Chapter 482 07 The lives of the three heroes are different
The matter of the All-Star voting has been arguing in the press and forums, Chamberlain doesn't care, anyway, there are more people in the league who have opinions about him, and the old Nelson advised him: "Geniuses always have to suffer from jealousy, and MJ was the same back then, when he played the All-Star for the first time, didn't Magic Johnson and the smiling assassin Thomas join forces to not pass the ball to him?" But when you're a few times more capable than anyone else, they won't be jealous of you, but will only admire you and praise you, just like what happened to MJ. ”
Chamberlain sneered: "BOSS, you underestimate me, do I care what these people think?" Do you know what my life credo is? Go your own way and let others have no way out! ”
But not everything Chamberlain can endure, the head coach of the Timberwolves, former green shirt giant McHale, told reporters: "The reason why Chamberlain can get so many votes is not that his ability has absolutely overwhelmed other stars in the league, at least Dwight and LeBron are better than him, he is just lucky, he is Chinese, and we all know that there are very many Chinese, just like ...... Uh, as much, all in all, I don't think Chamberlain lives up to his name. ”
McHale is narrow-minded, the reason why he said this is to take revenge, in December, the Timberwolves and the Warriors played once, that time the Warriors slaughtered them with a score of 109-72, McHale was questioned, he has been holding his breath to settle accounts with Chamberlain, and now he has finally waited for the opportunity, can he not start?
Chamberlain's response to this seems to be light and not saying much, but the Warriors know that the next time they meet the Timberwolves, Chamberlain will definitely show the power of the league's No. 1 center.
Indeed, Chamberlain has always played center but was placed in the position of power forward to compete with Nowitzki, Duncan, Gasol, and Xiaosi for the All-Star starting position, which is really unkind in the eyes of these people.
There are too many top forwards in the West, Duncan, Smalls, Nowitzki, Gasol, West, Boozer, Anthony, Odom, fortunately, Brand, O'Neal Jr., Webb, Martin are injured and old, otherwise how can they compete? The competition for this position was cruel, but Chamberlain squeezed in again, but he was definitely the one who could be the starter, so how did the others live?
The 2009 NBA All-Star Game will be held on February 15 at 19:30 West Coast Time at the Phoenix Suns' home stadium, and Phoenix will be the third time it has hosted the NBA All-Star Weekend, joining the 2009 hosts of Toronto, New York, Oakland and Milwaukee.
The Warriors were breezy and uneventful in January, and after the loss to the Mavericks, the Warriors did relax a lot, the pressure on the winning streak quickly faded, and the players once again set their sights on the Finals.
This month, the Warriors have a total of 16 games, they have a 13-3 record, and the overall record since the beginning of the season is 41 games, 32 wins and 9 losses, ranking behind the Lakers, the Lakers' record is still extremely good, they are 34-7, as of the end of January, the head coach of the All-Star Game has been released, anyway, the head coach of the team with the best record in the East and West is the head coach of the East and West All-Stars, the Lakers' Zen master Phil Jackson and the Cavaliers coach Mike Brown will lead the team.
Throughout January, Chamberlain averaged 31 per game. 8 points, 17. 4 rebounds, 4. 6 caps and 2. Eight assists, but he didn't win the Western Conference Monthly award and failed to win the honor three times in a row, which the league awarded to an average of 32 per game. 4 points, 5. 8 rebounds, 3. 8 assists, 1. Another outstanding rookie with 7 steals, Kevin Durant.
Durant is on fire this month, and his scoring ability has terrified other teams in the league, and the Warriors have only lost three games in January, including one loss to the Thunder, and Durant seemed to go crazy in that game, under the rotation defense of Jackson, Barnes, Billups and others, he hit 17 of 31 shots, cut down 51 points, and 12 rebounds!
Judging from the numbers, Durant still can't beat Chamberlain, except for the score is less than one point higher, and the other aspects seem to be far behind. But the league has to pay attention to balance, and it can't give Chamberlain the best of the month, right? What else are the others playing, go home and play with your daughter-in-law.
However, Durant's growth still surprised everyone, TNT celebrity Barkley sighed: "We saw last season that Durant's achievements in the future will definitely not be low, he will become a great scorer, but no one expected that he would grow so fast, and now he is the kind of super scoring machine that can be comparable to KB and AI!" Who would have predicted that? I gotta say, the Portland Trail Blazers missed out on a guy with a lot of potential. ”
The Portland Trail Blazers are really in pain right now, because their chosen champion, the long-awaited Auden the Great, is injured again and is out of action for a full year last season! Even if Oden returns this year, it will be a stop-and-go, and in December, when the Warriors and Trail Blazers played, everyone expected Oden to show his heroic appearance against Chamberlain, who was in the limelight in the league, even if he sniped him, but Oden was injured and out of action at that time.
This time, Oden has a fractured patella in his left knee, and Trail Blazers fans are full of grief after the diagnosis, because Oden needs to rest for at least two months before he can return. It's going to be April in two months, and the playoffs are about to start at that time, not to mention whether Oden can stay competitive without playing for two months, just say that without Oden relying on Aldridge and Roy, can the Trail Blazers make the playoffs?
If Oden stays healthy, if he can play to the level he did in college - he doesn't need to improve much after entering the NBA, as long as he maintains the ability of college, then the class of 2007 can proudly say that they are also a golden generation, even if only three people who can make a difference, Chamberlain, Oden and Durant, but the three of them are destined to go down in history.
But the reality is that the Trail Blazers lost the bet again, they wasted the No. 1 pick, missed Chamberlain, missed Durant, and drafted a new glass man, Oden. If the Trail Blazers missed Chamberlain, it is understandable that this guy did not participate in the draft pick at all, but their miss on Durant made fans a little unbearable.
Many people have now compared the Trail Blazers' missed out on Durant's selection of Oden to Jordan's selection of Bowe in 1984.
1984 was a rare year for the draft, and the Trail Blazers, who had the top picks, were looking forward to a new savior. In fact, the draft spot for that rookie was fixed from the start, Olajuwon was the undisputed prospect, and Barkley was already arguing with the 76ers over contract amounts and overweight issues before the draft began.
For the Trail Blazers, in the unlikely event of getting Olajuwon, their first choice is Sam Bowie, a star center from the University of Kentucky, a super-basketball powerhouse. In recent years, there has been an argument that the Trail Blazers chose Bowway over Jordan because there was already a potential guard on the team at the time, Drexler, but this argument somewhat underestimated Bowway.
Nowadays, when Bowie is mentioned, the world will immediately think of the word "parallel import". But at the time, choosing Bowe and ignoring Jordan was a decision that didn't require much hesitation, as did choosing Oden over Durant in 2007. At that time, Bowe's prestige in the NCAA was not inferior to Jordan, with a height of 2. At 16 meters, Bowe is not only extremely agile, but also delicate, and is known as the Jabbar of Kentucky.
Compared with a late-bloomer like Jordan, Bowway has been a nationwide talent since he was a child. When Jordan was still struggling for a starting spot on a high school varsity team, Bowe was already recognized as the No. 1 high school student in the United States, and in 1980, just after graduating from high school, Bowe was selected for the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team, which is a super high courtesy that neither Magic nor Bird enjoyed.
After four years of training in Kentucky, a famous basketball school, Bao Wei is well-known in the United States for his super high basketball IQ, broad overall view, delicate basketball skills, and unpredictable high-level strategy skills. When he entered the draft in 1984, the scouting report said that his best template was Abdul-Jabbar, and at worst he would be the next Ralph Sampson, you must know that Sampson is not an unknown junior, he is the top pick of the Rockets in 1983, and he can average 20+10 per game in his rookie season, if it is not ruined by injury, the twin towers formed by him and Olajuwon will definitely make Jordan the Great ******** in the eighties and nineties.
Of course, Powe is by no means perfect, and his biggest flaw is his height 2. At 16 meters, he was a little underweight and a little lacking in confrontation, and he missed many games due to a leg injury in the final stage of his senior year. However, the Trail Blazers repeatedly asked the team doctor to conduct a physical examination of Bao Wei before the draft, but they all came to the conclusion that the leg injury had already healed, so the Trail Blazers were relieved to finalize Bao Wei, but in the end it was still difficult to escape the tragedy
Looking at the tragedy of the Trail Blazers' high-ranking rookies over the years, the Trail Blazers' poor medical care and limited level will certainly be to blame, but the Trail Blazers' top management blindly focuses on the player's skills and ignores his injury history. After all, former Bill Wharton, Sam Bowway, and now Oden all had a history of serious injuries during their time in the NCAA, but those risks weren't taken seriously enough in the draft.
In fact, when it comes to the value judgment of the Trail Blazers' top management when it comes to selecting rookies, they are already very unique. In the NBA's trend of promoting flashy offense for many years, and with peers paying more attention to player potential and physical qualities than experience and skill, it is really rare for the Trail Blazers' top management to still believe in those older rookies with solid fundamentals every time they select rookies.
In recent years, the best example of the trailblazers' thinking was their selection of Roy in 2006. 2006 was a small year for the draft, and in the eyes of the Trail Blazers, it was too similar to the 1978 draft. Bird, who came from elementary school in 1978, ended up with the sixth pick because he insisted on finishing his senior year, and Roy, a senior player from elementary school in 2006, also fell to the sixth pick.
The Trail Blazers have always regretted that they lacked the guts to bet on Bird in 1978, so when they saw Roy fall to the sixth pick and was drafted by the Timberwolves in 2006, they immediately decided to trade with the Timberwolves, and they got their wish, at least so far, they have won the bet, Roy may not be able to reach Bird's heights, but he has only been in the league for three seasons, and he has become a good leader and a tough scoring machine.
The draft itself was a gamble, but unfortunately, the Trail Blazers lost the 2007 gamble. If there are no injuries, the Trail Blazers will definitely save a group of young and old stars with a simple style of play over the years, and even have the opportunity to become another Celtics in the NBA who plays the world with a solid style of play, but there has never been an ifs in this world, and a loss is a loss.
After looking back at the tragic history of the Trail Blazers, if anyone really needs to step up and be responsible, the team doctor is by no means the only sinner. Yes, they failed to accurately verify the injury potential of their players at the time of the draft, let alone bounce back when their stars were injured, but who would dare to hold the Trail Blazers brass accountable why they chose stars with a history of serious injuries every time?
In 1984, the Trail Blazers chose Bowie and missed Jordan because of it, and now people say it's because the Trail Blazers already had gliders, ignoring Bowway's bravery back then. In 2007, the Trail Blazers missed Durant because they chose Oden, do people in the future say that Oden was born a parallel commodity and missed Durant all because the Trail Blazers already had Roy?
Back in the 2007 draft, when two teams from the Northwest Division held the No. 1 and Pick picks, Portland selected star center Greg Oden from Ohio State University that night, and the SuperSonics (now the Thunder) of the University of Texas selected Kevin Durant in the same division. In fact, there is no doubt about this choice, Auden swept the United States in college and was known as a combination of Abdul-Jabbar, Malone, Olajuwon, and Ewing, while Durant was questioned because of his thin body.
At that time, it was natural for the Trail Blazers to choose Oden, and if they didn't get the top pick, but the other 29 teams got the top pick, they would have chosen Oden as the top pick.
But two years later, Durant is moving towards superstar status at supersonic speed, and the 21-year-old is expected to challenge for the first scoring title of his career this season. And another city is still immersed in the thought that "he will be fine". The top two in the 2007 draft are stretching towards two different trajectories, one rushing to greatness and the other rapidly sinking into mediocrity.
Oklahoma City can now forget about the Hornets, the city's first NBA team, and now that the Hornets are gone, the Thunder are coming, and Durant is leading his youth team to become the city's icon, and fans will be able to witness the team's first playoff trip at Ford Center after the season.
I have to say that the Thunder team is really perfect, first of all, their core players are young players, and their prospects are among the best in the entire NBA league. Including Durant, Russell Westbrook, Jeff Green, DeAndre Jordan, Saab Sefrosa. The Thunder have made everyone's eyes shine this season, and they are currently ranked 8th in the West, and if they work hard after the All-Star, they may be able to make the playoffs.
Especially now that Chamberlain dominates the restricted area and Durant is invincible on the outside, the comparison between the two people, Oden's downfall is even more obvious.
There are a lot of Indians living in Portland, and these fans claim that this qiē is because someone changed his life against the sky, Chamberlain should not appear in the NBA at all, he didn't have that ability, and of course he didn't have that fate, but there was a mysterious Chinese feng shui master who forcibly changed his life and blessed him with the luck that belonged to Oden.
Chamberlain really agreed with this statement, he remembered the mysterious, self-proclaimed alien guy, the man who disappeared into the ice and snow world of Alaska, if it weren't for him, he would have been a fat and incompetent big man.
Sometimes Chamberlain really wonders, even though the alien said that he had reshaped him according to Wilt-Chamberlain's standards, was that really the case? Could it be Oden?
There is no answer to this qiē doubt, reality is reality, and history is like that.