One statistic proves this – the assist rate.

In attack, the center is greatly affected by the assist rate. In the first eight games, Drummond's assist rate was just 9.1 percent, the lowest among the top interior players. As the interior core of the Pistons, he only had 14 dunks in eight games, an average of just 1.8 per game, well below Howard's 4.0 per game in the 007-08 season. Of all the offensive scores, dunks are the scoring method with the highest shooting percentage and the highest assist rate, and Howard in the 007-08 season accounted for 9.5% of all shots, but what about Drummond? 14 dunks, accounting for only 11.7% of his total shooting.

In the 015-16 season, Jordan Jr., who had a shooting rate of 7.7% and an assist rate of 86%, basically relied on dunks for scoring; "White Side" Whiteside, with a shooting rate of 64% and an assist rate of 66.7%; Duncan, who shot 51.9 percent from the field, also had an assist rate of 6.0 percent, and Jazz center Gobert, who has also performed amazingly this season, had an assist rate of 70.8 percent but a shooting rate of only 49.0 percent.

The season with the fewest assist percentage in Howard's career was the 011-1 season with the Magic, shooting 57.% from the field and 56.9% from the field, but even so, he had an assist rate of 50.5% and averaged .7 dunks per game, both higher than the current Drummond. On the other hand, if Drummond averaged 4.0 dunks per game like Howard in '007-08, he could score at least one point higher and shoot 60 percent from the field — which would be more offensive than Howard in '007-08.

Come to think of it, Howard was a little prince with the Magic, with a maximum of 9 free catches in a game, but what about Drummond? Until now, he hasn't found an outside player who can throw the ball at him and let him fly in the air.

Once the Pistons' perimeter is better able to pass the ball to Drummond, his shooting percentage will increase by several percentage points, and it will be easy for him to score more points than Howard in the same period.

Pistons forward Marcus Morris has made Drummond the best rebounding leader in league history, and "I've never seen a better player than him to grab rebounds."

Da Fan did not hesitate to praise, "Drummond's ability to grab rebounds is phenomenal."

In the first eight games, Drummond grabbed an average of 19 rebounds per game, 6 more than Jordan Jr., who ranked second, and 7.1 offensive rebounds, 4 more than Jordan Jr. In the entire history of the NBA, only six players have averaged more rebounds per game than Drummond in a single season, and the most recent was Wilt Chamberlain in 1968-69. But there is another mystery in this staggering statistic, Drummond's rebounding and defensive ability is greatly overrated.

Drummond's crazy 0+0 stats easily remind us of Kevin Love in the 010-11 season, when Love had 1 game with 0+ rebounds, including the amazing "1+1" on November 1, 010.

Love was once regarded as a data brush, his rebounding had a lot of water, and the same was true of Drummond, whose style of grabbing rebounds was quite similar to that of Love at the time.

At the Timberwolves, Love barely helped his teammates grab rebounds, and once threatened Michael Beasley that "you are not allowed to go to the restricted area to grab rebounds, you just need to be ready to shoot at all times." In the 01-14 season, in his last season with the Timberwolves, Love grabbed an average of 1.5 rebounds per game, creating only .8 rebounds for his teammates, and the non-confrontational rebounding ratio reached 61%.

Of Drummond's 19 rebounds, 10.4 came from non-confrontational rebounds, the most in the NBA, followed by Jordan Jr. at 8.9 and Howard at 8.0. As a result, Drummond's other statistic, that is, the ratio of rebounds to all rebounds, is not so exaggerated, 46.1%, ranking outside 0 among players who have played more than 5 games this season, and only 6th among players who have averaged more than 8 rebounds per game; Even rookie Porzingis is better than him — averaging 4.1 of his 9.0 rebounds per game.

Moreover, as the league's current rebounding champion, Drummond has not created many rebounding opportunities for his teammates, averaging only .4 per game, and is also in the middle and lower reaches of the league, Griffin, Tristan Thompson, Favors and Valanciunas are all better than him, and Love is the player who creates the most opportunities for his teammates, averaging 5.4 rebounds per game for his teammates - and this explains why after Love arrived with the Cavaliers, the rebounding statistics plummeted.

Under Dafan's tactical system, Drummond enjoyed the treatment that Love needed to be coerced and lured - against the Trail Blazers, he grabbed seven rebounds, of which he and his teammates had a chance to grab rebounds, and his teammates did not grab any of them.

We can conclude that Drummond's 19 rebounds are indeed suspected of being a "data brush", and if there are more card positions, it will create opportunities for teammates - there will be fewer rebounds per game; Reducing the rate of non-confrontational rebounds – 1.7 fewer rebounds per game would make him 15.6 rebounds per game – also a surprising statistic. You must know that last season's rebounding king averaged only 15.0 rebounds per game, and in the past 18 years, no rebounding king averaged 16 rebounds per game in a single season.

Without Big Van Gundy, Drummond could turn into a weakened version of Jordan Jr., and his career 9.7 percent free-throw percentage makes it easier to think of that.

But Dafan changed all that, from the Magic to the Pistons, his tactics never changed, every player outside of the center had to be able to dribble more and shoot in any place, forcing opponents to focus more on the perimeter and create one-on-one opportunities for the center as much as possible.

You can almost think of the Pistons in '015-16 as a replica of the Howard Magic - they all have a three-point No. 4, the Magic is Lewis, the Pistons are Ilyasova; Both have a playmaker who looks selfish, the Magic is Nelson Jr., and the Pistons are Reggie Jackson, but the Pistons are missing a Turkogru-style playmaker who pins their hopes on rookie Stanley Johnson.

At the same time, he has also found more mentors for his players. In Magic, Dafan brought in Patrick Ewing for Howard, and at Magic, he introduced Mutombo to Drummond, and perhaps it is no coincidence that Ewing and Mutombo taught their juniors hook hands. "If Drummond can shoot with a hook shot, no one can stop him," Mutombo said. ”

What we can predict is that as long as the Pistons can pass the ball to the inside according to Dafan's tactics, Drummond's shooting percentage will rise to about 58%, plus the increase in free throws, and the expected scoring can reach points, but his rebounds will fall, and his average will fall to 15 per game, +15, which is likely to be the best data expected of Drummond.

But even +15 is a stat that Dwight Howard has never gotten. (To be continued)