We all know the "mamba spirit", which originally meant a snake in English, which is fast and poisonous. Later, it represented never retreating, never giving up, never escaping, like the "Peter Pan" Kobe Bryant we are most familiar with called "Black Mamba", and later other players have also received the title of Mamba, more like a kind of inheritance.
Like some of the mamba titles that have appeared in recent years, it is more like ridicule, like "Bald Mamba" Caruso, "Standing Mamba" Ryan Anderson, "Laughing Mamba" Corey Brewer, "Mouth Mamba" Andrew Wiggins and so on.
And that year after Kobe Bryant's "Black Mamba", there were also people like "Yellow Mamba" Brandon Roy, "Red Mamba" Matt Bonner, "White Mamba" Scala Bryan, in contrast, the title of "Yellow Mamba" Roy is more loud, and it is also one of them that truly inherits the mamba spirit.
Talking about the soul and leader of the Portland Trail Blazers, young fans may only think of the current star Lillard, in fact, before him, the team's deserved leader was Roy, although his career was so short, jealous of talent, short-lived, regrettable, it seems to be a joke that God made him, and this is the true portrayal of this talented career, although he was never a talented player.
In fact, from the innate conditions, it is doomed that Brandon Roy's basketball career cannot be so long and flat. Meniscal congenital defects, congenital skeletal abnormalities in the left foot, these two birth defects are obviously almost fatal for basketball players who engage in fairly high-intensity sports loads, most people may not be able to choose basketball as their career path, but Roy chose to fight against fate, just because of love.
Despite Roy's constant efforts, his draft report told everything that he was destined not to be the kind of "spring man" and "trapeze artist" who could easily complete a flat-frame dunk, and even his turnback speed was quite mediocre. However, it is such a mediocre player who tells us that the floor stream can also kill the game.
Roy's golfer shined in his senior year, averaging 20.4 points and 4.1 assists per game, leading the team to a 26-7 record, and he officially announced his participation in the NBA Draft that season.
Of course, Roy on the court always gives people a feeling of slow and leisurely, not hurried, not slow, at any time is expressionless, but at the critical moment, his bones are hot and calm has become his must-kill skill, and every key ball is thrown before and after it is very calm, and then a sword seals the throat, this is Roy, a cold-faced killer on the court.
In the first game of the rookie season, Roy scored 20 points, and the rookie season averaged 16.8 points, 4.4 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 1.2 steals per game, and undisputedly won the best rookie of the year, which can be said to be the peak of his debut. In the second season of his career, he was able to lead the Portland Trail Blazers to a wave of 13 consecutive wins with another legendary star of the team, averaging 19.1 points, 4.7 rebounds and 5.8 assists per game, establishing his leadership position on the team and successfully entering the Western Conference All-Star team that year.
And that's not all, the next third season, Roy ushered in the peak season of his career, but also portland before the decadence, transformed into a Western Powerhouse season, this season Roy can average 22.6 points, 4.7 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game, playoff stats rose to 26.7 points and 4.8 rebounds, the team record exceeded 50 wins, but also successfully reached the playoffs. It was also this year that made Portland fans firmly believe that this "floor flow team combat" team would bring them more surprises, and even have the opportunity to impact the Western Conference Finals or even the Finals, and the entire Rose Garden Arena began to be full.
However, fate is so fond of teasing people that in the 2009-2010 season, the Blazers, which have practical players such as Roy, Oden, Aldridge, Batum, Fernandez and Otello, lost to a series of injuries, and after the injuries of Oden, Fernandes and Batum, Roy also suffered a major injury – meniscus tear. After the operation, Roy could have recovered from injuries and waited for the next year to make a comeback, but his desire to survive was too strong, and when the team's playoff life was hanging by a thread and the big score was 1-2 behind, he insisted on returning early with injury and really helped to equalize the big score.
However, the cost of this impulse was devastating, he only played 47 games in the 2010-2011 season, and had to undergo surgery for knee injuries and finally removed the meniscus of both knees. Although Roy later tried to make a comeback and then underwent a seventh knee surgery, he finally confessed his life and his career was fixed for 7 seasons (including missing the entire season in the 2011-2012 season).
Today, "Yellow Mamba" has left our field of vision for almost ten years, but his once wonderful killing shots are still clearly in our minds, the natural leadership temperament, the big heart at key moments, Brandon Roy, the eternal "Yellow Mamba", thank you for our youth!
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