Does Jordan Poole have a chance to prove himself from Curry s successor to the bad artifact?

According to US reports, the New Orleans Pelicans have reached a deal with the Washington Wizards. The Pelicans exchanged CJ McCollum, Olynick and a second-choice draft pick from the Washington Wizards for Jordan Poole, Sadiq Bay and the No. 40th draft pick this year. Among them, Jordan Poole is a player that is very concerned by Chinese fans. So what level is he now? Today's Star Test will bring you Poole's data analysis.

Poole is very funny in Chinese fans. He is the upper limit of Jaylen Green who is ridiculed by fans. He looks like a bald strongman because his Chinese translation is known as "Tea Jordan". In the past two years, he has become a magic weapon for the team to compete for the lottery show. However, in 2022, he had the reputation of Curry's successor and the cornerstone of the Warriors' future. In the end, Draymond Green's heavy punch disappeared. This time he joined the New Orleans Pelicans, he had the opportunity to re-establish his reputation in a new environment.

Photo: Among the top 100 NBA 2024-25 stars selected by the ringer website on June 4, Poole ranked 99th and is also the only star on the list of the Washington Wizards. The website evaluation is as follows:

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Everyone was surprised. Poole is in a “wild” state for most of his time as a Wizards player (even for most of his career) – indulging in every desire of his own, following his instincts, and indifference to anything other than himself in life. However, when you watch Poole’s game now, you can see that he is leaning slightly towards a healthier balance. Fundamentally, he is still Jordan Poole and he still makes incredible decisions in almost every game - shooting choices, game moves or other aspects. But his change is that the number of mistakes is decreasing, and the balance is formed with the contribution of the game.

Poole has always been full of energy, and the biggest variable in his performance (the reason why he has reduced from a championship contributor to a "walking emoticon") is how to use this vitality. Recently, Poole's offense has been getting faster and faster, which gives him enough room to free offensive ball rights as long as he doesn't fall into an overly complicated routine. As a scorer, he is best suited to play under a fixed tactical framework. With the Washington Wizards, this is a little difficult to achieve, but Poole has begun to respect some new veteran teammates and even leave room for young players to expand their game style. His style of play is not suitable for everyone, and every "Shardshooter" is like this - they all have their own quirks, and Poole has fewer quirks than they used to be. The

Comprehensive website evaluation means that Poole made some changes and became a little more team-oriented, which brought very good results. His data reached career highs. Although these data were played by a bad team with no record pressure, it still improved compared to last year's unreliable reputation.

Last season, Poole averaged 15.2 shots and scored 17.4 points per game, of which 52% of the inside scores and 48% of the outside scores. The score ratio of the inside and outside scores is close to 1-to-1 is a very typical projection scorer. He scored 50% of the ball and scored assists by 50%. At first, he had unlimited fire rights in the Wizards, but because of his low efficiency, he was later confiscated by new coach Brian Key, and then the ratio of independent scores and assisted scores gradually balanced to 1-1.

Pole averaged 15.5 shots per game this season, including 41% of the inside scores, 58% of the outside scores, 54% of the scores of the original ball, and 46% of the assisted scores.

From the comparison of data in the two seasons, it can be seen that Poole's average score has increased a lot with almost no increase in the number of shots per game, which shows that his scoring efficiency has increased, and the increase in the scoring ratio of the outside line shows that his outside line hit rate is good, so let's look at the efficiency in depth. As a projection scorer, the projection efficiency is the most critical factor affecting his reputation.

The shooting performance in the 2023-24 season was:

3-pointers took the ball and made 270 three-pointers and made 82 goals and hit a shooting percentage of 30.4% was a very poor level.

3-pointers received and made 286 three-pointers and hit 100 goals, with a 35% shooting percentage.

227 shots in the middle distance, 90 shots, and 39.6% of the shooting percentage is the average level.

219 free throws made 192 goals and hit 88% of the shooting percentage.

Pole's shooting performance was not qualified in other aspects, except for his good free throws. Giving him the offensive ball with such a blacksmith performance basically means giving him a direct defeat. Of course, it cannot be said that this is completely useless. The title of "a bad artifact" came from this season.

The shooting performance in the 2024-25 season was:

three-pointers took the ball and made 340 shots and 133 shots and hit a 39% shooting percentage.

3-pointers received and made 279 three-pointers, 102 shots, and hit a 36.6% shooting percentage is the qualified level.

110 shots in the middle distance and hit 34 goals, 31% of the shooting percentage is the frame pulling level.

274 free throws and 242 shots, shooting percentage of 88% is an excellent level.

From the comparison, we can see that Poole reduced his mid-range shooting this season, but fortunately, he directly took the ball and threw three-pointers from the outside. What is surprising is that his three-pointer efficiency is very good. Judging from his shooting performance this season, it is really a bit like Curry's successor.

Let's look at the second scoring skill - Breakthrough aspect.

In the 2023-24 season, Poole broke through 745 times with the ball, ranking 37th in the league, of which 368 breakthroughs in the box were ranked 33rd in the league, with a 169 shots shooting percentage of 46%. This shooting percentage ranks eighth from the bottom among the top 50 stars in the league that season, only higher than Scott Henderson's 41.2%, VanVleet's 41.2%, Grant's 43.3%, Bancello's 43.7%, LeVerre's 44.1%, Butler's 44.4%, Trae Young's 45.7%. He has been blocked in total 75 times and ranked 20th in the league. It can be said that Poole is also very inefficient in breakthroughs and cannot afford the reputation of a star at all.

The total number of ball-breaking 551 times in the 2024-25 season was down to 64th in the league. Among them, they broke through the box and ranked 61st in the league with 253 breakthroughs, with 119 shots and 47% shooting percentage, and a total of 68 blocks were blocked, ranking 18th in the league.

It can be seen that Poole has reduced the number of breakthroughs this season, and reducing and increasing efficiency is the most ideal state, but unfortunately, his breakthrough efficiency has almost no improvement compared to last season, which shows that his breakthrough skill ceiling may be at this level.

Also, as the website comments say, one of the main problems that caused Poole to change from a championship-level member to a funny emoticon package is the problem of mistakes. He is often on the list for all kinds of incredible and bizarre mistakes. He ranked 21st in the league in the 2023-24 season with a total of 188 turnovers in the 2023-24 season, with an average of 3.1 turnovers per game, an average of 4.5 assists and a ratio of 1.45 assists. This is the level of a double-edged sword, killing one thousand enemies and losing 800 for himself.

Then look at this season, the total number of mistakes was 204 in the league, ranking 13th in the league, and it still averaged 3 turnovers and 4.5 assists per game. The assist-and-turnover ratio has almost not changed. The faster growth is that his ball-holding breakthrough mistakes increased from 4.5% last season to 9%. It can be said that the number of mistakes in the ball-holding breakthrough has increased by half, which shows that his breakthrough ability is really not good.

Finally, let's talk about defense. The team is definitely not defensive. The Washington Wizards' defensive efficiency this season is 119.1 (lossed points per 100 rounds) ranked fourth from the bottom in the league, so Poole's defensive data will be dragged down, and with his current mentality, he will never bother to defend.

Last season, the opponent averaged 9.3 shots in front of Poole, ranking 7th among the Wizards. It can be seen that his defensive task is very low. The opponent hit 4.8 goals under his defense, with a shooting percentage of 52.2%. The opponent's average shooting percentage increases by 6.8 percentage points under his defense, which is the worst defense efficiency of the Wizards. It can be seen that he just has no defense.

Let's compare his defensive data in the 21-22 Warriors' championship season. This season, the opponent averaged 8.7 shots in front of Poole and made 4.1 goals and hit a shooting percentage of 46.7%. The opponent's shooting percentage increased by 1.6 percentage points under his defense. Although he is not a defensive player, at least it is not a big colander.

Finally, based on Poole's data performance this season, he has some improvements and highlights in projection, but he is still extremely poor in breakthroughs, control mistakes, and defense. With this performance, it can only be a bad tool level. But Poole is an enterprising and competitive player. He was also a man walking with a "dagger". The word "disobedience" was written on his face. However, later, the edges and corners were gradually smoothed by reality, a warning from being reduced from the main force to a substitute, and accusation from fans and the media. Poole finally became numb. He no longer insisted on changing the shape of the world, but planted moss in the folds, making each smoothed trace a groove that accommodates the story.

But I still hope that Poole can regain reputation. After all, true maturity is not about losing edges, but about letting the sharp edge understand that in the fireworks of the world, it ends silently but also resoundingly.