Get a maximum salary of 317 million yuan in five years, but loses the competitiveness of winning the championship! It will be difficult for Booker to rebuild the team in the future

There are more than two months left before the start of the NBA new season. From the NBA strength list to the ranking of Western Conference teams predicted by various US media in the new season, some clues can be roughly seen: the strongest team is still the Thunder. "Open-Air Stand" believes that the Thunder can reach the 62-win level in the new season, and the five teams including the Nuggets + Clippers + Rockets + Lakers + Timberwolves are expected to form a siege against the Thunder. The Lakers have three giants to guarantee the bottom. The Timberwolves have entered the Western Conference Finals for two consecutive years. In fact, the competition in the Western Conference will be very stalemate in the entire regular season. The third tier belongs to the four teams of Warriors + Spurs + Mavericks and Grizzlies. They have the chance to enter the playoffs, but each team has obvious shortcomings, such as the Warriors. The worst result is that they can only get the roster in October, and Kumingga plans to give up.

There is another team that is easily overlooked. They almost locked in the team in the bad direction, which is the Suns. In the official NBA strength list, the Suns have been hovering around 25th place. In the new season's Western Conference ranking forecast, the Suns cannot even reach the level of the Trail Blazers and Kings. During the offseason, the Suns sent Durant away, exchanged for Jaylen Green + Brooks + No. 10 (selected Maruac), bought out Bill, successfully lowered the team's salary to below the first luxury tax line. In addition, the Suns also exchanged for Ma Wei, renewing Booker's contract with a super maximum salary of 145 million yuan in two years. The new season is confirmed to be built around Booker and Jaylen Green. The iron-clad soldiers have been experiencing Paul, Durant, and Bill in the past five years. The teammates are coming and going, and they remain unmoved.

Let's start with Booker. After Booker completed his contract renewal, he has become one of the highest-paid players in the league. His salary in the next five years will be: 53.14 million + 57.08 million + 61.02 million + 69.88 million + 75.47 million, with a total maximum salary of 317 million in five years, with an average salary of 63.4 million! First of all, Booker has good scoring ability. In the past 7 seasons, only Booker and Antetokounmpo have been able to achieve 25+ in every season in the league, but the embarrassing thing is that Booker only has the scoring ability. It is impossible to expect him to have an offense and defense, one data proves that when Booker was on the court last season, the Suns' defensive efficiency was 120.4; when he was not on the court, the team's defensive efficiency was 115.3! It is even more difficult to count on him to organize and support the team: he averaged 7.1 assists per game last season, but his assist ratio was 22.4, and his 83rd place in the league!

can be simply understood as: Booker holds a lot of ball rights to control the offense, but the assist ratio is very different from his finishing ratio with the ball. He prefers to fight alone. The Suns' second scorer in the new season, locking in the young Jaylen Green, has a data. In the past 25 seasons, only six players in the league have been able to score 6,000 points + 1,300 rebounds + 1,000 assists in the first four years of their career, namely: James + Wade + Doncic + Edwards + Griffin, and the sixth player is Jaylen Green! But what is different from other stars is that the proportion of ball rights he assumes is too high and his efficiency is too low. After four years in the league, his shooting percentage hovered around 42%. Like Booker, he has no defense!

In the Rockets' environment where everyone takes pride in defense, last season, the team's defensive efficiency was 113.4 when Green was on the court, and the team's defensive efficiency was 107.4 when he was not on the court. Jaylen Green's On-Off value can be as low as -7.1, which directly explains why the Rockets are only willing to abandon Jaylen Green, not Shin Kyung, Xiao Jia or Ethan! Booker and Jaylen Green are like shadows of each other. Booker's efficiency is slightly higher, Green is lower, and they both like singles, so there is no need to watch other role players. The Suns lineup does not lack depth, and there is also Brooks + Allen + O'Neal + Marwit + Richards + Dunn, the team is ready to fight. However, when Durant was not there last season, Booker led the team alone and found that he could not win. Playoff tickets were just a luxury.

In the words of the Suns reporter, it is difficult to succeed in the combination of Booker + Jaylen Green. Both of them need to reduce inefficient singles strong shots, Green needs to increase the frequency of empty cuts (if Green is trained in the Rockets, the team will not easily trade him), and both of them need to lead their teammates as the initiator of the offense. Green puts it aside first. Booker has partnered with top stars like Paul and Durant in the past few years. Now he directly switched to Jaylen Green, but his efficiency is much worse. In addition, last season, Durant and Bill led the team, but they could not enter the playoffs. In the words of US media, the Suns must be prepared to lead Booker's two-year, $145 million maximum salary contract, and the team will not see any hope of winning the championship in the short term. But what about the long term? They are also not qualified to show off.

The Suns sent their first round picks for 31 years to the Jazz in January this year, in exchange for three first rounds (with the Cavaliers, equivalent to the second round pick). In addition, the first round swap rights in 26 years belong to the Wizards or Grizzlies, the first round picks in 27 years belong to the Rockets, the 28 years belong to the Knicks or the Nets, the first round picks in 29 years belong to the Rockets or the Nets, and the 30 years belong to the Wizards or Grizzlies! What else can I do? The boss Ishbiya said that the team will never be bad in the future, but the actual situation is: the team's record will only be at the bottom of the league; the Rockets, Wizards, and Grizzlies will also be allowed to pick up the melons. To be honest, it's a failure from top to bottom!