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"What? The coach is warming up! Now this sentence has really changed from playing with the terrier to reality.
Beijing time on January 7 news, from the "The Athletic" famous reporter Samas Charania reported that well-informed sources revealed that rocket assistant coach Gerald Green chose to come back and plan to sign an NBA development league.
Rockets reporter Fagan then followed up with reports that Gerald Green may sign with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, a development league team under the Rockets.
The last time I saw Gerald Green was when the Rockets clashed.
In the Rockets' game against the Bucks, rookie Brooks was named consecutively by his opponents in the second quarter, and even shook down by Jordan Walla and shot three points. In the subsequent suspension, Wood directly chose to face Brooks, and the two began to complain to each other about each other's poor defense.
At this moment, Gerald Green, who is already the assistant coach of the team, sits on the sidelines and yells at two people, and then desperately applauds his teammates.
That's what Gerald Green does today, to guide young people to grow up and be the lubricant in the team.
In late October 2021, Green announced his retirement from the NBA, while he announced that he would join the Rockets coaching staff as a player development coach. It is worth mentioning that before retiring, Green participated in the Rockets trial in the offseason last year, but unfortunately did not stay at that time.
Presumably, Gerald Green at that time still wanted to stand on the court and play. Only in the face of the few opportunities left and the assistant coaching position thrown by the Rockets, this time Gerald Green still chose Houston without hesitation.
In fact, Gerald Green's form is actually maintained well today, even if he has not appeared in the NBA since 2019, but last December Gerald Green updated his social media and showed off his own bounce.
The 35-year-old, barefoot, easily completed the folding back buckle at the Rockets home. At that time, some fans joked that "the coach is warming up", but now it has really happened.
In an interview today, Gerald Green said: "Thanks to Patrick and Tillman (rocket boss), without them, this thing would not have happened. I want to thank them for giving me the opportunity to coach and letting me try, and I really love coaching. I never thought I could coach. ”
"Patrick and Stone told me that if I wanted to come back, the coaching position had always been there. I was really lucky that they were all very supportive of my decision. I also learned a lot from Coach Silas because he taught me how to prepare for the game. ”
Although Gerald Green loves coaching, he should love basketball more, so he will announce his return to the game again three months after announcing his retirement.
Throughout his career, Gerald Green played only 115 games for the Rockets, accounting for less than 20% of his career, but he became a beloved Houstonian, and even his jersey was out of stock.
Here is not only Gerald Green's personal charm, but also a two-way rush to the deep affection, which finally makes Gerald Green live up to the name of "Son of Hugh City".
But before talking about the relationship between him and the Rockets, let's talk about another of his familiar nicknames — the Nine-Finger Dunk King.
Gerald Green was born in Houston, but he wasn't a well-behaved kid in the traditional sense, but he was the kind of guy who was strong enough to go deep into the marrow.
At the age of 11, in the 6th grade, he liked to compare the age, and Green, who had excellent physical talent from a young age, would often bounce with his brothers. But after a goal-tapping match, Green lost the ring finger of his right hand after shouting "You can't jump as high as I can."
Green didn't remember why he was wearing his mother's graduation ring, but the ring hung on the nail on the edge of the door and tore off the upper half of his right finger, "At that time, it was still hanging for a second, I couldn't see anything, only white bones." ”
After he was taken to the hospital, the doctor said that the soft tissue of the finger had been completely torn apart and infected, and it was impossible to perform the surgery for the regeneration of the broken finger, so Green's right ring finger was completely removed above the second knuckle.
Since then, he has disliked communication and hated school, and even has some depression and inferiority. It wasn't until high school that his seriously ill grandmother wrote him a letter encouraging him to play basketball that he was able to regain himself.
Fortunately, his strong physical talent allowed him to continue to pursue his basketball career. In the 2005 Draft , Green was selected with the 18th pick in the first round.
It's just the lack of a ring finger, which makes him somewhat regretful, "If I hadn't lost that finger, I would have been able to catch the basketball more comfortably." That way, I've been able to dunk more baskets throughout my career, and I've been able to dunk more beautifully. ”
Many people know Gerald Green, and it should be the 2007 All-Star Contest. In that dunk contest, Gerald Green's dunks were wonderful, whether it was a blowing candle dunk, a blindfold tomahawk dunk in tribute to Dee Brown, and the last rounded "leap table" violent windmill, all of which were stunned.
In the end, he defeated Nate Robinson and Dwight Howard to win a high-gold dunk contest.
At this point, you may already think that he is an extreme buckler. But in fact, shooting is his ability to survive in the NBA.
There was always a report card hanging at the entrance to the Heat's training hall, where three indicators were used to measure the shooting ability of players: "3-minute shooting", "fast five-point shooting" and "100 three-point shooting".
In all three of these events, Green has a remarkable record: he can use 55 seconds to hit 3 goals in 5 points, and hit 89 in 100 three-point shots, both of which are the best for the team; in 3 minutes, his score is 52, the team's second.
Even that season, his consistently criticized defense wasn't that bad, with his opponents shooting just 40.2 percent of the time they faced him.
These things tell you that what the league 3D players Ariza, Danny Green and others can do at that time, Gerald Green has the same opportunity to achieve, but people often don't want to know that much.
That's why this interview: "One of the things I've been overcoming all my career is to let them know I'm more than just a buckler. ”
"Everybody thinks I enjoy dunks and love dunks, but that's not the case. It's just a habit. For me, a dunk is just a dunk, just 2 points. I prefer to shoot 3-pointers than to dunks, and the game will change because of this. ”
Perhaps it was this label that turned Gerald Green's career upside down. Gerald Green, 35, has not only been to eight NBA teams, but has even been in the development league, the CBA, and even the Russian league.
At the moment, he is the "King of Nine-Finger Dunks", but since participating in the Dunk Contest as a Timberwolves player, he has begun to wander endlessly. It wasn't until he signed the Rockets that his nickname became "Son of Hugh."
In fact, Gerald Green came to Houston at the age of 31, and that year he even began to think about whether to retire.
The day after Christmas 2017, the agent called to say the Rockets wanted to sign him, and Green, who heard the news, didn't believe it. At that time, Green's 6-year-old son and mother lived in Boston, and the child had an allergic reaction, "Dude, don't play me, my son is in the hospital, I don't have time to play with you, today is not appropriate." ”
At one point he thought the agent was teasing him until the hang-up phone rang again. After spending the night with his children, Green rushed to the airport with a bag on his back, thinking, "The team I want to go to the most, the Rockets I love the most, they're going to sign me?" ”
In a hurry, he didn't even bring any equipment, and when he arrived at the stadium, his jersey was just ready, and as for the game shoes, they were lent to him by Ariza. But it was such a short ten-day contract that allowed him to start his rocket career that he had in mind.
Gerald Green's style of play is a nerve knife, which is the main reason for his turbulent career. But when he returned to his hometown of Houston, he happened to run into the Rockets that suited him.
When Gerald Green made an unreasonable three-pointer, D'Antoni said: "When you hit iron 100 times, I'll replace you again, so you can shoot 97 more." ”
Before that, he had encountered the roar of the coach and the complaints of his teammates, but here he found his home. As a result, Gerald Green began to optimize his shooting choices, although he could not suppress his desire to shoot, but more of a reasonable shot, and focused defense.
"In order for the team to succeed, whatever role they let me play, I will do it, if the team asks me to send a towel on the field, I will send a towel, no matter how the team can succeed, can let us win the championship, I will do it." This is how he responded to the trust of the coaching staff.
So he will stand up for Paul and Ariza, will devote himself to charity after the Texas disaster, and always put "I am willing to give everything for Houston" on his lips.
One detail: Gerald Green, who scored 21 points in the first round of the playoffs that year, sat next to boss Fertitta and said, "I've been to so many places, to the left, that's wrong, to the right, that's not right either." And here, there's nothing right or wrong. ”
Gerald Green and the Rockets are a kind of two-way rush.
Gerald Green has never signed a long contract with the Rockets, and he has only played 115 games in his Rockets career. But that's what Gerald Green became Houston's most out-of-stock jersey and what people call "The Son of Hughes."
Green's last appearance in the NBA dates back to the 2018-19 season, when Green averaged 20 minutes per game for the Rockets, scoring 9.2 points, 2.5 rebounds and hitting 2.1 three-pointers.
However, the following season Green suffered a leg fracture in preseason, and then the Rockets traded him to the Nuggets in a 4-team deal involving Capela, and green never got a contract from another team after being cut by the Nuggets.
At that time, Gerald Green's contract was not big or long, but it had the right to veto the deal only superstars, which was his glory for a player who was uprooted and displaced.
Harden was the first to call him after learning that Green was going to be traded, and Harden knew what the deal meant for Green, so he communicated with Green and eventually gave him a promise. Because of Harden, Green eventually gave up the veto power of the trade.
Since then he faded out of the league, but not from the Rockets, he always appeared on the Rockets' trial roster, and finally got a job as an assistant coach.
Retiring three months ago, Gerald Green said in an interview: "When the dust settles, I may go to the bathroom and cry. I grew up in Houston, where I ate, slept, and breathed in the city. I belong to Houston with all my heart. ”
"I'm probably the only coach in the whole NBA to have this tattoo." It was a tattoo on Gerald Green's right arm, with the big word "Houston" tattooed on his arm.
Now that we're on the move again, Gerald Green talks about Houston the most, "This is everything, it's my home, I eat and drink in Houston, and I even bleed here." ”
"You know what I mean, if I could change my last name, I'd be houston, and that's how much I love it."
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