One, 35 seconds and 13 minutes, eight successful Maddy
Maddie, December 9, 2004, 35.13 minutes.
Years from now, one might forget that year's overall champion was the Detroit Pistons and MVP was Kevin Garnett.
But few people will forget the magical Maddy of that year, unless there is a more outrageous performance than that.
But it was too difficult, and his performance that day would probably be the most unsurpassed performance in NBA history, just like the Big Dipper's 1961-62 season average of 48.5 minutes per game, Bill Russell's eleven rings and the eight consecutive championships, A.C. Green's record of 1192 consecutive games.
Let's review the magical 35 seconds:
With 38 seconds left in the game, the Rockets trailed the Spurs 68-76.
Maddy dribbled through halfway and borrowed Paddett's cover to swap Spurs' short center Malik Rose in front of him, the iconic dry pull.
Facing Maddy, who is taller than himself, Rose, the original coolie center around Duncan, is out of reach.
The second ball, bruce Bowen, the NBA's most shady and efficient outside defense expert at the time, clung to him. Even if Yao Ming came over to cover and did not block him clean, Maddy's swift pace still found a glimmer of space.
Tim Duncan, one of the greatest defenders in NBA history, is still just a small step.
But Maddy's center of gravity was retracted and then put down, and he swung a shot and rubbed the body of the stone Buddha into "3+1".
Can you figure out who Duncan's defensive path has been in his two decades of career?
On the third goal, the Rockets barely sent out of bounds. Maddy used his height advantage to grab the ball above Parker's head, dissolving the double bag.
Bowen did not lose his position the whole time, locking Maddy with a tight and precise pace.
But when Maddy once again threw a hollow three-pointer with a twist and float, Bowen was also confused.
Not even stepping on the feet didn't work out.
The fourth goal, the Rockets steal at the back, Maddy picked up the ball and swept the clouds. The first white dunk king, Brent Barry, scored the deadly three-pointer in front of him, leaving only the spurs and Popovich with a confused face.
On such a night, everyone knew that he would shoot the last ball like this, and even everyone knew that he would throw it, because the night was destined to belong to him.
In the 1986 playoffs, Jordan scored a record single-game 63 points in front of the Green Army, which made Bird sigh that "Tonight God is playing in the number 23".
So who is wearing the Rockets' No. 1 jersey on such a night?
The Spurs were the league's defensive number one that year, averaging just 88.4 points per game, and half a year later they would beat the Detroit Pistons in a "defensive battle" to win the championship. But in that game, they were stabbed by Maddy for 13 points in half a minute.
Duncan was the greatest number four, and the greatest defender in history, and calm and never made mistakes was his label, but at that moment, he couldn't do anything about it.
Bruce Bowen, the best defensive expert in the NBA at the beginning of this century, defended Bryant in the playoffs and killed James in the Finals, but in Maddy's moments, he was also invisible.
In fact, at that time, Maddy only had seven successful powers at his peak.
Before the game was 35.13 seconds, he shot 8-of-25 and 1-of-12 from three-point range.
The victory of that game was more of a surprise in the clouds, a surprise under chance.
Throughout the 2004-05 season, he had 25.7 points, 6.2 rebounds and 5.7 assists, and remained a league third-team and All-Star.
But that's already the best performance of his five-year Rockets career.
What was Maddie like at his peak?
01-02 season, 25.6 points, 7.9 rebounds and 5.3 assists, league first,
02-03 season, 32.1 points, 6.5 rebounds and 5.5 assists, league first team + scoring champion,
In the 03-04 season, even if the back injury has found him, he still has 28.0 points, 6.0 rebounds and 5.5 assists, the second scoring champion.
The fastest first step in the league at the time was no less than Iverson's speed + 2m 04 figure.
The ultimate bounce and stretch shots make up the still classic dry-pull shots.
With sharp passes, a smart running position, 4.4 career appearances and 6.5 assists at his peak, few people realize that he is probably the league's best organizational striker before LeBron appeared.
As well as the all-Star board "self-help dunk", the gorgeous footsteps of single-handedly shaking Kobe Bryant.
Constitutes the strongest front guard swing man of the early 2000s.
His pinnacle is in magic, not in rockets.
The vast majority of fans have gone all the way to Maddy because of Yao Ming, and they have fallen in love with basketball because of Maddy.
But the freehand genius who wore a red and white Rockets jersey and could still block Bradley and lead the Rockets to 22 consecutive wins.
It's just a T-MAC walking downhill.
Second, Garnett, the Predator King and the cornerstone of the Green Army, are actually two different things
The same thing happened to Garnett.
Now we talk about the most about his big three with Pierce and Ray Allen in 2007, his feud with the Lakers and Kobe Bryant in 2008-10, and then he played with the Heat's LeBron for many years. In those years, the defensive system centered on him was a nightmare for all opponents in the league.
In the 2007-08 season, they defended the league first in the regular season, and faced the Cavaliers' LeBron in the playoffs, limiting it to an average of 26.7 points per game from 48.4 percent in the regular season to 35.5 percent.
Remember that LeBron averaged 30.0 points, 7.9 rebounds and 7.2 assists per game in the regular season.
In the Finals, when he met Bryant Bryant of the season, Black Mamba averaged 25.7 points per game and shot 40.5 percent from the field, while in the previous Western Conference Finals, Kobe Bryant faced another great interior Duncan-led Spurs, and scored 29.2 points and 53.3 percent from six games.
Neither of the league's top attackers in the 21st century won the bargain with the Green Army and Garnett that year.
Throughout the 2007-08 season, KG averaged 18.8 points, 9.2 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 1.4 blocks and 1.4 steals per game, the league's first team + best defensive player.
This is also his best performance in the Green Army in four years.
But is this the case with Pinnacle KG?
You should know that the year before joining, he still averaged 22.4 points, 12.8 rebounds and 5.7 assists per game of "20+10+5" full performance.
In fact, from 1999 to 2005, he averaged "20 points+ 10 rebounds + 5 assists" for six consecutive seasons, the only one in history.
At his peak, Wolf King was the NBA's premier all-round monster.
He has the height of a center, but he has the mature skills of a defender, and the soft mid-range shooting feel of a forward. At the same time, he is not afraid to use his lean body to rush rebounds and make up for blocks in the penalty area.
He couldn't have done any better scoring, rebounding, defending, interior work, and even made occasional cameo appearances as point guards. Before Jokic, he was probably the most accomplished in tandem with high-level organizations.
Chris Webber, the most respected big forward in the passing organization of his contemporaries, averaged 4.2 career assists per game, peaking 5.5.
Garnett averaged 4.3 appearances per game for the Timberwolves, peaking at 5.7.
And he has 5,445 career assists, still the number one in the history of a big forward position.
The perfect combination of height and agility allows him to differentiate himself from the traditional interior line, covering the entire half with the influence of the defensive end.
It was just that the Timberwolves' strength at that time was not worthy of his performance, KG steadily contributed a comprehensive 20+10+5 stats, and the team scored about 50 regular season games in the Wild West every year, and then was eliminated in the first round when facing more aggressive opponents in the playoffs, until the 03-04 season.
That year, the Timberwolves recruited "crazy forward" Spneyville, "alien" guard Sam Cassel, who was selected for the league, and Garnett, who joined with strong reinforcements, also played the top performance of his career, averaging 24.2 points, 13.9 rebounds, 5 assists, 2.2 blocks and 1.5 steals per game.
The Timberwolves also overpowered the defending champion Spurs and the Lakers, who gathered together with 58 wins and 24 losses in the regular season, and the Lakers, who gathered together, ranked first in the West, and the Wolf King won the only regular season MVP of his career that year, and went all the way to the Western Conference Finals.
In the first decade of the new century, the league played a forward position, Duncan 6 times, LeBron 4 times, followed by KG and Dirk 4 times, the rest was divided by Maddy, Durant, Webb, and his nine defensive ones in ten years.
Only he can sit on an equal footing with The Stone Buddha Duncan. If you want to know how strong Duncan was at that time, you will understand how strong KG was at that time.
Dwayne Wade, the strongest Flash, when exactly
Although he belongs to the same golden generation, Wade actually made a name for himself in the league earlier than James.
In his rookie season, LeBron took the best rookie, but missed the playoffs. Wade, on the other hand, has already beaten the Hornets in the first round of the playoffs.
LeBron made his first playoff in the 2005-06 season, but Wade had already beaten the Dallas Mavericks in the Finals to win his first championship + fmvp.
He averaged 34.7 points, 7.8 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 2.7 steals per game, and averaged 33.8 in the Finals (the first in history).
It was one of the grandest individual heroic performances of the Finals.
But it wasn't until 2010 that they met in Miami with James and Bosh that Wade quickly left center stage in the middle of the four years.
From 2007 to 2010, the NBA's spotlight was on James, who was super strong year after year and failed to impact the championship, the Green Army where the big three gathered, and the revitalized Kobe Bryant and the Lakers, even the newly rising "Warcraft" Howard was more dazzling than Wade and the Heat.
Because of that Heat in 2006, it was Pat Riley's "old team" who gambled on the championship after stealing the shark. In their core lineup, Sharks, Walker, Payton, and White Chocolate are actually veterans who have entered the end of their careers and fought for the championship, and when they won the championship in 2006, the fire in their hearts was quickly extinguished.
In the first round of the 2007 playoffs, they were eliminated 4-0 by the Bulls, becoming the first defending champion in history to be swept out of the first round.
It then quickly tore down the rebuild, leaving only Wade and later the "team totem" Haslem.
So Marion, who has passed the peak, O'Neal Jr. comes, and Beasley comes, but Riley, who has seen the big storm, knows that they are not the puzzles needed to win the championship.
He was waiting for the summer of 2010, for the biggest fish in the free market, LeBron James, but people didn't know how ambitious he was.
As for the middle years, it was carried by Wade.
So in the 2008-09 season, we met the "Flash" who was undistracted and fully output.
He's not a rookie anymore, and the Heat are certainly at the heart of the matter.
There is no such legend as a shark around him that makes him have some scruples, and there is no later LeBron and Bosh to take care of emotions, and he has almost unlimited right to fire.
He also has no teammates to trust, Marion, O'Neal Jr. are old, and Beasley can't help himself from the beauty of miami's beach.
So, boom.
30.2 points, 5.0 rebounds and 7.5 assists, the league's top scorer. Averaging 22.0 shots per game was the only season of his career with 20+ shots, plus the league's highest average of 7.8 free throws per game.
As well as the previous year, he was also the team scorer of the "Dream Eight Team" at the Beijing Olympic Games.
On March 10, 2009, he played two overtime games with his hometown team, the Chicago Bulls.
At the end of regular time, he scored a three-pointer to tie the score to 104 and enter overtime.
In the first extra hour, his first two free throws helped the team to 117 draws.
In the final 2.7 seconds of overtime, he broke Salmons, held the ball to the opposing half, and killed his opponent outside the three-point line when the clock was about to return to zero, 130-127.
This game Wade 48 points, 6 boards and 12 assists, full of firepower.
The classic slogan "This My House" was born.
Just like most people remember Kobe Bryant's playoff double kills against the Sun and the regular season double kills against the Blazers, but ignore Wade's quasi-three kills,
Many people forget that that year was actually the best years of "The Flash".
His knees can also support his up-and-down rotation, lightning-like acceleration,
He really carries the team on his shoulders without thinking about the feelings of others.
He doesn't have the pressure of a champion and just wants to be the best version of himself.
That was the closest he came to the regular season MVP, but only in third place. Because of the encounter with Kobe Bryant, who led the team back to the championship, 26.8 points, 5.2 rebounds and 4.9 assists, the Lakers won 65 and lost 17 losses to the second place in the league and the first place in the West.
And LeBron, who carried the team to the league number one (66 wins and 16 losses), that year he had 28.6 points, 7.6 rebounds and 7.2 assists, and won his first MVP of his career.
That year, the Heat only won 43 and lost 29, fifth in the East.
Then it was the three-star reunion we know, four years and two crowns, Wade's humility and thoughtfulness made him hand over the scepter to LeBron, willing to be a deputy attacker.
The knee injury also makes people less and less likely to see this "michael Jordan who is five centimeters shorter" (Riley).
Just as he poured champagne on his knees after winning the championship in 2013, thanking the old guy for not pulling across at a critical moment.
Throughout his sixteen-year career, Wade sacrificed too much.
He entered the league with a half-knee meniscus and got out early, but there was always a stronger presence above his head.
He won only three championships for the Heat, but never made a top salary in Miami in 15 seasons.
He was originally one of the most powerful individuals in the league, and now people remember him more than ever as he and LeBron's piano.
He sacrificed so much for the Heat, so much that people forgot how strong he was.