When it comes to rubbing heat, it must be Skip Bayless, which is famous for black LeBlanc James. He can always find a wonderful angle.
This is not true. On October 25, Beijing time, after the grizzly 134-124 beat the basketable nets World War I, Skip updated Twitter to tie the Lakers. He Praised Durant and Owen, who each scored 37 points, then he praised Morant who got 38 points, and then the point came: “However, Desmond Bain scored 38 points and scored 8 points! Lakers country, sad?”
Why did Skip take Bain to heart the Lakers? Because of the 2020 draft convention, Bain was the 30th show, while the Lakers had the 28th sign at that time, but Danny Green packed the 28th sign to replace Schroder before the Lakers draft convention.
It is meaningless to push the result backwards, because two years ago, few people believed that Bain would achieve such a result today. An arm shows extremely short body talent is plain, and the older rookie who has been playing in college for four years is not valued. But now, Bain has the reputation of “meat warehouse” and “short version Thomson”, and he has become the top scorer in the league.
Bain had a rough childhood. He moved with his mother three times when he was still faltering before he was two years old. He didn’t settle down until he moved to his parents’ home great-grandfather. But stability also meant the arrival of separation. His mother left him soon, because she was very hard to support herself, not to mention bringing a child.
Bain got in touch with basketball very late, and he attended the little-known Sidon Catholic high school. In Bain’s own words, in high school, he was the highest player in every game and could easily attack rim. He played a dominant role in the local area, but because of the low quality of the game and insufficient exposure, there was no strong NCAA team paying attention to him at all. Finally, Purdue University sent an invitation to Bain for trial training. Bain also pushed it on the grounds of “going to Florida with the team”. The opportunity was so wasted.
Bain thought he could only commit himself to the NCAA secondary league. Fortunately, gold is gold after all, and there will always be a day when it is discovered. Ryan Miller, assistant professor of Texas Christian University (former NBA marksman Mike Miller’s brother), found this piece of gold. He watched the video of Bain repeatedly. He noticed Bain’s underestimated athletic ability, shooting ability and basketball IQ.
Most of the time, the height of the starting point and the size of the platform cannot determine a person’s fate. Bain is a typical example. His starting point is very low, and his platform is very small, but this becomes his advantage instead. In the imperceptible corner, Bain silently polished the technology. Although Texas Christian University is a small school, it is good to have a small school. They can devote more resources to core players.
Bain was already an excellent fixed-point pitcher when he joined Texas Christian University, but Miller didn’t think Bain’s upper limit was just a fixed-point pitcher. He made a development plan for Bain. First of all, Miller took Bain to study the shooting video of the God shooter Danny Green and learned how to find a vacant shot in the conversion attack, how to use fake action to point the defender and then take a step.
After that, Miller took Bain to study Clay Thompson, looking for the secret of Thompson becoming one of the most efficient shooters in the league. When Thompson had no secrets in Miller’s and Bain’s eyes, they studied Devon Booker together.
“As Bain continues to upgrade, the level of players we let him imitate in training is also improving,” Miller said. “after he mastered fixed-point shooting, we started to let him switch the offensive three points in the high-speed Middle shot, then the fengshui ball three points, then the horizontal withdrawal shot after a fake action, and all kinds of running with cover receive the ball three points, we just keep adding new weapons to him.”
Miller didn’t simply define his role as “shooter” while taking Bain’s all-round promotion projection. In the fourth season of Bain in 2019-20, he began to develop his organizational ability to prepare for entering NBA in the future. That season, Bain sent 3.9 assists per game, and at the same time, he shot 92 three-point goals with a three-point hit rate of 44.2 percent, with an average of 2.9 in the game.
Bain waited anxiously for his name to be read at the 2020 draft conference. Originally, he thought that the piston with the 7th sign and the sun with the 10th sign would consider choosing him, but he was disappointed. When the 18th rank was the turn of the Lone Ranger to choose, Bain prayed in his heart that he could be chosen because Dallas was very close to Texas Christian University. But Bain was disappointed again. The Lone Ranger chose Josh Green, who was close to him in style but had better talent for younger sports.
Finally, Bain fell to the 30th place. He was selected by the Celtics. Then the grizzly bear got Bain in the three-party deal, because in their eyes, Bain was the elite shooter they wanted.
“The reason why I came to the 30th place is that they think I am old and short-arm, and my performance in college may not be transformed into NBA,” Bain explained.
It is no wonder that NBA talent shows pay more attention to potential and talent than combat capability. Bain was 22 years old when he was selected, and his potential is obviously not as good as those young people who just turned 18 and 19. Bain’s height is 1 m 96, which is not bad as combo guard, but his arm show is only 1 m 93, which is a rare player whose arm show data is not as good as the height data, there are only 10 such players in the league.
But just like jokki and donchic, who were criticized as “slow” in the draft, Bain, who was criticized as “short” and “old”, also gained a firm foothold in NBA with excellent technology, the solid accumulation he made step by step during his four years in college helped him finally win the second place in the first place of the grizzly bear.
The accumulation of the past is the prelude to success. In the 2021-22 season, Bain became the top scorer in the second season of his career.
In the regular season, Bain hit 43.6% third in the league, second only to the Clippers striker Kennard. In history, 156 players have shot more than 500 times in three points in a single season. Bain’s hit rate ranks 10th. Curry and Thompson took 6 seats in the top 9. A total of 210 players have shot at least three points in the first two seasons of their career, and Bain’s hit rate ranks fifth. In contrast, Thompson also shot 794 times and three points in the first two years of his career, which was the same as Bain, but his hit rate of 40.6 percent was lower than that of Bain’s 43.5 percent.
In various data lists about the three-pointer, Bain’s name is associated with Thompson and Curry. Some people call Bain “short version Thomson”, some people also called him “in the meat warehouse”, and both titles were reasonable. Because Thompson is good at three points without goals, and Bain hit 44% in the fixed three points last season. The fourth place in the league is comparable to Thompson in the peak period. He also has a large number of opponents receive the ball to cooperate with the team’s insiders. At the same time, Bain is also good at doing three points. Last season, he hit 43.1 percent in the league. In the grizzly bear’s tactical system, Bain held more and more balls to break down. He was not a simple fixed-point pitcher like Duncan Robinson and Joe Harris, he can attack with the ball and also create opportunities for his teammates.
Today, in the first world war with basketable nets, Bain’s characteristics of taking the ball and no ball were fully demonstrated. The first three games of the season were not in good condition, but he completely regained his confidence in the first world war with basketable nets, there are not only three points for holding the ball, but also three points after receiving the pass. The 8 three points and 38 points are their career records, and the 7 assists level the individual single record.
Sports Illustrated once asked Bain. In his opinion, several players in the league were three points stronger than him. All he could think of was Curry and Thompson.
Bain can’t be the Curry of the grizzly bear, but it seems good to be Thompson around Morant. After all, it is impossible for everyone to be the leading role in a historical play. It is also a success to leave his own unique story as a supporting role.