12 minutes 20 minutes & Mathering: Indiana Kumingga

Advantages: Excellent physical fitness, good at using your athletic ability to complete attacks and attacks, good at switching, and good at random battles; strong single defense ability, sufficient size and strong body make the defense lower limit higher, and have certain misaligned defense switching ability.

Disadvantages: The ability to combine people and balls is average, and the ability to continuously create offense through dribbling is not possible. Holding the ball is rid of the serious lack of rhythm changes and reading of defense. Relying more on explosive power and speed advantages to get rid of the opponent, the offensive efficiency is average, and the probability of mistakes is high; lack of awareness of defense without the ball, poor ability to cover, poor assisted defense, and the attention of the court is easily affected by emotions and has greater fluctuations.

The above description you may think I am talking about Mathering, but it is actually completely applicable to the Seventh Prince of Golden State.

In this Pacers team that has entered the Eastern Conference Finals for two consecutive years and is only one step away from the finals, Mathering is the person with the highest draft pick, with the 6th pick in 2022. With such talent, people expect him to form a team's backcourt double gun with Halliburton to jointly carry the glory of the revival of Inn City, but the trajectory of the story is not the case.

22-23 season, in the first year of rookie, Matherin averaged 16.7 points, 4.1 rebounds and 1.5 assists, successfully ranked among the first team of the best rookie team, and squeezed out Hilder in the late season to become the team's starter. Unexpectedly, in the 23-24 season, Matherin was squeezed back to the bench by Hilder after only 12 starts, and still played the sixth man after Hilder was traded to Philadelphia. He was soon reimbursed due to injury, and the second round pick of the same year became Nemhard. This season, Matherin started with Nemhard at one time, but was replaced by Nemhard again in the sprint stage of the season. Seeing Nesmith shine in the playoffs now, no one will argue for Mathering, and he is also appearing in transaction rumors more and more frequently.

The reason is that Mathering's technical characteristics are incompatible with the fast offensive system created by Carlisle around Halliburton. In the general direction of the team's requirement for quick reading and quick judgment, Mathering's ball quotient is difficult to match. Its biggest highlight - the ability to hold the ball hard to solve, is far less stable than Sika. Therefore, starting from the bench is the best choice for the team. Interestingly, this season's regular season, Matherin has played highlights in three consecutive games, averaging 24.3 points and 8.7 rebounds, shooting and three-point shooting percentages were 48% and 40% respectively, and led the team to win three consecutive games. Halliburton missed all of these three games (like Kumingga played highlights after Curry was injured this year's playoffs).

Now in the playoffs, Matherin's rotation pick further moved back, and even encountered a DNP in the second half of the Knicks G2. However, what must be praised for the Pony is that he did not discourage it. Instead, in G4's only 12 minutes of playing time, he made 5 of 8 shots and scored 20 points efficiently to help the team win the match point.

Below are some of the exciting scenes of Xiao Ma today, namely the ball-holding attack box, the ball-free air-cut attack box, and the fast-break conversion attack box, all of which have a very visual sense of Xiao Ku.

Of course, some inexplicable passes, dribbles, cover fouls, plus the golden No. 00 jersey, really makes people feel dazed.

and the best shot of today: knocking down Halliburton.

This summer, Kumingga is about to usher in a major career choice, and next summer, Matherin's rookie contract will expire. Perhaps, before next year, changes will occur this summer.