‘This is for my grandmother’: Montrezl Harrell wins NBA Sixth Man of the Year由卡哇伊爱小西瓜 发表在ClipsNation https://bbs.hupu.com/672
Clippers center Montrezl Harrell won the 2019-20 NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award on Friday, receiving 58 of 100 first-place votes and appearing on 97 of 100 ballots. Harrell, 26, edged out Oklahoma City’s Dennis Schröder by 69 points, and his teammate Lou Williams, a three-time Sixth Man of the Year winner, finished a distant third.
Harrell averaged career highs in points (18.6), rebounds (7.1), free-throw percentage (65.8 percent), rebound percentage (13.2 percent) and minutes (27.8) in 63 regular-season games in his fifth NBA season and third with the Clippers. He is the first big man since Lamar Odom (2010-11) to win the award.
Here is a breakdown of the voting.
MONTREZL HARRELL RECEIVED 58 OUT OF 100 FIRST-PLACE VOTES FOR SIXTH MAN OF THE YEAR. HE APPEARED ON 97 OF 100 BALLOTS.
LOU WILLIAMS FINISHED THIRD IN VOTING BEHIND HARRELL AND OKC’S DENNIS SCHRÖDER. PIC.TWITTER.COM/PQ7CJETMKS
— JOVAN BUHA (@JOVANBUHA) SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Doc Rivers and Lou Williams presented Harrell with the award on Friday morning at the team’s film session.
FROM ONE SIXTH MAN TO ANOTHER.@TEAMLOU23 SURPRISES @MONSTATREZZ WITH THE 2019-20 SIXTH MAN OF THE YEAR TROPHY. PIC.TWITTER.COM/WAXEE0FTIE
— LA CLIPPERS (@LACLIPPERS) SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
“I’m just so proud of him as a coach,” Rivers said. “He epitomizes what a Sixth Man of the Year award winner is — and trust me, we’re getting used to them here with Lou Williams and Jamal Crawford in the past. To have Trezz join the group is really amazing. I feel like more than a coach watching Trezz do this. I feel like a proud father.”
Rivers called on Williams to help him with something before going in the back of the room to grab the trophy. Harrell deemed the passing of the torch from Williams as a “special” moment.
“For him to come out and just hand me the trophy, it was special,” Harrell said. “It was a huge surprise. … To see that trophy come out from the back and actually coming towards me, it was a tremendous honor and just a complete, complete tremendous thank you to my teammates, to Doc and Lou, everybody.
“Like I told my teammates in practice, this award is because of them. These guys trusted me to be the player that I am, and they let me be it, no matter through the ups, through the downs. They always have been there and had my back, and you can’t do nothing but cherish things like that.”
MY LIL BIG BRO @MONSTATREZZ HAPPY FOR YOU GANG. KEEP PROVING EVERYBODY WRONG ?????
— PATRICK BEVERLEY (@PATBEV21) SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Harrell missed roughly a month of time in the bubble due to the death of his grandmother late last month. He dedicated the award to the woman that introduced him to the game of basketball.
“This is for my grandmother, who is not here with me today and isn’t going to be able to see this,” he said. “She isn’t going to be able to see me do something that she instilled in me as a young child, a game that she brought to my attention as a young man and I fell in love with and worked my tail off at.”
This season, Harrell was the third-leading scorer for the league’s second-best offense and best bench offense. He surpassed Williams as the Clippers bench’s go-to option and was a crucial piece of the team’s fourth-quarter offense, closing games as the unit’s rim-running menace alongside Kawhi Leonard and Paul George.
Harrell led the Clippers in crunch-time minutes, a reflection of his durability and importance. He earned Rivers’ trust and became the primary option at the five despite not starting. He led the NBA with the most double-doubles off the bench (11), was second in bench scoring average (18.4 points per game) and tied for the most games with 30 or more points off the bench (four).
His growth as a scorer is best exemplified by this metric: Last season, 30.2 percent of his field goals were unassisted; this season, that number jumped to 38.2 percent. It’s a significant leap when factoring in his rise in playing time (an increase of 1.5 minutes per game) and field-goal attempts per game (plus-2.1), and the presence of two high-usage superstars in Leonard and George. He’s no longer reliant on Williams to create offense for him.
The development of his post-up game — with the ability to face up and attack with a variety of floaters, hook shots and scoop shots — made him arguably the game’s best post player at his 6-foot-7 size. Harrell’s minutes, points and rebounds have increased in each of his five seasons. He’s a self-proclaimed gym rat who works on his game each offseason with his trainer, Rico Hines, at UCLA and in pro-am leagues across the country, including Williams’ runs in Atlanta.
Harrell, who is entering unrestricted free agency this offseason, is setting himself up for quite the pay raise (he is making $7 million this season), with the Clippers or another team, even if the salary cap takes a considerable dip with the financial ramifications of the NBA’s loss of revenue in China and the pandemic.
That being said, there was a time when Harrell’s future in the NBA was murky. Upon being traded to the Clippers, as Rivers has admitted before, they weren’t sure if they were initially going to keep Harrell on the roster. The undersized big man didn’t have a clear role or position.
But after watching him scrimmage a few times, the front office and coaching staff realized Harrell was far more skilled than advertised. The Clippers opted to keep Harrell and make him their backup center behind then-Clipper DeAndre Jordan. The decision — and subsequent investment in developing him — has paid off.
Harrell offered a glimpse into a conversation he had with Rivers upon joining the Clippers in the summer of 2017, including the confidence that Rivers instilled in him similar to the way the coach built up Jordan after his up-and-down start to his career.
“Coach (Rivers) has had a tremendous upside to my career,” Harrell said. “From day one, coach told me that this is not one of those things that we kind of just did to package this. ‘No, we want you here. We’ve seen you play. We know the type of intensity and motor that you bring to the game. This isn’t one of those things that you’re going to be coming here and leaving back out. We want you here.’
“To hear the head coach of an organization say you don’t have anything to worry about, you can get comfortable here, and this is a team that wants you, it means a lot. From there it’s been that, and I can’t describe it any other way because Coach gave me my first opportunity with this team. When I got my opportunity, I took it and didn’t look back. That’s all I wanted since I came to this league, was just an opportunity to prove that I could be out there and help my team do anything and everything I could to be in position to win.
“Coach Rivers did that, and I’m extremely, extremely honored to be able to play under him.”
Harrell and Williams are so intertwined at this point. They have combined for the last three Sixth Man of the Year Awards. This season, they became the first duo to each average 17 or more points per game off the bench since the NBA started designating starters in 1970-71 (and they averaged 18-plus, at that).
During his award acceptance interview on TNT’s pregame show, and on a Zoom conference with reporters an hour later, Harrell wore a black T-shirt with a collage of photos of Williams plastered in the middle.
After all of those assists from Williams to Harrell over the years, it was time for Harrell to publicly give one back to his teammate.
“Honestly, I wore this shirt just because there’s a reason and I’m following the other guy who’s won this award three times,” Harrell said. “He’s the ideal person that you could model behind, playing the game and doing it the right way. … He hasn’t complained once. … He realized that this is not a role that he asked to be in. This was a role he was put in. He just said, ‘Why not be the best I can do at it?’ He’s a proven legend.
“Just learning all of that, just being around him and soaking all that knowledge up,” Harrell added, “has been a tremendous honor.”
Clippers center Montrezl Harrell won the 2019-20 NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award on Friday, receiving 58 of 100 first-place votes and appearing on 97 of 100 ballots. Harrell, 26, edged out Oklahoma City’s Dennis Schröder by 69 points, and his teammate Lou Williams, a three-time Sixth Man of the Year winner, finished a distant third.
Harrell averaged career highs in points (18.6), rebounds (7.1), free-throw percentage (65.8 percent), rebound percentage (13.2 percent) and minutes (27.8) in 63 regular-season games in his fifth NBA season and third with the Clippers. He is the first big man since Lamar Odom (2010-11) to win the award.
Here is a breakdown of the voting.
MONTREZL HARRELL RECEIVED 58 OUT OF 100 FIRST-PLACE VOTES FOR SIXTH MAN OF THE YEAR. HE APPEARED ON 97 OF 100 BALLOTS.
LOU WILLIAMS FINISHED THIRD IN VOTING BEHIND HARRELL AND OKC’S DENNIS SCHRÖDER. PIC.TWITTER.COM/PQ7CJETMKS
— JOVAN BUHA (@JOVANBUHA) SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Doc Rivers and Lou Williams presented Harrell with the award on Friday morning at the team’s film session.
FROM ONE SIXTH MAN TO ANOTHER.@TEAMLOU23 SURPRISES @MONSTATREZZ WITH THE 2019-20 SIXTH MAN OF THE YEAR TROPHY. PIC.TWITTER.COM/WAXEE0FTIE
— LA CLIPPERS (@LACLIPPERS) SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
“I’m just so proud of him as a coach,” Rivers said. “He epitomizes what a Sixth Man of the Year award winner is — and trust me, we’re getting used to them here with Lou Williams and Jamal Crawford in the past. To have Trezz join the group is really amazing. I feel like more than a coach watching Trezz do this. I feel like a proud father.”
Rivers called on Williams to help him with something before going in the back of the room to grab the trophy. Harrell deemed the passing of the torch from Williams as a “special” moment.
“For him to come out and just hand me the trophy, it was special,” Harrell said. “It was a huge surprise. … To see that trophy come out from the back and actually coming towards me, it was a tremendous honor and just a complete, complete tremendous thank you to my teammates, to Doc and Lou, everybody.
“Like I told my teammates in practice, this award is because of them. These guys trusted me to be the player that I am, and they let me be it, no matter through the ups, through the downs. They always have been there and had my back, and you can’t do nothing but cherish things like that.”
MY LIL BIG BRO @MONSTATREZZ HAPPY FOR YOU GANG. KEEP PROVING EVERYBODY WRONG ?????
— PATRICK BEVERLEY (@PATBEV21) SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Harrell missed roughly a month of time in the bubble due to the death of his grandmother late last month. He dedicated the award to the woman that introduced him to the game of basketball.
“This is for my grandmother, who is not here with me today and isn’t going to be able to see this,” he said. “She isn’t going to be able to see me do something that she instilled in me as a young child, a game that she brought to my attention as a young man and I fell in love with and worked my tail off at.”
This season, Harrell was the third-leading scorer for the league’s second-best offense and best bench offense. He surpassed Williams as the Clippers bench’s go-to option and was a crucial piece of the team’s fourth-quarter offense, closing games as the unit’s rim-running menace alongside Kawhi Leonard and Paul George.
Harrell led the Clippers in crunch-time minutes, a reflection of his durability and importance. He earned Rivers’ trust and became the primary option at the five despite not starting. He led the NBA with the most double-doubles off the bench (11), was second in bench scoring average (18.4 points per game) and tied for the most games with 30 or more points off the bench (four).
His growth as a scorer is best exemplified by this metric: Last season, 30.2 percent of his field goals were unassisted; this season, that number jumped to 38.2 percent. It’s a significant leap when factoring in his rise in playing time (an increase of 1.5 minutes per game) and field-goal attempts per game (plus-2.1), and the presence of two high-usage superstars in Leonard and George. He’s no longer reliant on Williams to create offense for him.
The development of his post-up game — with the ability to face up and attack with a variety of floaters, hook shots and scoop shots — made him arguably the game’s best post player at his 6-foot-7 size. Harrell’s minutes, points and rebounds have increased in each of his five seasons. He’s a self-proclaimed gym rat who works on his game each offseason with his trainer, Rico Hines, at UCLA and in pro-am leagues across the country, including Williams’ runs in Atlanta.
Harrell, who is entering unrestricted free agency this offseason, is setting himself up for quite the pay raise (he is making $7 million this season), with the Clippers or another team, even if the salary cap takes a considerable dip with the financial ramifications of the NBA’s loss of revenue in China and the pandemic.
That being said, there was a time when Harrell’s future in the NBA was murky. Upon being traded to the Clippers, as Rivers has admitted before, they weren’t sure if they were initially going to keep Harrell on the roster. The undersized big man didn’t have a clear role or position.
But after watching him scrimmage a few times, the front office and coaching staff realized Harrell was far more skilled than advertised. The Clippers opted to keep Harrell and make him their backup center behind then-Clipper DeAndre Jordan. The decision — and subsequent investment in developing him — has paid off.
Harrell offered a glimpse into a conversation he had with Rivers upon joining the Clippers in the summer of 2017, including the confidence that Rivers instilled in him similar to the way the coach built up Jordan after his up-and-down start to his career.
“Coach (Rivers) has had a tremendous upside to my career,” Harrell said. “From day one, coach told me that this is not one of those things that we kind of just did to package this. ‘No, we want you here. We’ve seen you play. We know the type of intensity and motor that you bring to the game. This isn’t one of those things that you’re going to be coming here and leaving back out. We want you here.’
“To hear the head coach of an organization say you don’t have anything to worry about, you can get comfortable here, and this is a team that wants you, it means a lot. From there it’s been that, and I can’t describe it any other way because Coach gave me my first opportunity with this team. When I got my opportunity, I took it and didn’t look back. That’s all I wanted since I came to this league, was just an opportunity to prove that I could be out there and help my team do anything and everything I could to be in position to win.
“Coach Rivers did that, and I’m extremely, extremely honored to be able to play under him.”
Harrell and Williams are so intertwined at this point. They have combined for the last three Sixth Man of the Year Awards. This season, they became the first duo to each average 17 or more points per game off the bench since the NBA started designating starters in 1970-71 (and they averaged 18-plus, at that).
During his award acceptance interview on TNT’s pregame show, and on a Zoom conference with reporters an hour later, Harrell wore a black T-shirt with a collage of photos of Williams plastered in the middle.
After all of those assists from Williams to Harrell over the years, it was time for Harrell to publicly give one back to his teammate.
“Honestly, I wore this shirt just because there’s a reason and I’m following the other guy who’s won this award three times,” Harrell said. “He’s the ideal person that you could model behind, playing the game and doing it the right way. … He hasn’t complained once. … He realized that this is not a role that he asked to be in. This was a role he was put in. He just said, ‘Why not be the best I can do at it?’ He’s a proven legend.
“Just learning all of that, just being around him and soaking all that knowledge up,” Harrell added, “has been a tremendous honor.”
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