Data Analysis: What is NBA center Miles Turner s level

Indiana Pacers center Miles Turner has a joke. He was selected by the Pacers in 2015. However, it is rumored that he did not buy a property in Indianapolis, but has been renting a house in a luxury villa in the suburbs. The main reason why he does not buy a house is often placed on the shelves and his life is full of uncertainty. So whenever he plays well, fans comment "buy a house quickly". Once he plays poorly, fans comment: "You'd better not buy a house." He has been playing for the Pacers for a full ten years.

Eason Chan sang in the song "Ten Years": "If those two words did not tremble, I wouldn't find me uncomfortable. No matter how I say it, it would be just a breakup." This season is the year of Turner's contract. According to the latest report by the famous American journalist Shams, the Pacers' management has begun to initiate contract renewal negotiations with Turner, and the team is preparing to pay luxury tax next season. In other words, Turner has the opportunity to get a contract with a higher annual salary of 20 million yuan than the current 20 million yuan. So what level is Turner now? Today's Star Test will bring you Turner's data analysis.

on June 4, the United States Among the top 100 NBA 2024-25 season updated by ringer website, Turner ranked 85th at the beginning of the season, dropped to 87th at the end of the regular season, and rose to 76th before the start of the finals, ranking 4th in the Pacers (Haliburton No. 7th in the league, Siakam No. 23rd in the league, and Nembhard No. 74th in the league). It can be seen that due to his outstanding performance in the playoffs, his reputation has increased greatly. The website comments are as follows:

projection, blocking centers and potential trades Hall of Fame player

Turner has become the ultimate survivor of the NBA trade deadline. The big man has been playing for the Pacers for ten years - so long that his ID card is almost impossible to see clearly. Almost every season (including this season) he is a regular on the trading rumors board. During this period, Turner's strengths and weaknesses have also changed dramatically. He was a candidate for the best defensive player of the year and his offensive skills have matured. Now his outside shooting efficiency and shooting percentage have reached career highs - bringing him closer to an offensive expert.

Although every team has been eager to fill up shooters in every position recently, it is still difficult to find a player like Turner who is of a size and three-point ability. Although his blocking rate may exaggerate his overall influence on the defensive end, he still has a strong deterrent power at the basket and blocks his opponents multiple times in every game. He may not be the most ideal No. 5 position for coach Carlisle, or lacks rebounding ability or is not strong enough in the game, but compared to a center who can shoot, keep up with the Pacers' offensive rhythm and creates threats on the defensive end, other options will have more bad problems. The Pacers know this well. They have tried other options, but in the end they chose Turner.

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IMHO, there is nothing wrong with those 13 players who don't like Halliburton (13 players have previously selected Harry as the most overrated player), but the point guard is not even the most underrated player on his team. During the decade when Turner played for Indiana, the Pacers had the idea of ​​trading him about 137 times, and even offered a maximum salary offer to DeAndre Ayton three years ago. However, the center, who played alongside Paul George and Monta Ellis in the early years of his career, has now become a key figure in the team's free and unrestrained "five-for-one tactics" system - it is this system that sends the new generation of Pacers to the NBA Finals. Turner is not dominant on both offense and defense, but he has the rare qualities of opening up space and protecting the basket, which allows Indiana's fast-paced offense to run smoothly without sacrificing defensive strength. For such a long time, keeping Turner, who is about to become a free agent, is no longer a helpless compromise, but an important task that must be accomplished. There is a classic line in the movie "Infernal Affairs": "It is often things that change people, but people cannot change things." Through the website introduction, you should feel that Turner's style of play has not changed. He was not perfect in the team system in the past, but perfectly adapted in the system dominated by Halliburton. He has three characteristics of adapting to the new system, 1 can keep up with the team's rapid offensive rhythm, 2 can open up space, and 3 can protect the frame. Then I will present these three characteristics with data.

Indiana Pacers are a team that emphasizes fast-paced offense and defense conversion. This season, they have completed offense and defense every 48 minutes and ranked 7th in the league. The reason why they often perform reversals at the last moment is because the team uses fast-paced offense and defense to drag down their opponent's physical fitness, and their opponents can always lead, but when the opponent's physical fitness is in crisis at the last moment, the Pacers' opportunity comes. The first thing to win is paper, the final settlement is money, and winning is the best.

The fast pace requires extremely high demands on big center players, which is like letting Yao Ming play bombardment. If he does not have physical reserves and running ability, he will be useless after two or three sprint rounds. Turner, a 2.11-meter-long big man, can adapt to the fast pace of the Pacers, and maintain a high level on both ends of the offense and defense. This is his greatest capital from being optional to indispensable.

This season, Turner ranked 15th among all centers in the league with 30.2 minutes per game, and ranked 14th among all centers in the league. Converted to the running distance per minute, it is 120 meters per minute. The big players with the best mobile ability in the league are compared. Harten runs 126 meters per minute, Collins 123 meters, Markkanen 122 meters, and Evan Mobley 121 meters. It can be seen that within the 30-minute playing time range, Turner's physical reserve and running ability are in the first place among the center..

In the playoffs, his average playing time remained at 30.2 minutes, ranking 13th in the league, with his running distance increasing to 3,637 meters, and ranked 12th among all centers in the league. Converted to the running distance per minute, it is 120.4 meters. In the playoff stage where the game is more intense, the confrontation is more intense, and the schedule is closer, Turner still maintains excellent physical fitness and running ability.

Then look at the ability to open up space in the second event. Turner's inside scores accounted for 51%, the three-point line scored 49%, the assisted score accounted for as high as 90%, and the autonomous score accounted for 10%. It can be seen that he is a scoring tool with balanced scores on the inside and outside.

In the playoff stage, the proportion of inside scores increased to 60%, the proportion of outside the three-point line score dropped to 40%, the proportion of assisted scores was still as high as 90%, and the proportion of independent scores accounted for 10%. In the playoff stage with more defensive intensity, his proportion of outside the three-point line scores decreased.

NBA center player pick-and-roll cake is a special skill. I won't mention it today. Let's mainly look at Turner's second trait, the shooting ability to create space on the outside. In the regular season, Turner ranked first among the Pacers with 356 shots outside the three-point line, and ranked 17th in the league (the first in the league is Beasley's 568 times). His shooting percentage of 143 goals is 40.2% is an excellent level. The most accurate receiving pitchers outside the three-point line in the regular season are Durant and Isaiah Joe. The two of them have 45.6% and 45.4% of the three-point shooting percentages of the two have reached 45.6% and 45.4% respectively.

The autonomy shot and shot 34 times and hit 12 goals, with a 35.3% shooting percentage as a barely qualified level.

In the playoff stage, as of June 9, Turner had 57 catches outside the three-point line and ranked second in the Pacers (Nei Smith made 80 shots), with a 42% shooting percentage of 24 shots. In fact, in addition to Turner, several Pacers' outside receiver scorers broke out in the playoff stage. Nei Smith received the ball and made 40 of 80 shots and shots as high as 50%, Siakam made 23 of 49 shots and 47% of shooting percentage, and Neimbuhad made 3. 42% from 16 of 8 shots, Ben Shepard made 11 of 24 shots, 45.8% from 11 of 2, Bryant made 8 of 14 shots, and 57% from 17 shots, McConnell made 50% from 5 of 10 shots, and this kind of terrifying hit rate is almost 1 of 2 shots. The Pacers often make magical reversals. The only worse thing is that Mathurin made 6 of 19 shots, with a shooting percentage of only 31.6%. He is a dogtail grass among the flowers. In the first game of the finals, fans would joke that if Mathurin was allowed to play more, the Thunder would win.

Finally, there is the third franchise protection ability. The opponents in the regular season averaged 14.9 shots per game in Turner's defense, ranking first among the Pacers, and ranked 18th among all centers in the league. The opponent hit 7.3 goals under his defense, with a shooting percentage of 48.6%, reducing the opponent's shooting percentage by 0.7 percentage points on average. This reduction rate can only be considered a general level. Currently, the high-arm monster Chett, Homgren, Vinbanyama, and Porzingis, a top-level high-arm monster, averaged 6 percentage points on average, while Davis, Gobert, and Kessler, a second-level averaged 3-6 percentage points on average.

In the playoff stage, the opponent averaged 15.5 shots under Turner's defense, ranked first among the Pacers, and ranked seventh among all centers in the league. The opponent hit 7.2 goals under his defense, with a shooting percentage of 46.8%, reducing the opponent's shooting percentage by 5.2 percentage points on average. It can be seen that in 17 playoff games, Turner's reserve requirement ratio reduction rate has been greatly improved.

In terms of playing against stars, he was very good at defending Portis and Daluo in the first round of the playoffs, with the opponent's shooting percentage being less than 50%. The efficiency of defending Antetokounmpo was average, Antetokounmpo's shooting percentage was 51.4%. The second round of defense Allen and Mobley's introspection were very poor, and both of them had average shooting percentages of more than 70%, but the two of them had average scoring ability. The two brothers combined a total of 30 attacks in the box in 5 games, so Turner's defensive pressure was not great. It was not until the Knicks that Turner's defensive shortcomings began to be exposed. He defended Towns against 32 points and 152 rounds, and Towns made 23 of 41 shots and hit a 56.1% shooting percentage, of which the three-pointers were 8 of 11 shots, which was as high as 72.7%. It can be seen that he was struggling to defend Towns.

As the website commented, Turner has excellent blocking ability, and averages 2 blocks per game. He has sent 144 blocks this season, ranking third in the league, only lower than Wenban Yama 176 times and Lopez 148 times. However, the blocking ability may make everyone overestimate his defensive influence. In fact, his defensive efficiency can only be considered a general level in the center, and there are problems in defensive position selection and defensive skills. He is not a big gate with defensive dominance. This is the biggest reason why the team often wants to trade him. In addition, Turner has another disadvantage, which is the poor rebounding ability, which is the secret ability of center players.

Turner's defense and rebounding shortcomings will be magnified for a team competing for championships, but the Pacers are definitely the best team to suit him. I hope he can seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and win the highest honor for himself.