[外電] 2013-14 Season Recaps: Austin Rivers

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http://www.thebirdwrites.com/2014/4/28/5623392/austin-rivers-season-recap Well, at least Hollinger disciples could be found clamoring this from rooftops as Rivers PER jumped from 5.9 to 11.6. But in all seriousness, Austin did show dramatic improvement in a number of facets despite many all-encompassing statistics still regarding him as below average. Granted, that should have been the likely outcome considering he was starting from the abyss, but nonetheless, it was gratifying to witness Doc's son prove he belongs on an NBA floor. 小河在今年有顯著的進步，雖然還是有一些數據顯示低於平均，但小河已經證明他屬於 NBA。 Austin's 2013-14 season started very slowly as he appeared in only one game out of the Pelicans first six. He was in direct competition with Brian Roberts for the available sparse minutes behind Jrue Holiday, and Monty often opted to go with the elder. However, as the year progressed, his opportunity grew, and for the most part Rivers acquitted himself well. So much so, that I asked Monty to move him into the starting lineup, ahead of Roberts for the last month of the season. It didn't happen, but Austin drew the start in the final four games of the season and he posted some very interesting numbers. 小河本季啟動較慢，前六場只有出賽一場，他要跟太多人競爭，但隨著賽季進行，他的機會越來越多。到賽季剩最後四場比賽他甚至先發了，而且還有不錯的表現。 Daring to Dream a Little Bigger Since Rivers got thrown out of the second to last game of the season, for getting into a tussle with Nick Collison, those statistics will be ignored. In the other three games, Rivers averaged 18.7 points, 7.7 rebounds, 6.3 assists, 1.6 steals, 2 three's and 2 turnovers. The competition? The majority of the time, Russell Westbrook and the tenacious Patrick Beverley twice. If my calculations are correct, he posted a PER of just over 17. 由於小河倒數第二場比賽被趕出場，所以只算三場的成績，平均18.7分7.7籃板6.3助攻 1.6抄截2顆三分2次失誤。大部分都是面對西河和天空貝，PER超過17一點點。 Those per-game averages reduced to per 36 minute data measure up extremely well in history. Even more so when the data is filtered to only 21 year olds. Here is the full list of very young guards who averaged 15 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists on a per 36 minute basis: 以下的列表為21歲PER36有15分4籃板4助攻成績的球員 Shooting Per 36 Minutes Rk Player Season Tm 1 LeBron James 2005-06 CLE 2 Michael Jordan* 1984-85 CHI 3 Kobe Bryant 1999-00 LAL 4 Chris Paul 2006-07 NOK 5 Gilbert Arenas 2002-03 GSW 6 Magic Johnson* 1980-81 LAL 7 Russell Westbrook 2009-10 OKC 8 Stephen Curry 2009-10 GSW 9 John Wall 2011-12 WAS 10 Tyreke Evans 2010-11 SAC 11 Victor Oladipo 2013-14 ORL 12 Kemba Walker 2011-12 CHA 13 Phil Walker 1977-78 WSB Data courtesy Basketball-Reference.com. That's only 13 names. Now before the small sample size police come knocking, these numbers aren't completely out of left field. Check out the progression in Austin's per 36 data by month. 但這只是小樣本，還是來看他最後一個月的PER36 POINTS REBOUNDS ASSISTS (PG) STEALS THREES TURNOVERS November 13.7 3.3 4.8 .7 .7 2.6 December 11.9 2.5 1.2 1.5 1.2 .7 January 14.1 2.7 4.2 1.3 .9 1.8 February 13.4 4.1 4.1 .9 .9 1.5 March 16.0 2.6 4.8 1.6 .8 3.0 April 14.3 5.4 5.5 1.2 1.3 2.3 In April, when Austin averaged 30 minutes a game, often playing against NBA starters, he had arguably his best month. He recorded his highest amount of assists while keeping the turnovers to a minimum, good for 2.47 ast/to ratio. He made 9 of 15 from beyond the arc, but more importantly, started taking and making midrange jumpers. From beyond 16 feet, he made 12 of his 24 attempts. And most impressively, his defensive rebounding numbers jumped to a sparkling 19.2%. According to the game logs, it was as though Rivers made it his personal mission to pick up the slack without Anthony Davis. Among the regular rotation over the final five games, Austin recorded the second highest defensive rebounding percentage (21.8%). 四月小河平均一場上30分鐘，常常面對的是先發球員，這個月是他表現最好的一個月。助攻失誤比高達2.47，而且三分投15中9，但更重要的是，他投更多的中距離，而且還會進。在16呎以上，投24中12。更讓人印象深刻的是他的防守籃板率來到19.2%。在最後五場比賽，更是高達21.8% Does This Mean Anything? 這有什麼意義嗎？ Short answer, yes. 當然。 Right before the 2012 NBA Draft, Chad Ford had some very demeaning words aimed in Austin's direction: 在2012選秀前，Chad Ford很貶低小河 FORD: Look, Lillard was a late bloomer. He wasn’t lightly recruited until his senior season. You may be right that Rivers would’ve put up better numbers as a freshman. However, here’s my knock on Rivers. He thinks he’s Kobe. He’s not. He doesn’t have the length, the height, nor the athletic ability. Take those things away from Kobe, and he’s Ricky Davis — an irritating ball hog no one wants to play with and who isn’t good enough to warrant the diva act. FORD：Lillard是大器晚成，到大四才被發現，也許小河在新人年的表現會比他好。這是我個人對小河的看法，他覺得他是Kobe，他不是，他沒有長度、高度和運動能力。Kobe如果沒有這些，就只是Ricky Davis，單純只是個沒人想要和他一起打球的球霸 SIMMONS: Wow, you just waved two middle fingers at Doc Rivers — you compared his son to his least favorite player to have ever coached. Why didn’t you just throw a Dominique Wilkins barb in there while you were at it? SIMMONS：你剛剛可是惹了老河，你將他的兒子比成他最不喜歡的球員。為什麼不只是說成Dominique Wilkins就好了呢？ FORD: Lillard is a willing passer. Rivers isn’t and will never be. Lillard made dramatic improvements from year to year. I thought Rivers was the exact player in college that he was in high school. Lillard is a team player. He was the second most efficient player in college basketball DESPITE being the only decent player on his entire roster; teams game planned to stop him and him alone every night. I just don’t see Rivers ever being anywhere near as unselfish or efficient. I think Rivers will be shocked at the athleticism and length at his position. He’ll try to do the same things at which he excelled in high school, spend a lot of time on the bench, get into it with his coach and teammates, get traded in a year or two to a desperate team, put up huge numbers for a cellar-dweller for a year or two, make some money, and eventually, teams will realize he can’t be the alpha dog on a winning team. FORD：Lillard是個願意傳球的球員。小河不是，也不會是。Lillard每年都有長足的進步我想小河大學和高中沒什麼兩樣。Lillard是個團隊球員，他是第二有效率的球員，每個球隊都想要守住他，我覺得小河在這兩方面是看不到車尾燈的。我認為小河會對同位置球員的運動能力和長度所嚇到，他會一直待在板凳上，然後一兩年後就被交易，有時候會有些好表現，但最後球隊會了解他不會是強隊的一份子。 SIMMONS: Other than that, you’re a huge Austin Rivers fan. SIMMONS：除此之外，你是個小河的死忠迷。 FORD: I honestly think Rivers is the one guy I wouldn’t touch in the lottery. Too toxic for team chemistry, doesn’t have the same physical tools to make it worth it. FORD：我不會在樂透區選小河，對團隊來說是毒瘤，而且也沒有很好的天份值得去冒險 Ford wrote off Rivers after just one year in college, and although our 10th pick in the 2012 NBA Draft didn't turn out to be an awful chucker, he had scarce positives his rookie season -- thereby confirming in the minds of most experts Austin was still going to end up a bust. 小河在新人年乏善可陳，因此在許多專家的心中仍然認為小河是假貨。 From day one, what did I preach? (Check my signature the last several seasons!) Austin Rivers was going to require patience and loads of it. Remember, he just finished his age 21 season where he posted the following per 36 minute statistics and other advanced numbers. 小河需要的是耐心，他才剛21歲，就有以下的成績。 PTS/36 REB/36 AST/36 STL/36 TOV/36 TS% AST% TOV% USG% RIM FG% 14.2 3.5 4.3 1.2 2.1 48.2% 18.7% 12.3% 21.3% 53.6% Hmm. Don't they look awfully similar to this line below? PTS/36 REB/36 AST/36 STL/36 TOV/36 TS% AST% TOV% USG% RIM FG% 14.4 3.5 4.8 1.7 2.2 49.6% 21.6% 13.2% 21.8% 53.9% That's none other than Jrue Holiday in his age 21 season. A player who appeared in the All-Star game the following season. 兩個成績差不多，下面是Jrue在21歲時的成績，而Jrue在接下來的球季就進入明星賽。 Now I'm not willing to state for the record that Austin Rivers will be playing in next All-Star game. However, it should be obvious that he is convincingly closer to achieving such a feat than ending up as some cancer on a team who wasn't worth a lottery selection. 我不是說小河下個球季就會進明星賽，而是他並不是毒瘤，不值得在樂透區選他。 From his rookie season to the end of his sophomore season, Austin's improvement has been significant. His FT%, 3FG%, TS% and TOV% went up by more than 10%. His rebounding percentage increased by more than 20%. His free throw rate by more than 30%. And his overall defense is now considered to be above average. Don't look now but someone is knocking on the door of being a viable and highly coveted 2-way player. 這兩季他進步很大，他的FT%、3FG%、TS%和TOV%都上升超過10%。他的籃板率上升超過20% 他的罰球率上升超過30%，而且他目前整體防守被認為是高於平均，他未來是很有可能成為很棒的攻守俱佳球員。 Before we get too far ahead of ourselves, Austin Rivers still has miles to go. His free throw percentage remains worse than a lot of bigs in the NBA. His pull-up game is notoriously poor. The mid-range game, well, outside of making several jumpers from that area in the final few weeks of the season, should still be considered absent. Yet, if we've learned one thing about Austin, he'll spend every waking moment this off-season on working on his deficiencies. 小河還有很大的進步空間，他的罰球命中率還是比很多大個還爛，他的跳投還是爛，中距離除了最後幾場還是爛。但小河季外還是花很多在他的缺點上。 The point of this review was to not only make it abundantly clear that Austin is noticeably trending in the right direction, but there exists plenty of hope it can continue. For instance, did you know Austin and his broken jumpshot had the highest catch and shoot 3FG% on the team and the fifth best mark in the league? Or how about the fact Rivers had the 6th highest points per 48 minutes on drives in the league (Tyreke was 2nd)? That's a couple of elite attributes right there. Although time will tell whether more follow, I'm certainly willing to bet on him rather than against him. At age 20, Austin nearly drowned in the NBA. At age 21, he learned to tread water. It's not far-fetched to think he'll be swimming in the near future. 這回顧不只是在說小河目前的方向是對的，而且他還存在著很多可能性。譬如你知道小河的跳投在C&S 3FG%是全隊最好全聯盟第五嗎？或者知道小河每48分鐘的切入得分是聯盟第六高(reke是第2高)嗎？他才21歲，還有很大的可能性。 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc), 來自: 36.231.23.67 ※ 文章網址: http://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Pelicans/M.1399022382.A.9B0.html