LeBron James, 37, scored 56 points.
Not 25, not 30, 37.
Not 25, not 30, 56.
No doubt, another bunch of records. 56 points is the highest single-game score of the season, and now James is the oldest player to score at least 55 points and 10 rebounds in a single game, and the first player in history to score 50 points before and after the age of 21.
I watched the man on the phone screen arc through the top of the three big steps to rush to the basket, and then rushed through, I thought he would fail to make a layup, but he didn't, and he reflexively buckled one without turning his head. What a shocking moment, people are suddenly heroic, countless ancient poems gushed into the chest: the martyr was drunk in his twilight years and drunkenly picked up the lamp to see the sword dream back to blow the horn Company camp three hundred and sixty days a year is a horizontal go immediately Mo Dao Sang Yu evening for Xia Shang full of heaven who asked Lian Po old can still eat ...
Someone once asked James what motivated him to play at this age, and James replied, "Find a Jenn before every game." I need this. It seems that the Zhan Hei curative effect found before this game is a little too fierce, and Zhan Sister-in-law is full of praise: "Husband, where do you look like a king who has passed." ”
Whether Old Jan is a king or an inflated king, I have another piece of good news for you: now this bad old man has averaged 29.4 points per game, which is a short walk from the 29.5 points of the scorer Embiid. However, Old Zhan himself did not particularly care about this, and said in an interview after the game: "I care more about this game we won. ”
Speak sensibly. Because if this ball is not won, the 56 points and the previous so many games of 30+ losses are not fundamentally different, nothing more than the difference between toothbrushes and toilet brushes, but winning is different, because playing on the court is not to win what else can be for? Playing a game to win is 1, everything else is 0, without 1 there is no 0. This kind of stimulating metaphor will appear on many occasions, especially some of our leaders are very keen to describe the things that need to be emphasized as 1, but the more we listen, we will be a little confused, and find that many things are 1 on some occasions, and running to other occasions has become 0, which is elusive.
There are also people who like to chant "competitive sports dishes are the original sin", and now many comments have seen this kind of argument, seen more, a bit of a universal meaning. But I always have a little doubt about this neat and concise short sentence, as if the subtle and complex reality dilemma is as simple and clear as these 8 words, as if there is a chasm as clear as Anjaira, this side of the ditch, is the good player, the other side of the ditch, is the bad player.
Before the 56-point win, Old Zhan was obviously on the other side of the ditch, a bad player, because according to the standards of that chasm, he didn't win, does this kind of thing still have to be washed? And he can continue to cut high scores, which is even worse. As for what the Lakers are in, what the management is, what James should and can chase at this stage of his career, and what the chemistry between the players is, it is not in the scope. In general, I am always wary of this either-or mode of thinking and the theory of self-denial.
I thought about this problem when I wrote Harden two days ago, there has always been Sima Yi in this world, and some people pretend to be dead, and some people are strong. But if you remember, Sima Yi pretended to be dead and was very successful, everyone was very appreciative, called a traitor; Lian Po ate a bucket of rice, ten pounds of meat, was put on a horse, the momentum can not be described as not abundant, but how did people go back to describe it to King Zhao? "Now, indeed, the old general is very good at eating, but he has three arrows in one meal."
When King Zhao heard this, "I thought I was old, so I didn't call."
In fact, when I was a child, I had a little doubt about this allusion, although Lian Po sat for a while and pulled three times, but as long as people did not directly pull the kang three times, as long as it is normal to go to the toilet, it is entirely possible that it is just just a stomach, and it is very likely that it was before eating too much support, a bucket of rice in the Han Dynasty is about equal to the current 4 pounds of rice, a meal to eat 4 pounds of rice, for you you also pull. Not to mention that at that time, "Zhao yi was trapped in qin soldiers", there was a danger of national subjugation at any time, and now there was a fierce man who ate 4 kilograms of rice waiting to be summoned, and the thing between being able to eat and dilute was something that king Zhao gave up without investigation and research, which was very strange.
So what's the current state of the Lakers? Isn't it also the same "number trapped in the alliance", this sincere life and death of the autumn also, they still have James, why should the kings be the king of Zhao?
The Lakers, in Los Angeles, have always been known for being star-led, you have never heard of the success of the civilian Lakers, and after Kobe Bryant retired in 16 years, what stars are the Lakers willing to vote for? No, the homecoming party duo went to the Clippers, old Zhan is the first superstar to actively throw himself into the lake in 20 years, and then the thick eyebrows are the second, and it is a pity that he missed DeRozan, but you know, last summer, DeRozan and Weizhong were willing to come to the Lakers, although in the end for various reasons, the wrong person was selected, but it is enough to explain the problem, this problem is self-evident:
From the summer of 2019 to the present of 2022, Old Zhan is the starting point of this Lakers, and most likely, it is also the end of this team.
The reality is that even if there are many unsatisfactory circumstances, even if the final defeat still ends in failure, it is clear that the word "failure" cannot define the value of Old Zhan to this Lakers, let alone those who question his injury to the team on and off the court.
He's 37 years old, he plays well personally, but it's hard to lead the team to win, is this something worth criticizing?
Or think about it the other way around, the Lakers are really bad, but Old Zhan is the last bottom of this bad team, is this a shameful thing? Bare stomach is more shameful, right?
It is too easy for us to forgive a 17-year-old child for playing a good record but not being able to lead the team further, because for children we still have room to imagine, there is a better future, we do not forgive a 37-year-old athlete to do this now, because we are thinking about this problem out of inertia rather than reason, reason should tell us such a conclusion: man will not only grow, but also decline, he used to be able to do a lot, but now he can't do so much, Our satisfaction and expectations should have dropped, just as we wouldn't expect a 17-year-old to lead the team to the championship immediately.
The reason is very simple, and in fact, you have consciously recognized this truth subconsciously.
You parents can check it out for yourself. Yes, you will fall into rage at any time when you tutor your child's homework, but the next day you will still sit there and continue to refresh the upper limit of your patience, kindly telling your son "First set the chicken to X and then set the rabbit to 50-X and then think about where there is an equal relationship in this problem Don't fucking ask me why the chicken is in a cage with the rabbit and they fucking are in the same cage!" ”
But have you ever taught your parents to surf the Internet or take them to play a game of "Only Wolves"? What kind of attitude do you have? How much patience do you retain? Will you still be there the next day to go for hand-in-hand instruction to make sure they've learned?
You don't, because you have drawn a dark line in your mind, a line about the cost of time, a line about "hope" and "no more hope", a line of "possible reward" and "impossible to be rewarded", all of which ultimately point to an incomparably utilitarian and cruel realism.
But some people's attitude towards Old Zhan is completely different, as if this old man still has an endless future to chase, and if the pace is slower, he will be angry behind his back. This unrealistic way of thinking runs counter to the realism of most people in real life, and I honestly don't know why, maybe it's because they love James so much that they can't get out of his past achievements.
The most beautiful is the sunset red, if you can't become the champion of the national street dance competition at this age, you can become the king of community square dance, probably it is worth a little appreciation and praise.