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Dressed up as a retro logo and reminiscing about the glory of the old days, the team's only All-Star, De Zhangtai Murray, led the team to reverse the Jazz in the fourth quarter. With 1,336 wins, the first win for a manager in 75 years of NBA history has finally arrived.
The big Man Bolt was the first to run over and grab the shoulders of Popovich, who was silently on the sidelines, and then the children rushed over together. The white-haired old man was surrounded by less than 1 minute. He parted the crowd, without greeting, without speaking, and quickly disappeared into the aisle.
So, should Popovich raise his arms? Should Spurs' most loyal fans raise their arms? This is another great honor that belongs to the Spurs.
Maybe. Who knows. The heat of this ball is even far from catching up with the Lakers vs Wizards who are also ongoing, although the Lakers even lost to the Rockets. In the Internet age, such a thing does not explode, not even a hot search. The Spurs have never been a traffic password, and the former hegemony has long been buried. In the laws of competitive sports, when you don't win, who cares about you? What's more, the Spurs suffered another four-game losing streak last week, including a loss to the Kings and Hornets, and Popovich's record moment was already late, late but late.
When the 73-year-old Popovich finally overtook Nelson Sr. to become the most winning coach in NBA history, Duncan was driving his big car shop, Ginobili and the babies were in the mountains, about to be inducted into the U.S. Basketball Hall of Fame, and Parker was drinking red wine on the farm. Budenholzer tried to lead the team to defend the title at the Bucks, and Udoka came back to life in Boston. Too many of the comrades who used to build a great cause have gone away, including the spurs of the past. The Spurs made a lot of money before the trade deadline, and they completely straightened out Murray, who averaged nearly three doubles per game, and sent away White, who was cultivated with one hand. They all have interesting nicknames. Spurs fans call White White and Murray magic. It was as if he had the qualities that turned this team around.
Fifth-grader Murray was named an All-Star this season. It was the Spurs' first All-Star in three years. But looking at the rankings, they're 26-40, 12th in the West, holding hopes of reaching the playoffs, but that's about it. The twelfth in the west is a nice saying. Don't believe I change one, the fourth to last in the West, you feel it?
Spurs or Spurs? When old fans try to tell young people about Popovich's coaching level and art, it seems that there is no top hard goods to prove themselves, without Duncan, Popovich can not do it? Sometimes, you feel like they still have the same branding and traits, and you see their assist-to-turnover ratio, still number one in the league; the integrity they pursue, the control of fouls, looks like that team. They just don't have "that"—that" is Duncan, Ginobili, Leonard, a genius who can't be shaped by human beings.
But from another point of view, or that sentence, in the law of competitive sports, when you can't win, who cares about your unprincipled things? In this age of overwhelming traffic, do principles matter? When superstar Hu Shu can win, Hu Shu is the principle. Without superstars, Popovich can not only let the whole team run crazy with Murray, some balls Murray are thrown out when the sky is dark, his every move, accustomed to technology, even the ball shakes the shoulder, it is so like Wei Shao. 10 years ago, we joked that we gave West less to the Spurs, and didn't we kill Popovich? Now Murray looked like a little Wei Shao, and the old man applauded him. Murray was treated like Parker had never been treated before because he didn't have Duncan by his side.
This is fate on the stage of life, especially in the arena. Breaking grand records in the competitive world, or setting tall milestones, must take a long time to accumulate. And everyone has their own time limit for prosperity. When you break the record, you often say goodbye to your prime years and are no longer brave. The lifestyle now is much more lingering than it was in its prime.
You look at Kobe Bryant. When he surpassed Jordan's score on free throws in Minnesota, his shooting percentage was as miserable as the Lakers' record.
You see James. When the 37-year-old sprinted toward Abdul-Abdul-Jabbar's highest scoring record, people were keen to calculate how many times he had spread his hands in the game, no less than counting how many baskets Kobe had made.
But superstars are superstars, and they can create some famous moments for their own curtain. Coaches are different. Anything a coach does, strategies, principles, changes, and measures of value can only be reflected by athletes. That's why, even if your coach is Popovich, when you say goodbye to Duncan and are dumped by Leonard, when your winning percentage falls to the world and your principles look pale, you will hear this voice: Are you stupid? Let's go! What do you brag about, without Duncan, aren't you also not working?
I talked to Duan Xu, a KOL of a Spurs fan, and he told me that the Spurs fans who didn't scold the street because of "thinking of old feelings" had this plan: This season, it is enough to win 26 games, that is, to win until now. History is the first, and you can't win anywhere anyway. Then there was a disagreement, part of it said, just win enough, don't win anymore, hurry up, make a hard loss, and strive to get another duncan, and be a good man for 20 years.
The other part is more concerned about the old man's face. Although the old man had also been rotten 25 years ago, after all, Popovich at that time was not Popovich. Popovich can no longer be messed up, so he finishes the first victory in history, and after taking this year, he can retreat. This page is completely turned. When you turn this page, there is no psychological baggage, and you can mess it up. Strive to get another duncan, and be a good man for another 20 years.
Anyway, the ending is the same, old man, you should be at the station. We respect you, you're a good coach, you've been bringing the team for 25 years, don't bring it in the future.
Do you know? Will history remember? When the five-time NBA champion, the first-ever winning coach, ushered in his record, it was the context and reality he faced. Behind him, he has done a lot of merit, but he is already gone, and the earth is vast. With no friends around him, Popovich took a glass of wine at his favorite Italian restaurant on the famous riverside in San Antonio, wishing his wife, who died four years ago, peace in heaven and a time of never returning, and good luck with each of us.
Everyone has their own times. Even if you can still play with the new era, it may not make you feel comfortable. For example, Old Yang. I am a worker cultivated by traditional media, I can play with new media and self-media, but I don't like it. Popovich said shooting so many three-pointers is like a circus. According to this theory, the league today is full of circuses. It feels like a person standing outside a cage watching the monkeys, and slowly you find that there are more and more monkeys inside and fewer and fewer people outside. You look at them, and they look at you. When you are left with only yourself, you look around and suddenly ask yourself, who is the human and who is the monkey? Who is the minority and who is the freak that people think? When you think like this, your time is over.
Not long ago, after losing to the Bulls in Chicago to deRozan, Popovich said this: "You have to understand the fans, that's their logic. But if you put yourself in that position, if you're a coach or anybody on the team, you can't go over your players and tell them they have to lose. You can't do this. In any logic I can think of, this is not possible. So, you just keep playing well, keep coaching, keep doing what you have to do. If you still can't win and get the pick, then we're happy to get that draft pick. But it can't be because, you're not pushing them, you're not teaching them, you're not making them play better. ”
Thus, at the end of popovich's time, the Spurs were caught in a whirlpool of ups and downs.
If Spurs fans are really looking forward to Popovich's retirement, they are likely to be on the verge of doing so. If the Spurs change the club's philosophy after this and begin to believe in the process like Philadelphia or Russian City, embracing tomorrow with a completely rotten posture, there will be cheers as they run to that illusory tomorrow. Someone would jump and applaud and shout that it was dawn, as if they could really choose another Duncan. As long as Duncan, with his park and Ginobili, coupled with the false head and eight brains, cloud mountain fog cover, dizzy, vague language of those so-called system and culture of the thing, can not succeed?
At that time, if you are in any field that belongs to you, with your back to these cheers, not angry, not foolish, not resentful, you still believe what you believe, knock the spur hammer in your hand - believe that popovich left a hundred hammers, chisel rocks, the first 99 hammers are not traced, but the 99 hammers are the foundation of cognition, then add me.
Maybe we're all old, not as old as the old man. In the evening light, Popovich's figure stands, and at any time, he is the 1 of 1336. It has been three years since the 50-year-old Popovich first led the team to the championship.
Cang Tou smiled, and sure enough, he changed the human world.
1 team, 5 crowns, 25 years, 1336 wins
An ancient old man, an eternity