Thank you.

As for Yao Ming's softness, Yao Ming's inability to pass the ball, and Yao Ming's poor defense...... Well, I'm sorry, at the peak of Yao Ming, these crimes were all old Huang Li.

Let's talk about it slowly.

Let's talk about the selection of Yao Ming's peak period first.

In the 2002-03 season, he averaged 29 minutes per game, 82 appearances and 2,383 minutes. He averaged 14 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists per game.

In the 2003-04 season, he averaged 33 minutes per game, 82 appearances and 2,692 minutes. He averaged 18 points, 9 rebounds and 2 assists per game.

In the 2004-05 season, he averaged 31 minutes per game, 80 appearances and 2,447 minutes. Averaged 18 points, 8 rebounds and 1 assist per game (Maddie in the first season of the Rockets)

In the 2005-06 season, he averaged 34 minutes per game, made 57 appearances, and played 1,949 minutes. He averaged 22 points, 10 rebounds and 2 assists per game.

In the 2006-07 season, he averaged 34 minutes per game, making 48 appearances and 1,624 minutes. He averaged 25 points, 9 rebounds and 2 assists per game.

In the 2007-08 season, he averaged 37 minutes per game, made 55 appearances, and played 2,044 minutes. He averaged 22 points, 11 rebounds and 2 assists per game. (In the past three years, Maddie has also been injured, so Yao Ming and his data are actually very mixed)

Said in stages.

In the 2002-05 season, Yao Ming features:

- Extremely flexible compared to later; At the same time, emaciated.

- There are quite a few mid-range shots after the pick-and-roll is activated and shots after the mid-range key is shot.

- A little trick that has been praised by the whole United States.

At this stage, Yao Ming's disadvantages:

- Lack of strength, or deep position.

- The defensive details are not solid enough. Associated with confrontation.

- Unable to stabilize as the first point of attack.

In the 2005-08 season, Yao Ming features:

- The strength skyrocketed, and he began to fight a lot of singles on his left waist and back.

- has become one of the league's strongest interior finishers. "Feed him the ball and he will score".

- Truly dominate the restricted area, and dominate near the basket on both offensive and defensive ends.

At this stage, Yao Ming's disadvantages:

- Not good at dealing with flanking attacks.

- The problem of slow movement makes it easy to be bypassed.

- The defensive range is insufficient, so there is always a bit of a headache against the Suns (Stoudemire).

It is generally believed that Yao Ming's peak was the 2006-07 season, because the data is indeed the best.

Here's why:

- In the 2008-09 season, Yao Ming's stats declined, but that was due to the reduction in his playing time and weight.

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- The rocket routine of that year can be roughly summarized as:

Yao Ming plays the axis in the left waist, and Scola responds with the high position in the right waist; Adelman's position is actually a bit like a triangle attack, Yao Ming can play alone if he can't, quickly move to the weak side, and Scola starts attacking for the high post axis.

——In the 2008-09 season, Yao Ming's routine of "forcing singles with his body" was reduced, and more of it was a clean and fast turnover. He averaged 20 points per game on staggering 55 percent shooting and played the best defense of his career.

- Yao Ming that year, it's really time to "either block Yao Ming with all your might, and let the rocket hit the right waist and the two of you will turn and whip you; Either you let Yao Ming slaughter you". That year's rocket really came to the point of "we just rely on Yao Ming, and what routine you have, we all have a way to deal with it".

Written in February 2009:

In the 2002-05 season, Yao Ming was flexible and delicate, but not hard enough.

In the 2005-08 season, Yao Ming was tough but ferocious, but not healthy enough and not flexible enough.

And the 2008-09 season, this is a season in which Yao Ming really overcame his various problems and became the axis of the team. Fewer turnovers, timely transfers, effective containment, and still maintaining the league's top offensive and defensive ability in the penalty area.

In the 2008-09 season, he was on the NBA's Second Team of the Year, and against NBA First Team Center Dwight:

Yao Ming had 22 points and 13 rebounds, and Dwight had 13 points and 9 rebounds.

Yao Ming had 20 points and 16 rebounds, and Dwight had 13 points and 10 rebounds.

Moreover, he led the team to take out the Trail Blazers, and the Rockets reached the second round for the first time since 1997.

Facing the Lakers, he was injured in the first game, and he had 28 points and 10 rebounds. In the third game where he fell, he had 19 points and 14 rebounds. His opponent is the league's No. 1 interior wall of Bynum + Gasol + Odom.

Yao Ming in 2009 was the actual No. 1 center in the NBA. The first person in the comprehensive attack and defense of the penalty area.

It's as simple as that.

He was the best interior scorer in the NBA that year, the best interior center, and a center who could win as a big man. Either way to deal with him (going around, flanking), the rocket has a corresponding routine as a counterattack, and he is the only axis.

Revisiting his 28 points, 10 rebounds, and wins on the Lakers' home court:

In the first three quarters, he patiently turned over and hooked hands, stepped back to shoot jumpers, especially a large number of jumpers that turned to the baseline direction. Physical contact is avoided and the feel remains stable. It's really easy, and the Lakers can't control him at all.

But in the fourth quarter, after the Lakers' classic pressure on the ball came, he couldn't be light. When he got to the free throw line, he pressed his knee with his hand: he never rested, and he was tired.

And then came the moment: a knee with Kobe Bryant and a fall.

Then: he went into the hallway, refused to go back to the locker room, talked to the doctor, put his hands on the wall and moved his legs, and then came back.

This is not the first time. In Game 7 of the 1970 Finals, Willis Reed limped down the aisle of Madison Garden and walked towards Chamberlain. "It's going wild!" This was called to himself by the New York narrator at the time, who later admitted that he could not hear it; In the first game of the 2008 finals, Paul Pearce walked out of the aisle, and the garden was a tsunami again.

So there was Brooks' down-and-down save, and Yao Ming's consecutive free throws to score. Staples Arena GET RED, a red cliff red. On the surface of the three rivers, the sky is full of the earth. The so-called tough guy is not to stab the opponent down with a set of gorgeous wind-chasing swords; Instead, he was still smiling with blood from the corners of his eyes, and he was almost unable to stand up because of the severe pain in his knees, and he still stood there with his hands open, silent. It is such a person who has the most bright red blood, the blazing red that can set off the east wind and the fire.

The first win against the Lakers was the true pinnacle of his career. He was injured, fell, and came back, and the Lakers' three major interior lines and Kobe Bryant at his peak just couldn't stop him.

You have to know: before the series in 2009, it was accepted that it was actually the stage for these two men.

It's quite difficult to talk about Yao Ming now, because after so many years, his shortcomings have become lighter, and then, turning his head to look at today's league, the center is crooked, and Yao Ming's image seems to have become a little taller than before.

But to sum up, since it is said to be the peak, intercept 05-06 to 08-09

Let's talk about the offensive end first, low-post singles are Yao Ming's offensive methods at his peak. If you want to talk about Yao Ming's greatest talent, his height, lower body strength and touch are undoubtedly the top. Yao Ming at his peak was impossible to be defended by anyone in the case of a low-level individual defense. Left and right straight arm hooks (the range can be outside the paint area), and the jump shot after turning over on the left and right sides are basically not likely to interfere with defenders, not to mention that Yao Ming is also a free thrower with a career shooting rate of 83.3%.

However, the shortcomings that accompany it cannot be ignored.

In my opinion,

Yao Ming's passing is not outstanding among good centers, and can only be said to be passing, with assist rates of only 9.8%, 12.3%, 11.5%, and 10.0% respectively from 05-06 to 08-09 (this level is similar to Ewing). In contrast, we chose the new generation of Cousins, the Mesozoic Howard and Marc Gasol, and the old man's O'Neal and Duncan (Duncan was chosen because he was a lot of the center position).

In the early and middle stages of Yao's career (there were a lot of aura passes during the Rookie period, which faded away), he was not good at passing the ball out in the post position, especially when he was trapped. The passing outside of the post in the later stage is considered qualified, but the timing is not excellent. The lack of strength in the upper limbs is one of the reasons, and the other is that it is not treated by the referee. At the peak of Yao Ming, he experienced two head coaches, one is Xiao Fan (9.8% and 12.3% during the period), and the other is Adelman (11.5% and 10.0% during the period).

Cousins, who has been in the industry for five years, has an assist rate of 14.7 9.5 15.3 17.8 20.4 respectively.

Howard, who was at the peak of his time with the Magic from 07-08 to 11-12, had an assist rate of just 6.1 7.3 8.7 6.8 9.8. Therefore, he is not enough to be the offensive core and hub of the team, and in the best times of the Magic, he has to rely on Tekoglu's playmaking and ball sharing.

Marc Gasol, 11-12 so far, has an assist rate of 14.1 19.1 17.7 19.7. He can be a pivot on the offensive end, but his lacklustre individual offensive ability limits him to further his role as an offensive hub (shooting 39.9 percent from the playoffs in the previous two years).

O'Neal, who averaged an assist rate of 16.6 during his eight seasons with the Lakers.

Duncan, with an assist percentage of 16.5 throughout his career, had his lowest season of 12.1.

The above two people don't talk about it, and there is no doubt that they deserve the title of offensive core.

In today's view, one of the main reasons why there are fewer post up players is that from a singles point of view, a good post up player will make your single play very efficient, but from the perspective of the whole team, straight post up is one of the least efficient ways to attack because of its predictability and its stagnation. On the other hand, the tactical possibilities brought by blocking or breaking are much greater, and the whole offense is much smoother.

When Yao Ming was at his peak, his speed was not slow. Even though his low-post singles are efficient, his pace makes the team's offense very stagnant and very predictable. Many times, after Yao Ming is in a good position and then gets the ball, the time is usually only about 15 seconds, and when a team organizes an attack when the offensive time is only 15 seconds, it is difficult to get a shot.

The most important point is that Yao Ming has a very obvious shortcoming on the offensive end, that is, he is afraid of going around the front and being caught in the middle of the ball (of course, the level of teammates is not high, so that many teams will generously release players on the weak side to contain Yao Ming when facing the Rockets).

The best example of this is the first round of the '09 playoffs against the Trail Blazers, after scoring 24 points on 9-of-9 shooting in the first game, the second and third games were only 3-of-6 and 2-of-7 respectively, which was very embarrassing. But in the next three games, I got my feeling back (after all, it depends on the whole team to give the ball), seven out of fourteen, seven out of twelve, and eight out of sixteen.

The reason for this example is that the center forward position has its own limitations, because they can't take the ball themselves to attack, and they need to rely on defenders or strikers to get the ball in order to continue attacking. And Yao Ming is limited by his own speed and ability to get the ball, and it is a big problem to get the ball.

It's not quite the same as the Sharks and Duncan, first of all, they're both flexible in their prime. Second, their low-post singles are also masters that no one is afraid of. On top of that, both of them are good players, easy to get on the ball and easy to get on the ball in the early shot clock.

Yao Ming is a good finisher on the offensive end, but he is not a good offensive initiator and offensive hub, which is why he can't be the core of a championship-contending team alone.

Let's talk about the defensive end.

Due to his height, long arms and bulk, Yao Ming is a very good frame protector. Thanks to the basketball IQ and thick body, the one-on-one low-post defense is also commendable, and if you want to eat Yao Ming one-on-one in the low post, the pressure is great.

In addition, Houston, with Yao Ming as the defensive core, has always been at the top of the defensive efficiency list, 05-06 seventh, 06-07 third, 07-08 second, 08-09 fifth, which is not terrifying (note that during the change of coach, Xiao Fan for Adelman, it still did not affect the defensive efficiency, source:).

But the shortcomings are also very obvious, just one word, slow. It's too slow. Specifically refers to the peak period, and the rookie period is still relatively flexible.

In modern basketball, being slow on the defensive end means one thing – you can't defend it, you can't get it back. Basically, you can only use zone up (i.e., standing at the top of the paint area, one person forms a zone). As shown in the figure below,

What does this mean? It's that one person has to face the threat of attack from two people. To guard against the middle distance of the ball carrier, you should worry about the wall man going down or pulling up. Coupled with the aura of the Rockets' guards on top of the ATM, Yao Ming is under even more pressure.

Let's take a look at Yao Ming's on/off data in the playoffs, that is, the changes in the data of a player's presence and absence, his own team and the opposing team's data.

04-05 Hit the calves

07-08 Hit Jazz

08-09 Hit the Trail Blazers and Lakers

03-04 Beat the Lakers

Pay attention to the opponent ORtg column, which is the opponent's offensive efficiency.

In each of the above playoffs, when Yao Ming was on the court, the opponent's offensive efficiency was higher than when Yao Ming was not on the court, increasing by 15.1, 6.4, 1.2, and 6.2 respectively. This has to be said that it was the adjustment made by the playoff team to Yao Ming that greatly exposed Yao Ming's shortcomings on the defensive end.

Compare it to Hibbert.

2010-2011

2011-2012

2012-2013

2013-2014

As can be seen from the above, only one of the four playoff games that Hibbert has experienced has been more offensive efficient when he is on the court than when he is not on the court, at 1.7. The remaining three times, when he was present, the opponent's offensive efficiency was reduced by 1.0, 5.3, and 8.4, respectively.

Finally, to sum up,