

Now Powell has become a starter. He plays with the confidence and passion of promoting the players. He can still make a large number of three-pointers, but no longer just catches the ball (although his three-point shooting percentage is once again close to 50%), and his emergency stop jump shot score rate is comparable to Kyrie Irving. Now he is recognized as one of the best shooters in the league. His feel, balance, and tenacity in a stressful environment are what every coach dreams of.

His assist data improvement was offset by mistakes. Although he was more aggressive on the defensive end, his size and occasional mental errors limited his defensive performance. His performance this season was amazing, especially compared to George's at the same time.

Through the website comments, it can be seen that Powell has raised his player reputation to a new level this season, especially helping the Clippers make up for the huge losses of George's departure. This result allowed him to successfully move from a high-quality role player to the main starting player circle. In the All-Star voting session, he also successfully entered the All-Star Bead discussion range. And when he joined the Heat's deal, the Miami Heat media exclaimed: "Oh my God, we exchanged two veterans Love and Lee Kyle for an All-Star." Is that really the case? Let's verify it through the data.

Powell started all 60 games in the regular season and seven games in the playoffs this season. This is the first time in his career in the past 10 years. This shows that he has fully established his starting position as the main player, averaging 32.6 minutes per game as the third in his career, only lower than his two-year period in 2020-22. He averaged 21.8 points per game as the highest in his career, ranking in the Clippers. He ranked second, only 22.8 points lower than Harden, ranked 36th in the league. The regular season offensive ball rights use rate is 26%, and the Clippers ranked 3rd in the Clippers (29.6% lower than Harden and 27.7% Leonard), with 55% inside scores, 45% outside the three-point line score, 68% assisted scores, and 32% of independent ball scores. Then I listed his data last year for comparison.

Last year, he played the sixth man role in the Clippers. He scored 65 points in the Best Sixth Man selection of the season, ranked fourth in the league. First, Naz Reed scored 352 points, second, Monk scored 342 points, third, Portis scored 81 points, regular season offensive ball usage rate, 20% of the internal score, 50% of the three-point line scored, 50% of the assisted score, 79% of the assisted score, and 21% of the scores.

From the comparison, it can be seen that he is a scorer with both internal and external scoring ability. This season, the team has added a lot of offensive ball rights to him, and the average number of shots per game has increased from 10.1 times last season to the highest career 15.8 times this season. At the same time, the proportion of independent offensive has also increased by 11 percentage points. His offensive role has increased significantly. Of course, the most important thing for us is to look at efficiency. In terms of inside scoring, the regular season has a total of 575 breakthroughs, ranking second in the Clippers and 61st in the league. He has made 332 shots in the attacking box and 51% of the shooting percentage. This efficiency is at the qualified level.

The breakthrough pass rate is very low, and the breakthrough assist rate is 7.7% and his breakthrough assist rate is very low. His breakthrough is basically scored directly from the basket. The breakthrough error rate is 5% controlled very well. Powell is only 1.93 meters tall, and he has been blocked 52 times in the league. He can play this breakthrough efficiency under this disadvantageous body size, which is worth a high look.. Compared with breakthroughs, projection is his unique skill.

The best hit shots in the regular season, the regular season three-pointers were shot 239 times, ranking first in the Clippers, 89th in the league, with a shooting percentage of 108 goals, 45.2%. This hit percentage ranks sixth among the top 100 players who took the ball and shot shot in the league, with a shooting percentage of Prince 49.8%, second Towns 46.2%, third Durant 45.6%, fourth Isaiah Joe 45.4%, fifth Jokic 45.3%. Although Harden has greatly reduced his age, he can still find his open teammates accurately. Powell is the most stable and most dependent outside contact firepower point for the Clippers.

In terms of individual ball shooting, the regular season three-pointers made 188 shots and 71 balls and hit a shooting percentage of 37.8%. This shooting percentage has dropped significantly compared to receiving three-pointers, and can only be considered a qualified level in the league.

shot 127 shots in the middle distance and hit 50 goals, with a shooting percentage of 37.4% not reaching the excellent line of 45%. It can be seen that he is trapped by his body shape. Once he is really the main attacker, his scoring efficiency will immediately decrease significantly.

Especially in the playoffs, in the series against the Denver Nuggets, facing the defense of Jamal Murray and Westbrook, who are not good at defense, his scoring efficiency has not increased but decreased. He took the ball and made 16 three-pointers and shot 6 goals in 7 games, and shot 37.5% in 6 goals, while 23 three-pointers and shot 8 goals in 23 shots, a drop of nearly 10 percentage points compared to the regular season. The score difference between the two sides was within 3 points in three of the 7 games, and the Clippers lost by 2 points in two games. If Powell can maintain the regular season three-point shooting percentage, the Clippers may be the one who advances.

Then there is the fatal point that plagued Powell's upward promotion - defensive ability. He was trapped by his height and wingspan. He was born with a weak defensive ring. Last season, his opponent averaged 8.7 shots in front of him, with a shooting percentage of 4.3 goals and a shooting percentage of 49.4%. His opponent's average shooting percentage increased by 3.6 percentage points under his defense, which was the worst defensive efficiency among the main rotation players of the Clippers.

The regular season defensive back players have 2370 rounds in 458 minutes, and the defenders have hit a shooting percentage of 46.5% in defense.

The defensive forward player has 1414 rounds in 270 minutes, and the forward player hits 50% under his defense. It can be seen that once he encounters a misalignment, it will be useless.

Under his defense in the playoffs, Gordon made 7 of 10 shots, Porter Jr. made 4 of 8 shots, Murray made 6 of 10 shots, and Braun made 4 of 12 shots. Except for being able to defend Braun, no one else could handle it. This level of defense is a double-edged sword in the playoffs.

Through data analysis, everyone can clearly realize that Powell is a very efficient starting scorer in the regular season stage, but in the higher-level playoff stage, once he encounters more targeted defensive tactics and stronger defensive counterattacks, his scoring efficiency will be greatly reduced, and the nature of insufficient star quality will appear. Coupled with his very poor defensive ability, his position will become extremely embarrassing.

Then we can explain the problem at the beginning of the article. The reason why he could not achieve VanVleet's position was because VanVleet could lead the whole team, and he could only fight alone, that is, Du Yao. He did seize the opportunity of George leaving and successfully took over, but after a playoff, people also realized that he was a big double-edged sword. If he could score, he could achieve the difference between merits and demerits, but once the scoring efficiency decreased, it would be a side effect. I could see the problem, which was better seen by the Clippers coaching staff and management.

Now he has joined the Miami Heat. The Heat have a disciplined and executed joint defense system that can make up for his defensive shortcomings to a certain extent. I hope he can use this deal as an opportunity next season, continue to perform better and realize his dream of becoming an All-Star.