Chapter 163: Maddie's Career Review (Don't Subscribe)
In the '997 draft, Maddy was selected by the Toronto Raptors with the 9th pick. Pen & Fun& Pavilion www.biquge.info but Maddie doesn't feel hesitant in a foreign land, and at least has his cousin Carter as his companion in Toronto. And on October 31, '97, Maddie's NBA debut was played in Miami, but in just 6 minutes of playing time, Maddy only picked up a defensive rebound. Maddy didn't get much of a chance to play throughout his rookie season, playing in 64 games, starting 17 times, averaging seven points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game this season. But in the away game against the Nets, he played 37 minutes and scored 22 points, 8 rebounds and 2 blocks, which became the brightest moment of his debut season.
But I have to admit that in the Raptors, the core is still Carter, in the 98-99 shrinking season, Maddy only missed one game, but only got two starts. While Carter quickly became the Raptors' big leader with his earth-shattering dunks, Maddy focused his efforts on defense. Maddy, who is becoming more and more well-rounded, averaged 9.3 points, 5.7 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.06 steals per game and dished out 1.35 blocks during the year.
In the final year of his rookie contract, Maddy began to be valued by the Raptors, but for Maddy, the team also preferred to position him as "Carter's next to the deputy." The pair of cousins exemplified what it means to be "brothers of the same heart, and their profits are golden" in the regular season, and the 99-00 season was the first time that the Raptors had a win rate of more than 50% since the team was founded in 1996, and entered the playoffs for the first time with a 45-37 regular season record. This year, Maddy averaged 31.5 minutes per game and averaged 15.4 points per game, second only to his cousin Carter. What's more worth mentioning is that Maddy contributed a total of 151 blocks to the team throughout the year, ranking 12th on the league's blocks list, and is the outside player with the most blocks. On April 23, 2000, the Raptors entered the playoffs for the first time in history, and met the New York Knicks in the first round, but Maddie, who was on the playoff stage for the first time, scored 25 points and 10 rebounds.
Throughout the first three years of her rookie season, Maddy has been improving and showing the potential to become an All-Star. But the 2000 All-Star Game slam dunk contest became the epitome of Maddie's Raptors career, in the preliminaries, Maddy scored 50 points with a turn and two hands, and the total score of 99 points in the preliminaries entered the finals, and the finals played an abnormal performance of only 77 points, finishing third behind Carter and Francis. In the three years of the Raptors, Maddy did the same, starting to take off, but for Maddie, the space under Carter's wings seemed a little narrower.
Magic period: Blue Devils No. 1 forged countless classics, two-time scoring champions, but was sad in the first round
For the Orlando Magic, they welcomed the best combination after O'Neal + Hardaway in the summer of 00-01, Maddie + Hill, how could you have thought that these two have become famous glass men in the NBA. That year, Hill played only four games before falling on the injury bench, but Maddie was named an All-Star for the first time in her career that year, and proved her growth in Orlando with a trophy of "Most Improved Player" and an award in the Second Team of the Year.
Battered by the flames of war, Maddie took over the Orlando Magic and broke new ground on the Florida coast. Maddy is averaging 26.8 points per game this season, an improvement of 11.2 points from last season. In four playoff games, Maddy averaged 33.8 points, 6.5 rebounds, 8.3 assists, 1.8 steals and 1.2 blocks per game. At this time, people asked with interest: how much potential does this young man who has just stepped out of the shadow of his cousin Carter have?
In the '01-02 season, Maddie truly showed that she has what it takes to stand at the top of the league. Jordan was raved by Maddy's self-service dunk at the 2002 All-Star Game, and his performance this season has been praised by everyone — on February 23, 2002, Maddy scored his first career triple-double with 22 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists against the 76ers at home. And that year, Maddie was named to the league's All-NBA team for the first time, finishing fourth in the annual MVP election, scoring 20+ points in as many as 60 games and reaching 40+ in 22 games; He, along with Kobe Bryant and Iverson, became the most feared scoring weapon of our era. And "who is the most terrible scoring weapon among the three" has become a big question mark in this period.
The next two seasons are probably the most talked about past for Maddy and his fans, and it is also the only period in Maddy's career that can be compared to Kobe. In the '02-03 season, Maddy didn't stop killing all season, with outside 3-pointers, inside dunks, ecstasy pull-up jumpers, and blocks and steals on the defensive end, all of which will forever linger in the minds of Magic and Maddy fans. This season, Maddy won the 2002-03 scoring title with 14 consecutive 30+ games and 45 consecutive 20+ games, beating Kobe Bryant's 30 points per game with 32 points per game. Maddy was not yet 24 years old at the time, and he became the youngest leading scorer to score more than 32 points since McAdoo in 1976.
The 2003 playoffs were the closest Maddy came to breaking through the first round of the playoffs, scoring 43, 46, 29 and 27 points in the first four games against the Detroit Pistons, and led the team to a 3-1 lead over the Pistons. But helplessly, the Pistons fought against the odds in that situation, winning three cities in a row, and simply blocked Maddie and the Black Eight Miracle from the first round.
And the frustration of the playoffs turned into a frenzy during the regular season, and the 03-04 season also remembered Maddie's most classics. On January 26, 04, the Magic visited the Cavaliers, from 5:38 in the first quarter to 3:19 in the second quarter, Maddy magically shot eight three-pointers in a row, and the scoring champion taught the "little emperor a lesson"; On March 10, 04, Maddy scored a career-high 62 points on 20-of-37 shooting and 17-of-26 free throws......
On March 24, 2004, the Magic played at home against the Heat, and it was Maddie's last game for the Magic. Maddy had just 18 points and four assists, the fifth of an eight-game losing streak at the end of the season. Maddy and the Magic, who had already confirmed that they would miss the playoffs at the time, were not too disappointed in this game, because early that season, Maddy and the Magic had already endured a painful 19-game losing streak, although Maddy eventually won the scoring title, and the poor record of the season (21-61) also laid the groundwork for Maddy's departure in the summer.
Rocket period: It is especially difficult for the MM combination to make the rocket rise into the air for 35 seconds and 13 minutes into the classic swan song
On June 29, 2004, Maddy said goodbye to the four-year solitary years in Orlando and came to the next bright stop of his life - the Houston Rockets, in the first season of the Rockets, the powerful combination of Maddy and Yao Ming played a dream record, under their leadership, the Rockets scored 51-31, ranked 5th in the West, and successfully entered the playoffs. In the season when he first joined the Rockets, Maddy staged a shocking reversal, on December 9, 2004, he scored 13 points in the last 35 seconds of the game against the Spurs, and made 3 consecutive 3-pointers in the final moment, including a successful four-point play, and a steal at a critical moment. With 1.7 seconds left in the game, Maddy hit a final three-pointer to help the team complete a comeback, and finally narrowly defeated the championship contender Spurs 81-80, this night, Maddy made all Chinese fans and Houston fans remember the new Rockets signing Tracy McGrady, who instantly became the savior of the city.
Maddy led the team to the playoffs in the first season of joining the Rockets, and in the 04-05 playoffs, he averaged 30.7 points, 6.7 assists and 7.4 rebounds per game, but unfortunately the Rockets were difficult to defeat after 7 fierce battles with the Mavericks, and in the playoffs this season, Maddy led the team to a 2-0 lead over the Mavericks in the first round, but the Rockets were slaughtered by the Cowboys in Game 7.
The 06 All-Star was held in Houston, the home of the Rockets, and Maddy also became the brightest star of the night, under his own home court, Maddy scored a game-high 36 points, which feasted the eyes of all home fans, proving that he is the greatest star of the city, but in the end, the West lost 120-122 to the East, and finally the All-Star MVP could only be handed over to James, the highest scorer in the East.
But the '05-06 season was a chaotic one, with Maddie's back injury leaving him with just 47 appearances. Maddie's position in the team has also quietly changed, and he has ceded the men's number one position to Yao Ming, and the overall scoring position to Yao Ming. But on the efficiency list, Maddy still averaged 24.4 points per game to suppress Yao Ming's 22. In such a situation, the Rockets drove high and went low, and finally achieved the 12th place in the West. At this time, Maddy, who is suffering from injuries, has strong support from Alstom, Luther Hyde, Swift, Hayes and others, but the Rockets' results have made people know what it is like to be desperate.
Both the Rockets and Maddy were determined to make a comeback in the 06-07 season, but a back injury once again blocked Maddy's way forward, and soon after the start of the season, Maddy missed 7 games, fortunately, Yao Ming ushered in an explosive year, and became the number one core of the Rockets during Maddy's injury, but then Yao Ming unfortunately fell due to a foot injury, and at this time Maddy stepped up to lead the team to the fifth place in the league. This season, Maddy has scored 30+ in 23 consecutive games, including 40+ in three games, while the Rockets have a 19-4 record during that period. On December 9, 2006, he became the third youngest player in NBA history to score 14,000 points and 4,000 rebounds, but the team lost 4-3 to the Jazz in the playoffs, which was the sixth time in Maddie's career that he missed the second round of the playoffs.
In the 07-08 season, the Rockets played an incredible 22-game winning streak, although Yao Ming missed as many as 16 games in these 22 games, but in the end, the brave Rockets broke into the playoffs again, and this time the opponent was still the old rival Jazz, in the absence of Yao Ming, Maddy led the team to fight alone, although in the sixth game Maddy scored a game-high 40 points and had 10 rebounds, but in the end still lost to the Jazz again 91-113, and the Rockets lost 2-4 in the series.
In the 08-09 season, the knee injury could not even make Maddie last for half a season, and on February 18, 09, Maddie announced that he had undergone minimally invasive knee surgery. His stats stuck at 15.6 points, 4.4 rebounds and 5.0 assists, since 35 games this season, Maddy has never put on the Rockets jersey to fight for the Rockets, the tenacious Rockets finally broke through the first round this season, but this honor does not belong to Maddy, he is still at the door of the first round of fate, and Maddy, who has not crossed the injury threshold, cannot overcome the pain caused by the knee injury after all.
Despite summer surgery and a break at the beginning of the season, Maddy didn't get the burst she'd expected this season, 7:44, 7:35, 7:23, 7:43, 7:50, 7:30. After his comeback, Maddy played less than 8 minutes in 6 consecutive games, and after these 6 games, the conflict between Maddy and the Rockets broke out again. The Rockets' desire to trade Maddy has been thoroughly revealed, and Maddy has been suspended indefinitely pending a trade.
On the day of the 2010 trade deadline, Morey's phone rang non-stop, and eventually, the Rockets, Kings and Knicks reached a three-way deal, Maddy joined the Knicks, and the Rockets got Kevin Martin, Jordan Hill, Jarred Jeffries, Kings center Hilton Armstrong and 2012 draft picks (top five protected), in addition, the Rockets and Knicks exchanged 2011 draft picks (Knicks 2011 draft pick pick pick is protected). The Kings get Karl Landry, Larry Hughes and Joey Dorsey. The Knicks also got the Kings of Rodriguez. So, Maddie's years in the Rockets teaming up with Yao Ming came to an abrupt end.
New York: The Balloon Star Returns to an 80% Win Rate
On February 19, 2010, Maddy was sent to the Knicks in a three-way trade. In this regard, Maddie himself patted her chest and promised: "I will definitely be able to return as a king." It's a pity that New York fans, who were full of joy and thought that they had come to the savior, were quickly poured a basin of cold water on their heads, and it was true that Maddie was a superstar, but unfortunately it was already outdated. Played a total of 24 games with New York, and the Knicks won a measly six games in total.
At the same time, Maddie's performance is indeed unusual, and the average of 9.4 points per game is difficult to link with the word superstar in any case. However, the Knicks had a brilliant record when Maddy was off, and New York won four of the five games he missed since joining the Knicks.
Maddy, who later became a free agent, signed a veteran contract with the Pistons, officially bidding farewell to his status as an All-Star. After that, Maddy chose the Hawks, but unfortunately in the playoffs against the Celtics, he fell on the threshold of the first round of the playoffs again. Joining the Spurs this year, Maddy finally broke through the first-round curse, but unfortunately the god of fate still did not favor T-MAC enough, and the Spurs lost 3-4 to the Heat, which also made Maddy lose the last chance to wear a championship ring.
After that, I chose to retire! (To be continued.) )