The coronavirus has affected the world, and the NBA has suspended games. Some players chose to indulge themselves, causing their size to start collapsing. If the season restarts in June-July, it will be difficult for these players to maintain their form. However, there are also some players who have practiced wildly during the epidemic, and even practiced harder than when there was no epidemic.
He is LeBron James, who still sticks to his 5-day-a-week training plan, one morning and two exercises in the evening.
This is also the reason why James can still maintain his peak state at the age of 35, not only his body, but his physical ability to maintain it. If there is no such self-discipline mentality and high physical maintenance efforts, the average player will have been blessed even if he has a body like James.
And James's peak is very long, and it has continued to peak since entering the league. Like Danny Green said, James hasn't changed much compared to cavaliers 1.0.
James's only change is that he is more mature, and his hairline is getting lower and lower. In addition, James's leadership ability has been improved again compared to when he was a Cavaliers. In the past, we have always said that Irving's ability to lead the team is very poor, but it is not that Irving is incompetent.
But Irving's leadership skills are still poor, and it is difficult to bring the team together. That's why Irving couldn't be the boss at the Celtics and questioned a lot at the Nets.
So how big is the gap between Irving and James when he was young in the Cavaliers? Former Cavaliers player Larry Hughes had a showdown in a recent interview with the media. He told everyone how tough James was at 21. His leadership skills and personal skills are among the best he has ever seen.
Hughes said: "What impressed me most about James was that he was a great listener and he didn't try to interrupt us when we imparted his experience. Always be prepared to listen to the teachings and then incorporate them into the game. He was very talkative, we had a lot of conversations, from late at night or even early in the morning, he told us he wanted to be the best player and worked hard! ”
Hughes spoke of one of the biggest differences between James and Owen, which was that he listened to the teaching and had the courage to communicate. People say James returned to the Cavaliers and robbed Irving of his boss. But we all know that even if James doesn't return to the Cavaliers, Irving's boss is unstable. Because his communication skills are not very good, that's how this season at the Nets, people will think that Dinwiddie seems to feel better than Irving when he is the boss.
In fact, Irving is far from the boss, depending on whether he can be a qualified listener and have a good relationship with his teammates.
At the end Hughes also talks about James' leadership skills, he helps the people around him become better, and makes everyone do their jobs. After the Cavaliers lost James, they actually retained the original team of the Finals, why did the record suddenly bottom in the East?
It's because no player has the leadership ability of James, no player has the ability to be the boss. Of course, James' stats are also gorgeous, james at the age of 21, in the 2005-06 season, averaged 42.5 minutes per game, was able to get 31.4 points, 7 rebounds and 6.6 assists, and led the Cavaliers to 50 wins in the regular season to reach the second round of the playoffs.
At the heart of the Nets now are Durant and Irving. It can be seen now that these two people actually lack communication skills, Durant and Irving are very sensitive, and how 1+1 equals 2 is the problem for the Nets. Maybe after watching Hughes's interview, Irving will wake up like a dream, you can't hope that Durant will show leadership, you need to take it yourself.