Why Leonard, who is so talented, was not selected by the team until the 15th pick in the 2011 draft

Although he has excellent talent, some of his shortcomings are also obvious. For example, his dribbling is poor and his shooting ability is also poor, and at the same time, the team awareness is poor, which is quite fatal, basketball as a team sport, if the team tacit understanding is not enough, it will inevitably lead to losing. We have to admit that Leonard does have excellent physical conditions, and his ability to attack and defend is also very good, and his low-post offensive ability is one of the few excellent.

However, there is no shortage of talented players in the league, so there are many players who are better than him before him, or their potential is more seen by these scouts. And after he was drafted by the Pacers that year, he was traded to the Spurs for George Hill. After that, Spurs head coach Popovich also publicly stated that he liked George Hill very much, but did not agree to the deal.

From this, we can also see that Maxima also has to have Bole Popovich did not become Leonard's Bole, and Leonard also lost a chance to play. Although not liked by Popovich, the end of the two ended against the sky, Hill, who had high hopes, became a substitute player, and Leonard became a superstar in the league. Therefore, its own strength is still very important, and gold will shine in **.

Some people also say that Ronald is a piece of jade, and after Popovich's cultivation of him in the later period, he discovered his potential, and gradually began to be the only important thing for him。And he himself has developed a variety of offensive means to compensate for his own shortcomings. He often creates runs on the court, creates shooting opportunities, and works his three-point shooting ability, and his dribbling ability has improved significantly.

Although his talent is good, his actual ability is not very strong, so he does not have a good advantage in the draft.

I don't know, probably because his strength is still a little worse, otherwise there would be no such result.

Maybe I didn't play well in the game at the time, and then I played steadily.

Although his talent is good, he can't play well in the field.

First of all, Leonard's physical fitness is not the top, it can only be said to be superior, even if the sprint speed on the field is better than that of the guard, but his lateral speed is very slow, resulting in poor defense, and the breakthrough speed in the offense is not good enough, and at the same time lacks the absolute speed in the transition offense, not the kind of freak who properly locks the champion purely by physical fitness.

The second is that Leonard did not perform well in college, and there is still a big gap compared to the rookies at that time, he is really just a piece of jade with extremely rough skills, and many teams in the NBA are full of doubts about his future, and at the same time, they have no confidence in their team's ability to cultivate rookies. Leonard's projection performance is extremely bad, the 2011 rookie evaluation report stated that his scoring limbs, jump shots, and singles per round are basically ranked first, and the shooting percentage is the bottom of the rookies at that time, and at the same time, the positional battle lacks effective means of scoring with the ball, and the defensive end is also extremely frivolous, and the defensive end is easy to cover, in fact, if there is no training and polishing of Popovich and others, there will be no good level.

Then Leonard doesn't have enough successful experience, and some big companies recruit interns and have to look for experienced ones, let alone recruit professional basketball players, in fact, this can't be blamed on him, because in the past, it was generally believed that the ceiling of this kind of player was not high and it was difficult to become the core of the team, so the NBA draft did not favor this kind of player, in fact, it was only after Leonard's success that the teams began to choose this kind of body Songbi has excellent quality.

Finally, Leonard had bad luck, because that year's draft was arguably a lot of rookies who were doing well in college and looked more promising and had a brighter future, such as the talented Kyrey. Owen, Clay. Thompson and others, based on player positioning, skill and college performance, Leonard was not outstanding in it, and there was quite a gap between him and these hot lottery shows at the time.

Taken together, these points determined that Leonard was drafted by the Pacers with the 15th pick.

First of all, Leonard's physical fitness is very good, not the top in decades, and second, Leonard's performance in college is not particularly good, and there is a big gap between Leonard's college performance and the rookies in the lottery area. Third, Leonard's position in the draft was that of a role player, a defensive sapper wing with good physical qualities, rather than some first-class star, the core of the team. Fourth, players like Leonard haven't had enough success before, and the league's teams lack the experience to develop this type of player, and fifth, that year's NBA Draft can be said to have a lot of rookies who did well in college and looked more promising and had a brighter future.

Leonard's physical fitness is not the top, it can only be said that he is superior, and his sprint speed on the field is even better than that of the guards, but his tanchang's lateral movement speed is particularly slow, resulting in poor defense, and the breakthrough speed in the offense is not excellent in the attack, and he also lacks the speed of the handwheel in the transition offense. There is also the fact that Leonard's performance in college was not particularly good, and there was still a big gap compared to the rookies at that time.

I think it's because Leonard is physically gifted, but there are certain flaws.

This is when the ** is estimated, after all, it is comprehensively considered, the draft year is evaluated according to physical fitness, height, dribbling and other factors, in one is the matter of draft picks, you may be very good, but the team did not choose that it is the bottom of the rank, a lot of superstars are not in high order, such as Jordan, the god of basketball, and there are a lot of people who are optimistic about the results of the champion list that is not good.

What is the knight's name, it's not useless; Draft picks aren't all accurate, it depends on how they develop after entering the league.

This has nothing to do with the order, the probability of success is higher with a high rank, and the later development of a low rank is also good, and some are in the second round, and they also play very well.

This has to start with Leonard's rookie stats, when his shooting was not as accurate as it is now. At the time of the physical test, he was 198 centimeters tall on his bare feet, 221 centimeters in arm span, and 269 centimeters tall on standing, all of which were among the top among small forwards. But there's one flaw, and that's his athleticism.

Leonard's vertical take-off height is 68 centimeters, which is only 5 centimeters taller than Yao Ming! With a maximum take-off height of 81 centimeters, he can barely pass among small forwards, and his switchbacks are not very fast, making many scouts feel that he is not athletic. His college years weren't really impressive, and in his sophomore season, Leonard averaged points and rebounds per game to lead San Diego State to the round of 16.

So I can't get a high order.

Some people believe that traditional sports refer to the sports activities inherited by the ancestors in the region or race, so they overlap with the content of folk sports activities to a certain extent, and even have a subordinate relationship between the two.

The study believes that folk sports are spread among the people, and folk sports have strong national characteristics and local colors, and are traditional forms of sports, which make them strictly different from modern Western sports forms.

There are also good late-stage developments with low rankings, and some are second-rounders, and they also play very well.

If you want to talk about the most popular star player of recent times, it's definitely Leonard, the new king of the Velociraptors. After a year's sideout due to injury, the Spurs returned to Toronto. Take the team directly to the next level.

Speaking of Leonard, what impressed everyone the most was the death entanglement of his almost locked opponents. Today, Leonard has grown into an all-around superstar who is both offensive and defensive.

At the time, Leonard was only 15 years old. The Spurs don't think Leonard will be such a superstar today. They just want him to come off the bench to defend.

The Spurs only looked at his excellent defensive prowess. However, aside from his defensive abilities, Leonard was only superior to the average person's reach at the time, and all of his talents were directed towards defense. In other respects, Leonard doesn't have much of an advantage over other stars of the same period.

Offensively, Leonard was completely mediocre at the time.

Today is different from the past. Leonard has made rapid progress with the Spurs over the past few years. Not only is he good at defending, but he is also getting stronger and stronger offensively.

Knowing that he has achieved such an achievement today must be inseparable from his hard work and diligence since joining the alliance. Maybe it's because the Spurs see Leonard's improvement, so his departure won't be accepted by the fans.

Leonard was so talented that he was drafted that year because he was young and inexperienced. It can also be said that it has not been excavated. Therefore there is only |5 picks!

At the time of the draft, Leonard was still young and had little experience.

That also shows that they are very competitive, which is why it is so.

The Leonard of the past is not the Leonard of now, people will change.

It may have been discovered later, which is the so-called back-end force.

Because he was young at the time, he was not favored by the Spurs.

Then the scouts can only be blamed for not finding him.

I didn't find out his strength, so he didn't go into battle.

Kawhi Leonard, a rookie in 2011, wrote in his draft report that the player was physical, defensive, had some low-post offensive skills, had poor shooting ability, didn't have the ability to handle the ball, and lacked the necessary team mentality. From this report, we can see that Leonard's strengths and weaknesses are just as distinct, but as a small forward player, not being able to handle the ball and poor scoring ability are really two fatal flaws.

Therefore, it is more reasonable for Leonard to be selected with the fifteenth pick in the draft that year. Although Leonard was a meter tall and had a pair of big hands, he was introduced to basketball very late, and it is said that Leonard did not officially take up basketball until his sophomore year of high school, before which he was a football player.

2011 wasn't a big year for drafts, but it did produce a number of very talented players. For example, Kyrie Irving was the top pick, Kanter was the third pick, Tristan Thompson was the fourth pick, Valanciunas was the fifth pick, Kemba Walker was the ninth pick, Klay Thompson was the eleventh pick, the Morris brothers were the twelfth and thirteenth picks, Vucevic was the sixteenth pick, and Jimmy Butler was the third pick. But now it seems that among these players, Leonard is the best one.

And it was not the San Antonio Spurs that drafted Leonard that year, but the Indiana Pacers, but after the draft, the Pacers traded with the Spurs, and the Pacers sent Leonard and got George Hill, and the Spurs' coach Popovich complained about it. But it turns out that after several years of growth with the Spurs, Leonard's power on the defensive end has been fully discovered, and with a pair of big hands and "death entanglement" stunt, Leonard has become one of the best outside defenders of the century. And Leonard's shooting percentage has gradually increased, and after trading to the Raptors, his power on the offensive end has also been unleashed.