Even if this is an era of data explosion, it is still extremely difficult to connect with Michael Jordan.

The guard shot 20 + Times and reached at least 53% at the same time field goal percentage. Before this season, only Jordan had done it in NBA history, and it was 3 times.

The defender has at least two steals plus 1.5 cap. Before this season, only Jordan had done it in NBA history, and it was twice.

After this season, these two great achievements may not only belong to Jordan alone. 24-year-old Xie Yi-Kyrgyzstan-Alexander has set foot on the road to catch up with Jordan. In the first 12 games, Alexander scored 31.1 points for 21.1 times, field goal percentage 54.3 percent. Meanwhile, Alexander Field sent 2.1 steals and 1.5 caps.

Public opinion always has a prejudice against Alexander, a player who works for the weak brigade but has gorgeous personal data, and thinks that they are nothing more than using unlimited firing power to brush data. But through the ages, who has ever seen such an efficient and versatile bad team brush? Thunder is weak, but the opponent’s defense against Alexander is not weak. What’s more, in the game played by Alexander this season, Thunder was 6 wins and 6 losses, with a winning rate of 50%.

If people go high, if they can choose, who is willing to waste time in a weak team?

Alexander was evaluated as “four stars” when he graduated from high school. After graduating from high school, Alexander first promised to join the University of Florida, and then changed his mind and chose the NCAA famous University of Kentucky. Alexander played in the university for a year. In the 2017-18 season, he averaged 14.4 points, 5.1 assists and 4.1 rebounds, helping the team enter the Sweet 16th, and then left the university to participate in the draft.

On the draft day of 2018, Alexander was elected as the 11th show. He was sent to the Clippers in the transaction between Hornets and Clippers. At that time, the Clippers had just completely ended the era of “empty city”, and there were no big stars in the team. The Clippers were all soldiers with excellent chemical reaction. After Alexander joined, he started directly, playing all 82 games, starting 73 times, winning 10.8 points and 3.3 assists in each game. The Clippers unexpectedly entered the playoffs, and their opponents were powerful warriors.

That was the full version of the Warriors before Kevin Durant and Clay Thompson were injured. The Warriors obviously underestimated Alexander. Cole sent Raymond Green to the opposite position. Green let Alexander go and took charge of cruising and mopping. At the beginning, Alexander was very uncomfortable, but in the fourth game of the series, Alexander finally responded. He scored 25 points in the 9th of 15 shots. Alexander’s performance did not help the Clippers win, but still left a deep impression on Cole.

“A rookie can play and attack with confidence, which shows what kind of player he is. I think he is very good,” Cole said.

Beverly said, “although you lost, you also saw tonight that a new star was rising in Ran Ran.”

Unfortunately, the Clippers couldn’t wait for the new star to rise in Los Angeles.

During the off-season in 2019, the prerequisite for kehuai-Leonard to join the Clippers was that the Clippers were exchanged for Paul George. In order to poach George from the Thunder, the Clippers could only bleed heavily. While sending out Gary Nelly, five first-round signatures and two first-round rights swap, the Clippers also reluctantly gave up Alexander. The Clippers didn’t want to send Alexander away, but the Thunder wouldn’t let go. The Clippers could only agree. One Clippers insider said that when they agreed to send Alexander out, their hearts were broken.

“When I learned that Alexander was included in that deal, I was very sad and disappointed,” said Doug Rivers, then the coach of the Clippers. “I think he can become a super star.”

The Clippers lost a supernova, but for Alexander, it was good to go to thunder. In the 2019-20 season, just when Chris Paul was sent to thunder, Alexander had a mentor who had a great influence on his career. At the age of 21, Alexander was so lucky to be guided by Hall of Fame-level guard.

On the court, Alexander developed the ball-free skill early. On the present, Alexander often followed Paul to practice after Thunder training. Paul taught Alexander a lot of experience in how to control the attack of the who and how to avoid the opponent’s fake actions on the defensive side.

“I know that sometimes my supervision may be a burden to Alexander,” Paul said. “There are some things I told him that he may not want to hear, but now, he began to understand my good intentions.”

In the 2019-20 season, Alexander scored 19 points and 5.9 rebounds on average. Compared with the rookie season, the data has made great progress. Alexander ranked sixth in the selection of the fastest progressive player awards.

During the off-season in 2020, the Thunder sent Paul away and completely ruined it. Alexander took over the ball. In the 2020-21 season, Alexander averaged 23.7 points and 5.9 assists. In the 2021-22 season, Alexander scored 24.5 points and 5.9 assists. Alexander is making continuous progress and maintaining high efficiency, but because of the bad Thunder and the low attendance rate of Alexander himself suffered from injuries such as foot fascia tear and ankle pain, he won little praise.

Even Thunder did not intend to establish him as the core of team building. Before the 2021draft conference, Thunder once signed Alexander and No. 6 for the first prize of the piston, which was rejected by the piston.

It is different now. Although it is said that Knicks and Raptors are waiting for Alexander to apply for a deal to leave Thunder, they may be disappointed. With Alexander’s current performance, Thunder is unlikely to put him on the shelves.

This season, Alexander became the King of the number of breakthroughs for the third consecutive year. He had 24.2 breakthroughs in the game, leading Morant. At the same time, the hit rate after Alexander broke through was.

The exaggeration of these three data lies in two points:

First of all, in almost all versions of scout reports, experts mentioned the defect of Alexander’s insufficient explosive power, who was not as strong as Morant’s athletic talent.

Secondly, the space environment of Thunder was extremely bad, which could not provide Alexander with breakthrough space. Thunder has only 6 people’s average three-point shots to 3 times, of which only 1 person has a three-point hit rate of more than 35%. When Alexander took the ball, he often faced 3-4 people blocking, and the opponent would shrink the defense line infinitely.

Without breaking through explosive force or breaking through space, Alexander can still become the King of the number of breakthroughs and maintain a breakthrough ending efficiency of more than 50%, and it has been done for 3 consecutive years. How difficult is it, you can imagine.

Alexander’s breakthrough brought many rhythm changes. His application of emergency stop, acceleration and direction change was perfect. In the gentle rhythm, he had various skills to break through many people’s containment to complete the end, most of the time his movements seem to be three steps slow, but he just has a way to wipe it under the basket to finish the layup.

“I like to break through and constantly put pressure on the opponent’s defense. This is my proud skill,” Alexander said.

The difference between Alexander and other breakthrough Masters is that his frequency of using throwing is very low, and he is more inclined to use the middle-distance dry pull to deter his opponents and create breakthrough space for himself. This is also the unique advantage of Alexander. His height is 1.98 meters and his arm reaches 2.13 meters. There is no need to hide from his opponent’s throwing. He can easily pull out on his opponent’s head. Alexander has not yet developed the dry draw three points, but the hit rate of the dry draw two points is as high.

This season, Alexander made 39 of 89 shots in the forbidden area and 3 seconds outside the area, which was the area where he had the most shots. In addition, Alexander made 24 of 47 shots in perimeter shot, with a hit rate of 51.1%. Dort praised Alexander and invested a lot, which unlocked more possibilities for him.

Due to Alexander’s great deterrent power in the middle distance and forbidden area, opponents are using bag clip more and more frequently. In the first world war with Knicks today, the frequency of Knicks bag clip increased significantly in the second half. Alexander either used the rhythm to break through or helped his teammates with passing. This season, Alexander field has been bag clip 7th in the league for 14.6 times. Alexander was more and more comfortable in coping with bag clip. Thunder scored 1.18 points per round in bag clip rounds. When Alexander was present, Thunder scored more than 113 points in the hundred rounds, which was equivalent to the top ten of the league.

ESPN data analysis expert Kevin Pelton once interpreted the concept of “data brush”. Through his research on Trey-Yang and Devon-Booker, he concluded that there was no so-called “data brush”, both Yang and Booker took off this label after the team configuration was improved, which showed how a player’s wind rating was largely affected by the team configuration.

The same applies this research conclusion to Alexander. When the Thunder configuration is improved and the players in other positions are strengthened, Alexander will get the praise he deserves.

At this stage, Thunder as a whole still does not have the strength to impact the playoff seats, and they are still in the stage of “believing in the process. Alexander’s projection and defense still have huge room for improvement. He is still far from the truly reliable cornerstone of team building. In the West where the competition was fierce in the back court, Alexander might become an all-star relic. But like all players, Alexander also had a champion dream. He hoped to experience with thunder and finally reach the other side of the ideal.

“We control our destiny every night,” Alexander said. “This is a necessary process to win the championship. You have to go through it. Many teams have gone through this process, and so have we.”