The 2021-22 season will also come to an end, and various media commentators have begun to summarize the best players of the season. Unlike Sports Illustrated and ESPN, the sports culture media The Ringer selects the best players of the season at the end of the season. Columnists must make a painful decision to select only the best 25 of the season:
(Voters included the following columnists: Dan Devine, Zach Kram, Rob Mahoney, J. Kyle Mann, Kevin O’Connor, Jonathan Tjarks)
Continuation of the previous article:NBA 2021-22 Final Star Rankings: No. 16-25
15. Trae Young
Team: Eagles (31-33)
Position: Defender
Beginning of the season rankings (ESPN):17
This season: 59 games, 27.8 points, 3.8 rebounds, 9.4 assists, 52.5 effective shooting percentage, +1.3 net plus-minus
Pick-and-roll is a staple of today’s NBA, and Trae Young is the best at pick-and-roll. He’s had 300 more screens than any other ball carrier this season, and the Hawks have averaged 1.04 points per possession through those possessions — fourth-best among players with 1,000+ pick-and-rolls in the league!
Clint Capela and Bogdan Bogdanovic’s poor performance this season affected the Eagles’ record, but Young was undisturbed. His ability to draw fouls has been cut by more than half, and his offensive performance is still unprecedented. According to the estimate of offensive plus-minus, Trae’s offensive performance this season is only slightly worse than the following three: Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid and Giannis Antetokounmpo, All are MVP contenders of the year!
14. Donovan Mitchell
Team: Jazz (40-24)
Position: Defender
Beginning of the season rankings (ESPN):18
This season: 52 games, 25.7 points, 4.0 rebounds, 5.4 assists, 53.6 effective shooting percentage, +7.9 net plus-minus
Who else in the league is better at picking and rolling points than Trae Young? That has to be Mitchell, he averages 1.07 points per pick-and-roll possession, and the Jazz are the top scoring machine in the league, definitely thanks to Mitchell’s scoring engine, he’s even better this season, in real Hit and assist percentage hit a new career high.
While Mitchell’s perimeter has slipped this season, he’s made up for it with the rim and mid-range — but he’s still third in the league in 3-pointers per game, ahead of only Stephen Curry and VanVleet. .
Further reading:How can the Jazz not repeat the same mistakes? Trade Conley, ball to Mitchell
13. Devin Booker
Team: Suns (52-13)
Position: Defender
Beginning of the season rankings (ESPN):15
This season: 54 games, 25.6 points, 5.2 rebounds, 4.6 assists, 51.1 effective shooting percentage, +8.4 net plus-minus
It seems a little disrespectful to place Booker at No. 13 as the main player on the league’s No. 1 team. The Suns went 21-2 from January until Chris Paul went down with an injury, with Booker playing a key role and the main reason why the Suns didn’t fall after CP3 came in for repairs.
Booker has already fulfilled everyone’s expectations of his career at the beginning, and has become a peerless offensive player, but his offensive skills are too dashing, almost relying on a clean mid-range jumper to score cleanly; although in recent years, He began to develop the ability to foul; however, affected by the referee’s scale this season, his foul production has dropped significantly, and his free throw rate (24.3%) has dropped to a career low.
12. Jayson Tatum
Team: Celtic (39-27)
Position: Striker
Beginning of the season rankings (ESPN):14
This season: 62 games, 26.5 points, 8.2 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 0.7 blocks, 50.6 effective shooting percentage, +9.7 net plus-minus
Top shooting ability, solid all-around defense, and more and more integration into his teammates, Jayson Tatum has reduced all doubts about his skills. With his top skill package in the league, he has truly become the best player in the Celtics. The “big green machine” that he relies on.
When it comes to the Celtics’ season comeback, Tatum is definitely the soul of it. Entering the fifth season of his career, as a three-time All-Star, he trusts his teammates more and attacks more intuitively. Tatum’s performance in the past few months It also proves that even as an elite star in the league, there are still infinite possibilities to break through the ceiling.