He played and exuded a kind of demonic atmosphere. Exudes a kind of wildness. He was fast, his steps were sharp, his pace was great, and his layup moves were so exaggerated that they could almost cause the defender's waist and legs to be strained. He is the spirit snake -—— from Argentina, Manu Ginobili!
In 2002, he was 25 years old, a year that was both fortunate and unfortunate for Ginobili. This year, he won the Italian league championship and the MVP of the tournament, thus landing in the NBA for the first time after being selected by the Spurs in 1999; this year, he led argentina to defeat the Dream Five team at the World Championships, which was the first defeat of the Dream Team in an official match; this year, he led argentina to the final of the World Championships, but due to an ankle injury in the semifinals, he unfortunately lost to the former Sehei in the final. Since Yao Ming joined the NBA in 2002, the sports channels of the Central Five and various satellite televisions attach importance to the broadcast of NBA games, so that the attention of the Chinese people to the MLB basketball has been greatly improved. I started watching Ginobili play in the 2003 Finals, when the two teams in the Finals were the New Jersey Nets and the San Antonio Spurs, and many people criticized that series, feeling that the two teams fought hard to defend in order to compete for the championship, making the game unusually ugly, with many mistakes, low scores, fierce physical confrontation, playing positions, slow offensive and defensive transitions, and the referee's whistle from time to time. But Ginobili has become the scenery of this series, although it is a rookie, although the average shooting opportunity and scoring are not high, but from time to time like a snake-like breakthrough, ghostly passes, lightning steals, for him to gain a lot of fans. Under the strict management of the army, he is one of the few highlights.
After the Finals, a Spanish newspaper made such an analogy: the NBA Finals are a cake, and Ginobili is a cherry on it. In 2004, due to Fisher's magical 0.4 seconds, the Spurs hated the West Zone semifinals, and many people did not realize that it was Ginobili who was defending the old fish at that time. It was also at the Athens Olympics that year that Manu led the Argentine team to the top. In the first game of the group stage, Manu broke through and killed the Serbian men's basketball team and successfully avenged the 2002 men's basketball world championship. In the semi-finals, he led Argentina to once again defeat the Dream Six team with a luxurious lineup of Iverson, Duncan, James, Wade, Anthony and others to advance to the final. In the final, the Argentine team did not solve the Italian team without bloodshed and stood on the highest podium. And on the podium next to the championship podium stood Manu Spurs teammate Duncan.
In 2005, after two years of adaptation and exploration, Ginobili began to enter the peak of his career, and many people began to know Ginobili at this time. In the playoffs, the Spurs eliminated the Denver Nuggets, Seattle Supersonics and Phoenix Suns, and met the defending champion Detroit Pistons in the Finals, which is a contest between the former champion and the defending champion, which is a match between two defensive teams and a game between two famous coaches. Who can win the O'Brien Cup? Before the start of the final, many experts believed that if the Spurs wanted to win, they must find a way to break the Pistons' iron-blooded defense, compared to the Spurs' overall rotation defense, the Pistons' individual defensive ability is more powerful! In the finals of the previous year, they won 4-1 against the Lakers with the four kings by virtue of this, and only lost one game with Kobe's magical shot! So who is going to break this iron-blooded defensive lineup? The answer is Manu, even if he is defended by Prince, the "little prince" who defended Kobe Bryant last year. He made prince and pistons' brass-walled defense look less solid with his incredible breakthroughs, and the Spurs finally broke it after seven bitter battles
With the shackles of double Wallace, Manu's change of direction to break through the dunk makes double Wallace the background. The face of the astonishing hong is like the flow of water.
Unconsciously Ginobili has been retired for many years, greatness comes from the ordinary, with Manu to prefer the Spurs, even if you can never get the Finals MVP, even if you can not enter the Nasmith Hall of Fame, but in my heart will always remember the Argentine demon knife that never rusts!