Now in the Assistant Coach's Bench of the Denver Nuggets, there is a figure that is very familiar to the old Rockets fans, he laughs and smiles, but under the gentle appearance is a tough heart, he is Ryan Bowen, because the San Antonio Spurs have a black player who has been selected for the best defensive team for many years, Bruce Bowen, in order to distinguish the two, Rockets fans affectionately call him White Bowen.
We look at this player's NBA career from The Perspective of God, 2 meters 06 tall, average physical fitness, average athleticism, as a forward player can not shoot, no three points, average defensive ability, no ability to protect rebounds, but even so, stunned in the NBA for 10 seasons, in the Nuggets also became the captain, in the Rockets once became a starter, what did he rely on?
There's a maxim on his social media: "Effort always triumphs over genius, unless genius becomes diligent." "He is based in the NBA is the whole field of physical strength to stare at the defense, desperately around the front defense, cowhide candy like close to the defense, never slacken spirit and every ball must fight for the attitude, in the Rockets of that year, we often see the opposing star players by Bowen chased the full field of galloping, but is not able to catch the ball, can be laborious to receive the ball, Bowen immediately pasted on the stalking, an offensive player often has to spend a lot of effort to complete an attack, no two rounds, Bowen and the opposing player are tired half cat waist breath breath, under his close defense, the shooting rate of the opposing player will be greatly reduced, and he is naturally restrained by the players who score the ball, because the players have spent a lot of physical strength in order to shake off his defense, after receiving the ball, because of physical strength, heart rate, rhythm and other reasons, the shooting action is easy to deform, and he will tirelessly interfere with all the offense, although the movement speed is average, but the enthusiasm and alertness of the defense greatly make up for the physical drawbacks, The main point is that unlike the Spurs' Black Bowen's dirty defense that uses all kinds of small moves, his defensive moves are very clean, which is his selling point, he has no talent, he relies on a tireless fighting spirit.
Ryan Bowen was born on November 20, 1975 in Fort Madison, Iowa, USA, from childhood interests and hobbies, especially like sports, tennis, baseball, basketball are playing a similar, after going to college he began to play basketball, from the student period he is the coach's favorite player, on the court conscientious, try their best, strict training off the court, meticulous, can be called a player model, trapped by the congenital physical conditions of white players, he has found his own positioning since college, Contributing to the defensive end, his full-time defense has never been the kind of random collision with enthusiasm and no brains, but playing with his brain, there will be different defensive strategies for different types of players, and now he ranks first in the history of The University of Aihua, fourth in the block list, eighth in the rebounding list, and he is on the list of all the data of the side reaction defensive ability.
In 1998 to participate in the draft, the third to last place in the draft was selected by the Denver Nuggets, after the selection of the Nuggets did not sign him, he went to the Turkish League to work hard for a year, the 99-00 season Nuggets recruited him to the team, this stay is 5 seasons, in the Nuggets he began to show his signature characteristics to the whole league: there is a super high concentration on the court, every ball must compete for the floor ball professional, at all costs of physical strength to run all over the field, card position, top man, blocking and dismantling these dirty work are all seriously completed, serious training off the field, The first to the training ground, the last to go, impeccable professionalism, the Nuggets appointed him as the captain of the team, let's not talk about the skill, on this role model for the team is worth a basic salary, he became the favorite player of Denver fans, of course, he can play a role on the defensive end, belongs to the team's 10th rotation, the team will send him up at a specific time to defend the opposing arrow figure.
After the Nuggets contract ended, Ryan Bowen was abandoned because of a single function, but his style of play was appreciated by the then Houston Rockets coach Van Gundy, Van Gundy was a recognized defensive expert in the whole league, Bowen's defensive style coincided with the coaching philosophy of head coach Van Gundy, his offense was completely equal to 0, except for the basket leak and the empty space under the basket, there was no means of scoring, which greatly affected his playing time, Van Gundy's strategy for him was to let him fight for a few minutes in the first quarter. Then the next look at the situation, when it is necessary to strengthen the defense, he is sent to the court, and this use strategy is somewhat similar to the CBA Beijing team's use of Qiu Tian.
Bowen's most impressive work for Rockets fans was the defense of Nowitzki in the first round of the 2004-05 playoffs, when the Mavericks were in the ascendant, and the Rockets side suffered a heart attack because the only big forward, Juwan Howard, suffered a heart attack, so Van Gundy took Bowen to the start, and used him to entangle Nowitzki to get a miracle effect, Bowen relied on the front defense of Nowitzki, chasing Nowitzki in each game to prevent him from receiving the ball, Nowitzki's first game two-pointers 5 of 19, Three-pointers 2 shots 0, the second game of the whole game 21 shots 8, the Rockets won two consecutive away games, I remember when CCTV host Yang Yi explained the second game after the excitement said a statistic, NBA playoff history home 0-2 behind the team few can turn over, after the second game the reporter specially interviewed Nowitzki, asked him what he thinks of this Bowen, Nowitzki angrily said: "He is like a fly constantly flying around me." ”
The sweet-tasting Rockets continued to use this strategy, but the Mavericks' head coach, Little General Everly Johnson, was not dry, he arranged more blocking cover for Bowen's defensive characteristics, and Nowitzki also began to use the ball to break through the offense, although Nowitzki's shooting rate was still low, but he continued to score free throws by the inside, which made Bowen's defensive effect discounted, and there was also the most important point, at that time, a referee in the law enforcement game gambled with himself. Deliberately biased in favor of the Mavericks, and the Rockets themselves have no other offensive firepower except Yao Mai, although the Mavericks are affected by Nowitzki, there are Starkhouse, Terry, Josh Howard, Finley and other stars in turn, and finally the Mavericks turned over, the seventh Mavericks stared at Maddy to win the Rockets by a big score, Maddy tearfully spilled the field, and all rocket fans were heartbroken.
Bowen averaged 18 minutes per game in that series, averaging 2.6 points per game, his role on the court can not be measured by data alone, there is a technical statistic, in the rocket and Mavericks seven games, Nowitzki shot a total of 128 times, only hit 45 goals, shooting only 35.1%, and the previous regular season Nowitzki's shooting rate reached 45.9%, so that his big loss and Bowen's defensive limitations have a lot to do with it.
At the end of the 2005–06 season, Bowen underwent hip surgery, missed training camp due to injury, and then left the Rockets, and in the 2006–07 season he played for two teams, including Luis Scola's parent team, Tay Seramica, and Israel's Enoni Naharia. Averaged 4.6 points and 3.2 rebounds per game, the 2007s showed nissuda Timberwolves playing in the Summer League, averaging 5.8 points and 3.6 rebounds per game, and in the 07-08 season he made 53 appearances (including four starts) with an average of 12.5 minutes of playing time, contributing 2.2 points and 1.9 rebounds in an average of 12.5 minutes, which was the peak of the Bee King Chris Paul, Tyson Chandler, David West, Bowen also made 9 appearances in the playoffs, 2009-10, Bowen played one game for the Thunder, which was also the farewell battle of his NBA career, and on November 22, 2009, he played eight minutes against the Lakers, scored 4 points, 2 rebounds and 1 steal, and was then cut by the Thunder.
Bowen played a total of 507 games throughout his NBA career, averaging 12.8 minutes per game and contributing 2.6 points and 2.1 rebounds.
After retiring in 2010, Bowen still did not leave basketball, he first returned to his alma mater the University of Iowa as a video analyst and administrative assistant, joined the Denver Nuggets coaching staff in 2011 as An assistant to George Carr, became the assistant coach and player development department manager of the Kings in 2013, and Became a partner with Michael Malone, in 2015 Michael Malone joined the Nuggets from the Kings, he strongly invited Bowen to join his coaching team, and the two have established a tacit cooperation relationship since then. Bowen is in charge of the training of the inside players in the team, and it is under his guidance that Jokic has gradually become an All-Star MVP player, and I think he will definitely share a lot of the experience he has had with Yao Ming when training with Jokic.
This kind of ordinary player has left his name in the NBA through hard work, and his professional attitude and spirit are worth learning from the players of our country, because ordinary, so extraordinary.