To win the championship not only requires strength, but also a little luck and environment, basketball is a team sport, it is impossible to rely on their own efforts to succeed, so there will be many players with strong personal ability but no championship in the history of the NBA, maddy is one of the representatives of these players. Recently, however, Maddy has made a surprising remark, talking about not winning the championship during a podcast on Draymond Green. Maddie said: "I can go to any country in the world and I am recognized, respected, very respected. But I would say that winning the championship requires a lot of operation, my style of play, my performance, do you think if I am the right teammate I can't win the championship? I'm one of the top players in the league and I just don't have good teammates. ”
Maddie also cited his friend Kobe Bryant as an example, Maddy said: "What happened after O'Neill left? Bryant also struggled for 2 years, people forget. You need teammates to win the championship. If I could partner O'Neal, I could also win a triple crown. As soon as this statement came out, it was hotly discussed by fans, partly because of Maddy's own strength, and part of the reason was Dayao, the reason why Chinese fans like Maddy so much is definitely because of the Yao-Mai combination, people all hope that Dayao can achieve higher achievements in the NBA. Maddy's own strength naturally does not need to be questioned, 7 All-Stars, 2 scoring kings, 2 best players, and Maddy has also been inducted into the Hall of Fame, not to mention maddy's honors are not enough to enter the Hall of Fame, that is, 7 All-Stars, which also shows Maddy's popularity that year, and few players can be selected for 7 All-Stars.
Maddy is of course the most well-known is his ability to probe the bag like a score, which is also Maddy's biggest selling point, 2 scoring kings are enough to show how terrible Maddy is at the peak of the existence, even Kobe Bryant personally admitted that Maddy is the most difficult to defend the player he encountered, his speed, height and arm length will become a weapon to crush the defender, in addition, maddy's defensive ability at the peak is also not weak, look at the Magic, Raptors period Maddy contributed data, basically maintained at the average of 1 steal + 1 block per game, So just look at Maddy's peak he definitely belongs to the league's first-tier stars, and his ability is beyond doubt. The question to ask Maddy is his glass attributes, he hasn't been full attendance all season in his entire career, injuries are one of the challenges of Maddy's career, and after the age of 29, Maddy has had a hard time getting back to peak form because of a back injury.
As for Maddy's teammates are too bad, this is also the truth, of course, Maddy is not accusing Yao Ming of being too bad, at that time, the Rockets lineup can only take the hand of Maddy and Yao Ming, the whole team does not have a third scoring point, once one of Yao Mai falls, then the other will naturally be taken care of by the other side. Think about who the Rockets were except Yao Mai back then? Hayes is a player who can only grab rebounds and has zero offensive ability, only 7.9 points and 8.1 rebounds at the peak; Battier is also a player with excellent defense but average scoring ability; Artest may be the third slightly higher-level star besides Yao Mai, his abilities are quite average, but Artest's shooting is also unstable; Scola entered the league too late, if he can enter the league earlier, I believe he will definitely be the most reliable helper around Yao Mai; the rest is Alstom, Players like Blooms and Mutombo.
It can be seen that the Rockets' weak points were in the point guard and the big forward, Alstom did not play a famous role in the NBA, his street ball set was not visible in the NBA, and his shooting was unstable; and Aaron Blooms, although scoring is a strong point, his defense is too poor. When Scola came to the Rockets, it was already Yao Ming and Maddy's peak tail, the two core players could not play a better performance, how could Scola lead the team to a breakthrough? Another important reason is that Yao Ming and Maddy have not played many games together like the Nets Big Three, and the two have alternate injury suspensions, which is also a big reason for the Rockets to stagnate.
On the other hand, Kobe Bryant's luck is much better than Maddy's, Kobe Bryant's rookie performance in the league is not good, O'Neal was the main contributor to the Lakers' triple crown, almost few people in the league at that time could resist O'Neal, when O'Neal was a player who could contribute 30+10 per game in the playoffs, we have to admit that Kobe Did Mix a championship when the OK combination triple championship. Look at the comparison of Kobe Bryant and Maddy's playoff data at that time, you will know that in fact, the ability of the two people is not much different, 1999-2002 three seasons of playoff Maddy can get 30+ per game twice, Kobe's data compared to Maddy is indeed inferior, if it was Maddy and O'Neal at the time, at least can get a championship.
Unfortunately, history has no if, can only say that Maddy's own luck is not good enough, Yao Ming is not a superstar like Duncan, O'Neal, but with Yao Ming's strength that year, he is also the top three center of the league, facing Howard, Stucky meier, Big Gasol is not inferior, even in the face of the end of the O'Neill can also be a draw, in that era without the big three, Maddy has a helper like Yao is also a luxury. It's just that the Rockets boss was too stingy and only thought about how to avoid taxes, resulting in the Rockets role players are indeed not high, otherwise Yao Mai and Yao Mai would both become the most successful duo in NBA history.