Have offense and defense! Congratulations to the Lakers, signed an enhanced version of Kuzma?

Since joining the Bucks in the 24-25 season, Kuzma has averaged 14.5 points per game, shooting percentage of 45.5%, and real shooting percentage of 54.5%. Regarding the offense, it needs to be explained: after receiving the pass from Lillard, Kuzma broke through, got rid of the defender, played a European step in front of Embiid and then easily made a layup.

Kuzma broke through 481 times in this season and shot a total of 48.4%. The number of breakthroughs is generally not much different from that of Siakam (485 times) and Wiggins (443 times); the breakthrough hit rate is as different as Siakam (53.8%), but it is ahead of Anunobi (42.9%).

In short, Kuzma has a second-in-chief breakthrough quantity but a quality between the third-in-chief and the role player.

received a pass from Prince, and Kuzma played Maxi with his back, unable to get rid of the choice to turn over and end the attack.

Kuzma intends to increase the proportion of mid-range shots in this quarter, reaching a career-high of 11.7%. The only drawback is that the shooting rate is only 36.1% - average, not a killer move, but it can still end occasionally.

After 8 seasons of training, Kuzma can be said to be able to hold the ball without blind spots in the offensive end on the offensive end, but none of them has reached the best level. To put it bluntly, everything is easy. It would be fine if it was just positioned as a character player, but the Bucks gave up All-Star Middleton for him. Obviously, this was positioning Kuzma as the core player, and the latter's performance was unqualified - the playoff series against the Pacers, when he was present, the team scored 5.8 points less in a hundred rounds.

As for the defensive end, it is even more unqualified from the perspective of the real defensive positive and negative values ​​of career-1.1. It is not difficult to understand why the Bucks are selling Kuzma with strong offense and no stable scoring methods.

Received a pass from Laven, Laravia first made a fake shot and broke away from the defender who rushed forward, and then chose a European step to make a layup against Prince's defense.

From this round, it can be clearly seen that as a relatively large white player, Laravia's explosive power is average, but she shows a certain ending ability.

In fact, as a fixed-point pitcher (the proportion of three-point shooting in his career accounts for as high as 50.2%), Laravia also has certain ability to hold on to the end of the shooting - a career breakthrough finishing shooting rate of 46.8% and a mid-range shooting rate of 37.5%. Of course, the average of 3.1 breakthroughs in his career and the 3.3% mid-range shots account for a small proportion. But the problem is that as shown in the two rounds just now, you can still grasp the scoring opportunity when it appears.

Speaking of this, unlike most white players such as Reeves and Ingles, Laravia has relatively good confrontational abilities.

can block Antetokounmpo who has sprinted with all his strength, and there is no problem in knocking the former down after physical confrontation. Even if you look at the league, such as Davis, Gobert, Kessler, etc., you dare not say that you can do it every round. From the side, Laravia's ability to confrontation is indeed good.

Based on good confrontational ability, Laravia's real plus-minus defense value has been 0.3 so far in his career. Among the players who only target fixed-point pitchers, Laravia is one of the few players who can attack and defend.

For Laravia, I think it is the existence of the enhanced version of Kuzma.

Reason 1: Features.

Kuzma also has the ball holding, off-balling, and shooting Laravia. On the contrary, the defense that the latter has is not what the former does.

Reason 2: Opportunity.

First of all, let’s not talk about Finney Smith having left the team. Just looking at the contract signed by Pelinka for 2 years and 12 million yuan in the new season, Redick will also give Laravia a chance to perform.

To sum up two points, the "enhanced version" is more reflected in the fact that Laravia has the defensive ability that Kuzma does not have, and the opportunity guarantees the output of combat power to a certain extent.

Finally, if you seize the opportunity, it is not ruled out that Laravia is likely to become another inspirational player in the NBA.